Michael Sohn

Mechanical Staff Scientist/Engineer

Indoor Environment Group

Electricity Markets & Policy Group

Leader, Sustainable Energy Systems Group

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems Department

Energy Analysis & Environmental Impacts Division

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

90R2002

1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

Office Location: 090-2014

[email protected]

Michael Sohn

Mike's research interests are in mathematical modeling of environmental systems and quality, uncertainty analysis, value-of-information decision analysis, water-energy integrated assessment, and sensor-data fusion. Mike has a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering and an MS degree in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University. He also has MS and BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA. Mike is a California-licensed Professional Engineer (Civil), and has worked at an environmental engineering firm where he conducted environmental health risk assessments. He is Leader of the Sustainable Energy Systems Group and former Leader of the Airflow and Pollutant Transport Group (Indoor Environment Dept.). Mike has been at LBNL since 1998. Mike's personal website is uncertainty.lbl.gov.

Awards

May 2004

Federal Laboratory Consortium Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer

Ashok Gadgil, Phil Price, Tracy Thatcher, Michael Sohn, David Lorenzetti, Rengie Chan, Emily Wood, Woody Delp, Richard Sextro, Elizabeth Finlayson, Buvaneswari Jayaraman, Sheng-Chieh Chang, Suengbae Hong, and Sondra Jarvis

Publications

2005

Chan, Wanyu R, William W Nazaroff, Phillip N Price, Michael D Sohn, and Ashok J Gadgil. "Analyzing a database of residential air leakage in the United States." Atmospheric Environment 39.19 (2005) 3445 - 3455.

2004

Price, Phillip N, Sheng-Chieh Chang, and Michael D Sohn. Characterizing buildings for airflow models: What should we measure?. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2004.

Apte, Michael G, Lara A Gundel, S. Katharine Hammond, Raymond L Dod, Marion L Russell, Brett C Singer, Michael D Sohn, Douglas P Sullivan, Gee-Minn Chang, and Richard G Sextro. Indoor measurements of environmental tobacco smoke. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2004.

Sohn, Michael D, Thomas E McKone, and Jerry N Blancato. "Reconstructing Population Exposures from Dose Biomarkers: Inhalation of Trichloroethylene (TCE) as a Case Study." Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology 14 (2004) 204-213.

Maddalena, Randy L, Thomas E McKone, and Michael D Sohn. "Standardized Approach for Developing Probabilistic Exposure Factor Distributions." Risk Analysis 24 (2004) 1185-1199.

2003

Price, Phillip N, Michael D Sohn, Ashok J Gadgil, William W Delp, David M Lorenzetti, Elizabeth U Finlayson, Tracy L Thatcher, Richard G Sextro, Elisabeth A Derby, and Sondra A Jarvis. Protecting Buildings From a Biological or Chemical Attack: actions to take before or during a release. 2003.

Sohn, Michael D, Richard G Sextro, Ashok J Gadgil, and Joan M Daisey. "Responding to Sudden Pollutant Releases in Office Buildings: 1. Framework and Analysis Tools." Indoor Air 13 (2003) 267-276.

2002

Price, Phillip N, William W Delp, Michael D Sohn, Tracy L Thatcher, David M Lorenzetti, Richard G Sextro, Ashok J Gadgil, Elisabeth A Derby, and Sondra A Jarvis. "Advice for first responders to a building during a chemical or biological attack." (2002).

McKone, Thomas E, Tracy L Thatcher, William J Fisk, Richard G Sextro, Michael D Sohn, William W Delp, and William J Riley. "Factors affecting the concentration of outdoor particles indoors: existing data and data needs." Proceedings of the Indoor Air 2002 Conference, Monterey, CA 2002: 176-181.

Price, Phillip N, David M Lorenzetti, Ashok J Gadgil, Michael D Sohn, William W Delp, and Sondra A Jarvis. Information for first responders to a chemical or biological attack. 2002.

Sextro, Richard G, David M Lorenzetti, Michael D Sohn, and Tracy L Thatcher. "Modeling the spread of anthrax in buildings." Proceedings of the Indoor Air 2002 Conference, Monterey, CA 2002: 506-511.

Sohn, Michael D, Pamela Reynolds, Navtej Singh, and Ashok J Gadgil. "Rapidly locating and characterizing pollutant releases in buildings: An application of Bayesian data analysis." Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association 52.12 (2002) 1422-1432.

Sohn, Michael D, Pamela Reynolds, Ashok J Gadgil, and Richard G Sextro. "Rapidly Locating Sources And Predicting Contaminant Dispersion In Buildings." Proceedings of the Indoor Air 2002 Conference, Monterey, CA 2002: 211-216.

2001

Thatcher, Tracy L, Thomas E McKone, William J Fisk, Michael D Sohn, William W Delp, William J Riley, and Richard G Sextro. Factors Affecting the Concentration of Outdoor Particles Indoors (COPI): Identification of Data Needs and Existing Data. 2001. LBNL-49321.

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Sohn, Michael D, Thomas E McKone, Mark L Rigas, Jerry N Blancato, and Frederick W Power. Reconstructing exposure scenarios using dose biomarkers: An application of Bayesian uncertainty analysis. 2001. LBNL-51256.

2000

Sohn, Michael D, Mitchell J Small, and Marina Pantazidou. "Reducing uncertainty in site characterization using Bayes Monte Carlo methods." Journal of Environmental Engineering 126.10 (2000) 893-902.

Lorenzetti, David M, and Michael D Sohn. "Improving Speed and Robustness of the COMIS Solver." Proceedings of the RoomVent 2000,7th International Conference on Air Distribution in Rooms, Reading, UK 2000: 241-246.

1999

Sohn, Michael D, Joan M Daisey, and Helmut E Feustel. "Characterizing indoor airflow and pollutant transport using simulation modeling for prototypical buildings. 1. Office buildings." Proceedings of the Indoor Air '99, Edinburgh, Scotland 1999: 719-724.

Sohn, Michael D, Alvin CK Lai, Brian V Smith, Richard G Sextro, Helmut E Feustel, and William W Nazaroff. "Modeling aerosol behavior in multizone indoor environments." Proceedings of the Indoor Air '99, Edinburgh, Scotland 1999: 785-790.

1998

Sohn, Michael D, and Mitchell J Small. "Parameter estimation of unknown air exchange rates and effective mixing volumes from tracer gas measurements for complex multi-zone indoor air models." Building and Environment 34.3 (1998) 293 - 303.

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