M. Talat Odman

M. Talat Odman is a Regents' Researcher in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He specializes in atmospheric chemistry, air pollution meteorology, and air quality modeling, with a focus on wildland fires and their environmental impacts.

Research Interests:

• Wildland fire and prescribed fire impacts on air quality
• Computational fluid dynamics for environmental applications
• High-performance computing in air quality simulations
• Numerical methods and adaptive grid models (e.g., Daysmoke, CMAQ)

Scientific Awards:

• Regents' Researcher (2023), awarded by the University System of Georgia

Grants:

• Received a $1M EPA grant (2021) to study prescribed fire emissions in Southern Georgia and Alabama