Dr. Kerry Kelly of University of Utah

Biography:

Dr. Kelly is a Chemical and Environmental Engineer and Assistant Professor at the University of Utah specializing in the links between energy, air quality and human health.  Her research is motivated by local and regional air-­quality challenges along the Wasatch Front.

Dr. Kelly co-­founded the University of Utah’s Program for Air Quality, Health and Society – a multidisciplinary program which facilitates collaborations between health sciences, engineering and science, with a goal of bringing together researchers to understand and address local air quality challenges.  Dr. Kelly presents regularly to community groups and classrooms to discuss local air quality challenges and potential solutions.  She led the development of BadAirDay: Play it Like UCAIR, BadAirDay.org; an air quality video game aimed at teaching students about how policy and individual decisions affect local air quality. She plays a key role two complementary National Science Foundation sponsored projects to develop the next-generation of low-cost particulate matter sensors, to develop real-time estimates of particulate matter concentration and uncertainty, and to help engage high-school and middle-school students as citizen scientists, airu.coe.utah.edu and www.aqandu.org.

Among her notable achievements, Dr. Kelly served 8 years on Utah’s Air Quality Board, and she currently chairs Utah’s Air Quality Policy Board.  She performed ground-breaking work that led to an improved understanding and subsequent policy solutions to address the sources of particulate matter during winter-time inversions along the Wasatch Front.   

Address:Salt Lake City, Utah, United States