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Erica Bickford
Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1710 University Ave., Room 144
Madison, WI 53726
608-265-4113 fax
ebickford@wisc.edu
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Erica Bickford is a Ph.D. candidate in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, working with Prof. Tracey Holloway. Erica's research examines impacts of transportation - especially freight - on air pollution and climate change. She employs atmospheric models to investigate policy options for improving air quality, focusing on realistic, cost-effective transport solutions. In addition to her Ph.D. in Environment & Resources, Erica is pursuing certificates in Transportation Management and Policy (TMP) - for which she serves as Student Representative, connecting students and the faculty, and Air Resources Management (ARM). Erica earned an M.S. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from UW-Madison in 2008, and a B.S. in Ecology and Environmental Science from the University of Maine in 2006.
With policy as a major focus of her work, Erica was honored to participate in the 2010 Eno Leadership Development Conference - a transportation policy workshop in Washington, DC, and the 2010 American Meteorological Society's Summer Policy Colloquium also in Washington. In summer 2009, Erica participated in the prestigious International Institute for Applied Systems Analsysis' (IIASA) Young Scientists Summer Program in Vienna, Austria. While at IIASA, she worked with Dr. Jens Borken-Kleefeld analyzing the potential for new vehicle technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the U.S. on-road transportation sector, and conducting a cost-benefit sensitivity study for technology costs with respect to uncertain future fuel prices.
Erica's recently completed research project evaluating air quality impacts from freight modal shifts-truck to rail-in the 
upper Midwestern U.S. has been featured in press releases around the web (UW, Science Daily, others). She is now working on using satellite retrievals from the NASA/KNMI Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) to inform spatial patterns of surface freight activity (see figure) and emissions inventories, and using satellite observations to validate CMAQ-modeled NO2 total column densities. For this project Erica uses the FHWA's Freight Analysis Framework (FAF) data, the EPA's MOVES model, and GIS to build a roadway-level diesel truck emissions inventory, SMOKE to process the emissions, and CMAQ to model air quality. Funding for both projects comes from the National Center for Freight & Infrastructure Research & Education (CFIRE).
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