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Potosnak Lab (CSH-011)

Summary 🟡 ~

  • Owner Unit: College of Science and Health
  • Sub-unit: Environmental Science and Studies
  • Content Type: center
  • Campus/Location: Lincoln Park (McGowan South 403J)
  • Last Verified: July 1, 2026

Description & capabilities

Faculty research lab studying plant–atmosphere interactions, biogenic volatile organic compound (BVOC) fluxes, urban air-quality sensing, and prescribed-fire smoke emissions. Research includes low-cost wearable and field environmental sensors, portable relaxed-eddy-accumulation (REA) instrumentation, and high-altitude balloon field projects.

Access status

Verification

  • Status: likely (~)
  • Confidence: 82/100
  • Rationale: Legacy evidence aligned with kernel provenance (depaul/XTR-000078); primary source: https://www.depaul.edu/faculty/mark-j-potosnak
  • Last verified: 2026-07-01
  • Evidence:
  • Mark J. Potosnak — Professor, Environmental Science and Studies; Potosnak Lab research on plant–atmosphere interactions and urban air-quality sensing. (https://www.depaul.edu/faculty/mark-j-potosnak)
  • Supplementary lab reference: http://potosnak.weebly.com/

Equipment

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Category Specific equipment
Spectrometers Low-cost wearable and field air-quality PM sensors
Field audio recorders and mixers Portable relaxed eddy accumulation (REA) flux systems
High-altitude ballooning High-altitude balloon field-instrumentation packages

Related equipment categories

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Resource Notes
CSH-009 STEM Center / Space Grant ballooning program — related HAB launch and payload coordination

Source: Potosnak Lab site and publications (May 2026). Last verified: July 29, 2026.

Contacts (resource-level)

Last verified: May 30, 2026.

People & contacts

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Source URL

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Documented Relationships

Environmental-science research group in McGowan complex; uses shared McGowan instrumentation (CSH-001) and building infrastructure (CSH-003).

Linked Relationship IDs

CHE 318

Documented connections

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Publications

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Sources

  1. gazetteer hit in OpenAthens PDF. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source

Documented connections

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Publications

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Sources

  1. gazetteer hit in OpenAthens PDF. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source

Notes

Faculty research lab profile split from McGowan building aggregate (May 2026).