Publications By E. R. Crutcher

Bradley Prezant & Russ Crutcher Assessing Wildfire and Other Indoor Particle Contamination.

PARTIAL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

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BY E. R. CRUTCHER

  • 2020 “Detecting Wildfire Emissions in the Indoor Environment” (in peer review)

  • 2020 “Thermally Modified Calcium Oxalate Phytoliths as Markers for Biomass Fire Sources”, THE MICROSCOPE, vol. 68, no. 1, 2020 (in press)

  • 2019 “SMALL PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION”, Class Manual Update

  • 2019 “Calcium Oxalate Phytoliths in Environmental Samples”, THE MICROSCOPE, vol. 67, no. 1, pp 3-11, 2019.

  • 2018 “Wildfire Particle Source Identification: Assemblage Analysis”, AIHAce Conference, Philadelphia

  • 2018 “The Analysis of Wildfire Debris in Buildings: Assemblage Analysis”, AIHAce Conference, Philadelphia

  • 2017 “AIHA Technical Guide for Wildfire Impact Assessments” American Industrial Hygiene Association

  • 2017 “Council-certified Fire and Smoke Damage (CFSx) Certification Program”, American Council of Accredited Certification

  • 2016 “Wildfire Smoke Exposure: A Comparative Study Between Two Analytical Approaches; Particle Assemblage Analysis and Soot, Char, and Ash Analysis”,  Wildfire Smoke Exposure

  • 2016 “Oil Power Factor Mysteries”, US-TechCon, Albuquerque, NM, Feb. 23-25

  • 2015 “Assessing Wildfire Exposure in Homes near Wildfires”, Assessing Wildfire Exposure in Homes near Wildfires

  • 2015 “Assessing Wildfire Exposure in Homes near Wildfires”, Healthy Building Conference, Boulder, CO, July 19-20.

  • 2015 “Polar Compounds: System Integrity and Diagnostic Applications”, US-TechCon, Sacramento, CA, February 17-19

  • 2014 “Organic Contaminants and Premature Failure in Transformers and Bushings”, US-TechCon, Pheonix, AZ, February 3-6

  • 2013 “High Power Factors and Contaminants in Transformer Oil”, US-TechCon, Feb 12, Charlotte, NC 2013 “Fires Signature”, Presentation for Allstate Insurance Co. 2012 “Evidence of Insulation Aging in Transformer Oil”, Canadian-TechCon, Winnipeg, CA

  • 2012 “Premature Failure of Electrical Equipment and Oil Analysis”, US-TechCon, Chicago, IL 2011 “Premature Failure of Electrical Equipment and Oil Analysis”, US-TechCon, Jacksonville, FL

  • 2011 Health Complaints and Environmental Glass Fiber, Indoor Air

  • 2011 Conference, Paper #81, Austin, TX, 2011.

  • 2010 “Corrosive Sulfur Testing”, US-TechCon, Jacksonville, FL

  • 2009  “Copper Migration: Causes and Solutions”, Euro-TechCon,UK

  • 2009  “Corrosive Sulfur Testing”, Euro-TechCon, November, Stretton,UK

  • 2009  “Copper Mobility and Failure in Electrical Equipment-It is not Corrosive
    Sulfur”,Proceedings of Euro-TechCon, November, Stretton, UK

  • 2009  “Conductive Paths in Paper Insulation”, TechCon-Asia, May, Sidney,Australia

  • 2009 “Copper Mobility and Sulfur”, TechCon-US, February, San Diego, CA, USA

  • 2008  “Copper Mobility and Sulfur in Electrical Equipment”, Euro-TechCon,November,Liverpool, UK

  • 2008  “Meaning of Particles in Transformer Oil”, JST Conference, October, LosAngles,CA, USA

  • 2008  “Health & Green Buildings”, ENERGY/FACILITIES CONNECTIONS, Leavenworth, WA, May 23, 2008

  • 2008  “Unusual Environmental Problems”, Washington State Indoor Air Quality Association, March, Seattle, WA

  • 2007   Particles and Health: Environmental Forensic Analysis, PIHA, October 21, Louisville, KY

  • 2007   Particles and Health: Environmental Forensic Analysis, AIHA, June 2, Philadelphia, PA

  • 2006  “Particles, Size Distributions, and Health Complaints”, Northwest Occupational. Health Conference, Oct. 26, Wenatchee, WA

  • 2006  “The Human Being as a Particle Sampling Devise”, Northwest Occupational Health Conference, Oct. 26, Wenatchee, WA

  • 2006  “Paint Induced Elevation of Oil Power Factor in Electrical Equipment”, Doble Conference, April 11, Boston, MA

  • 2006  “Why Schools Are Different: The Environmental Challenge of the Classroom

  • Environment”, Washington Education Association, May 18, Federal Way,

  • WA 2006  “Oil Soluble Contaminants from Materials Used in Electrical Equipment”,US-TechCon, February 6-7, Scottsdale, Arizona

  • 2006  “Health and Health Complaints in Schools”, Scarr Center Conference, January 18,Redmond, WA

  • 2005  “Health and Health Complaints and IEQ”, Healthy Indoor Environments Conference, October 13-14, Kansas City, KS

  • 2005  “Particles and IEQ”, Healthy Indoor Environments Conference, October 13-14, Kansas City, KS

  • 2005   Particles and Health: Environmental Forensic Analysis, PIHA, October 22, Denver, CO

  • 2005   Particles and Health: Environmental Forensic Analysis, AIHA, May 22, Anaheim, CA

  • 2005  “Insulation Oil: Data Storage Medium”, Asia-Pacific TechCon, May , Sydney, Australia

  • 2005  “Death by a Thousand Cuts”, US-TechCon, February , San Diego, CA

  • 2005  “LTC’s with High Cholesterol”, US-TechCon, February , San Diego, CA

  • 2004 “Mechanisms of Coking: Monitoring the Coking Potential”, EPRI, October 14, Charleston, NC

  • 2004  “Particles and the Forensic Assessment of Equipment Condition”, Asia-Pacific TechCon, September, Australia

  • 2003  “Identification of Indoor Particles by Analytical Light Microscopy”, 2003

  • 2002  “Forensic Failure Analysis:  How Materials Fail in Load Tap Changers”, IEEE Conference, October

  • 2002  “Event Generated Metal Particles and Equipment Diagnosis”, Euro-TechCon, Oct. 1-3, Birmingham, UK

  • 2002 “Mechanism of Coking in Load Tap Changers:  A Status Report”, EPRI

  • Conference, February,  2002 “The Failure Cascade, Part II: Microscopical Evidence and the Failure AnalysisTeam”, US-TechCon, February

  • 2001  “The Failure Cascade, Part I: Microscopical Evidence of the Root Cause”, US-TechCon, February ,

  • 1999 “Application of Optical Microscopy to Condition Appraisal of High Voltage Equipment”, TechCon 99, Feb. 18.

  • 1998 “Microscopy of Indoor Environmental Particles”, Northwest Occupational Health.Conference, Seattle, WA, Oct. 8

  • 1997  “Microscopy as a Tool for the Elucidation of High Voltage Equipment Problems:Case Histories”,  TechCon 97, Feb. 13.

  • 1997  “Surface Particles and Environmental Quality”, Graduate Seminar, Montana Technical Institute, Butte, MT.

  • 1996  “Solving Problems in the Electrical Power Industry Using Light Microscopy”, TechCon 96, Feb. 17.

  • 1993 “The Characterization of Particles on Spacecraft Returned from Orbit”,  Particles on Surfaces, Marcel Dekker, Inc., pp. 219-252, 1995.

  • 1992 “Up-Date on Bulk Asbestos Analysis”,  Minnesota Microscopy Association, St.Paul, MN.

  • 1992 “Contamination on LDEF:  Sources, Distribution, and History”, 2nd Post-Retrieval LDEF Symposium, NASA Publication.

  • 1992 “Identification of House Mites and Their Fecal Material”, AOAC International,Northwest North American Conference, Olympia Washington.

  • 1991 “Results of Examination of Silvered Teflon from the Long Duration ExposureFacility (LDEF)”,  LDEF–69 Months in Space: First Post-Retrieval Symposium,June 2-8, NASA CP 3134, 847-859.

  • 1991 “Migration and Generation of Contaminants from Launch Through Recovery:LDEF Case History,  LDEF–69 Months in Space: First Post-RetrievalSymposium, June 2-8, NASA CP 3134, 121-140.

  • 1991 “Particle Types and Sources Associated with LDEF”,  LDEF–69 Months inSpace: First Post-Retrieval Symposium, June 2-8, NASA CP 3134, 101-120. 1991 “Quantification of Contaminants Associated with LDEF”,  LDEF–69 Months in Space: First Post-Retrieval Symposium, June 2-8, NASA CP 3134, 141-154.

  • 1991 “Silver Teflon Blanket: LDEF Tray C-08,  LDEF–69 Months in Space: First Post-Retrieval  Symposium, June 2-8, NASA CP 3134, 861-874.

  • 1991 “New Developments in the Quantification of Asbestos in Bulk Samples”, AOAC International,  Northwest North American Conference, Olympia Washington.

  • 1990  Preliminary Report on Contamination Control for the LDEF Satellite, NASA Langley Publication.

  • 1990 “Introduction to Chemical Microscopy”, AOAC International,  Northwest North American Conference, Olympia Washington.

  • 1989 “An Introduction to Phase Contrast and Phase Contrast Dispersion Staining”, to be published

  • 1988  “Unusual Asbestiform Minerals in Commercial Environments”, Northwest Chapter of Association of Official Analytical Chemists Annual Technical Meeting.

  • 1988  “Small Particle Identification Using Light Microscopy”, Institute of Environmental Sciences Specialty Conference, Longbeach, CA.

  • 1986  Feasibility Study of Receptor Modeling for Apportioning Utility Contributions to Air Constituents, Deposition Quality, and Light Extinction, Electric Power Research Institute Publication.

  • 1986  Analytical Light Microscopy, Textbook for Optical Properties of Materials Class, University of Washington.

  • 1984  Bulk Asbestos Analysis, Textbook of Bulk Asbestos Analysis Class, Microlab Northwest.

  • 1984  “Determination of the Cleanliness of Surfaces”, Institute of Environmental Sciences Specialty Conference, Tualatin, OR.

  • 1983  “Detection of Contaminants”,  Institute of Environmental Sciences Specialty Conference, Seattle, WA.

  • 1983  “Analysis of Contaminants:  Elements, Compounds, Sources, and Properties”, Institute of Environmental Sciences Specialty Conference, Seattle, WA.

  • 1983  Interlaboratory Comparison of Receptor Model Results for Houston Aerosol, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency Specialty Conference on Atmospheric Particulate Analysis (Quail Roost II).

  • 1983 Contamination Control Microscopy, Tutorial and Publication at the

  • 1983 Annual Technical Meeting of the Inst. Envir. Sci.

  • 1983   “Metal in oil analysis using analytical light microscopy”, Doble Conference.

  • 1982 “Light microscopy as an analytical approach to receptor modeling”, Specialty Conference: Receptor Models Applied to Contemporary Pollution Problems, APCA, pp. 266-284.

  • 1982  “Quantitative Optical Microscopical Analysis”,  Environmental Protection Agency Specialty Conference on Atmospheric Particulate Analysis (Quail Roost II).

  • 1982 “The identification of particulate contamination in insulation oil”, Proceedings of Inst. Envir. Sci..

  • 1982  “Automatic Image Analysis as a Particle Counting Technique”, Annual Technical Meeting of the Inst. Envir. Sci.

  • 1982  “The Selection of Optical Criteria for the Identification of Airborne Particulate”, Annual Technical Meeting of the American Chemical Society.

  • 1981 “How Particulate Contaminants are Identified Using the Light Microscope”, Proceedings of Inst. Envir. Sci., 1981.

  • 1981  “The Selection of Optical Classification Criteria for the Quantitative Light Microscopical Analysis of Complex Powders”, American Chemical Society Pacific Conference.

  • 1981  “Optical Microscopy:  An Important Tool for Particulate Receptor Source Apportionment”, Annual Technical Meeting Proceedings of the Air Pollution Control Association (APCA).

  • 1980  “Teaching Analytical Light Microscopy in a Contamination Control Laboratory”, Proceedings of the Annual Technical Meeting of the Inst. Envir. Sci.,pp. 219-23, May 12-14, Philadelphia, PA.

  • 1980  “Problems with the Optical Microscopic Identification and Quantification of Asbestos”, Annual Technical Meeting Proceedings of the Air Pollution Control Association (APCA).

  • 1980  “Three Legal Actions and Optical Microscopy”, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency Specialty Conference on Atmospheric Particulate Analysis (Quail Roost I).

  • 1980  “Review of ‘Environmental Pollutants: Detection and Measurement’, ed. Y. Taft”,   Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 23, No. 5. 1979  “A Formalized Mathematical Evaluation of Error in Quantitative Optical Microscopy”,  Proceedings of Inst. Envir. Sci.

  • 1979  “A Standardized Approach to Airborne Pollution Analysis Using Quantitative Optical Microscopy”, Proceedings of Inst. Envir. Sci.

  • 1979 “Interpretation of Flight Collected Contamination Data for AIMP-D, AIMP-E, IMP-I, and NTS-2 Satellites”, NASA Presentation.

  • 1978 “Assemblage Analysis — Identification of Contamination Sources”, 2nd Spacecraft Contamination Control Conf.

  • 1978 “Estimation of error in quantitative microscopic analysis of compounds”, 4th International Symposium on Contamination Control, Washington, D.C..

  • 1977 “The role of light microscopy in aerospace analytical laboratories”, Proceedings of Inst. Envir. Sci..

  • 1976  Analytical Light Microscopy:  Theory”, Boeing Document D180-20196-1

  • 1976  “Analytical Methods in Optical Microscopy”, Boeing Document D180-20196-2

  • 1975  “Combined Environmental Effects on Polymers”, Proceedings of the National Space Simulation Symposium.

  • 1975  “Optical and Density Study of Airborne Particulate in the Duwamish Basin”, Boeing Document D180-18611-1

  • 1974  “Dielectric Failure and Particle Generation in an Orbital Environment”, Boeing Document D180-18611-1

  • 1973  “Forensic Applications of Pollen Analysis”, Northwest Association of Forensic Scientists

  • 1972  “Genetics and Fingerprints, Forensic Applications”, International Association for Identification, Western Canada and Northwest U.S. Chapter.

  • 1972  “Evidence Handling, Standard Operating Procedure”, Training Guide for Bellevue Police Department.

  • 1971  “Fingerprints as Evidence:  Their Protection, Documentation, and Collection”, Training Guide for Bellevue Police Department.