Alfred Hodgson, research director at Berkeley Analytical Associates LLC, Richmond, California, has received the Award of Merit from ASTM International Committee D22 on Air Quality. The Award of Merit, which includes the title of fellow, is ASTM’s highest organizational recognition for individual contributions to standards activities.

Committee D22 honored Hodgson for his exceptional contributions to the development and promotion of ASTM air quality standards and for his exemplary leadership as chairman of D22.05 on Indoor Air, one of D22’s largest subcommittees. The committee also recognized his work with an Award of Appreciation in 2011. Hodgson has been a member of ASTM International since 1990.

Hodgson’s career has focused on the sources of organic chemical pollutants in the indoor environment and on studies of indoor pollutant source dynamics and chemistry. His federal and state funded projects have included children’s exposure to traffic-related emissions and the development of techniques for reducing sources of volatile organic chemicals in homes and schools.

A graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he received a B.A. in zoology, Hodgson co-founded Berkeley Analytical Associates in 1989 while working as a staff scientist in the indoor environment department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California. He left the lab in 2007 to concentrate fully on Berkeley Analytical.

Hodgson has authored/co-authored more than 70 peer-reviewed research publications and research reports in his field. He is also a member of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ).

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