Contact Information


Patrick De Luca, Systems Administrator/Sessional Faculty,
School of Geography & Earth Sciences

Office: Burke Science Building, Rm 342B
Tel: (905) 525-9140 ext. 27786
Fax: (905) 546-0463
Email: delucapf@mcmaster.ca

Curriculum Vitae

Centre for Spatial Analysis

GIS Laboratory

 

 Patrick DeLuca

Patrick De Luca

Research Interests

  • Quantitative methods in Geography and Geographical Information Systems
  • Air Quality Monitoring, Modeling and Mapping
  • Regional variations in quality of health and health care
  • Environment and Health

 

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Publications

Peer Reviewed Monographs
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Conference Proceedings
Unpublished Technical Reports

 

Peer-Reviewed Monographs

Krewski, D, Jerret, M, Burnett, RT, Ma, R, Hughes, E, Shi, Y, Turner, MC, Pope, CA, Thurston, G, Calle, E, Thun, MJ, Beckerman, B, DeLuca, PF, Finkelstein, N, Ito, K, Moore, DK, Newbold, KB, Ramsay, T, Ross, Z, Shin, H and Tempalski, B, (2009).  Extended Follow-up and Spatial Analysis of the American Cancer Society Study Linking Air Pollutions and Mortality.  Research Report Health Effects Institute May (140): 5 – 114; discussion 115-36.

 

Jerrett, M, DeLuca, PF, Finkelstein, N. Phase II: Sensitivity Analysis (Chapters 1,3 and 4). In Krewski, D, Burnett, RT, Goldberg, MS, Hoover, K, Siemiatycki, J, Jerrett, M, Abrahamowicz, M, White, WH. (2000). Reanalysis of the Harvard Six Cities Study and the American Cancer Society Study of Particulate Air Pollution and Mortality.

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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Kanaroglou, PS, Adams, MD, DeLuca, PF, Corr, D, Sohel, N (2012). Sulfur Dioxide Landuse Regression Model: An Application to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.  Atmospheric Environment (Submitted).

DeLuca, PF, Buist, S, Johnston, N (2012).  Engaging Communities in Health System Change – The Code Red Project in Hamilton, Canada. Social Indicators Research, 108(2):317-327.

Adams, MD, DeLuca, PF, Corr, D, Kanaroglou, PS (2012). Mobile Air Monitoring: Measuring Change in Air Quality in the City of Hamilton, 2005 – 2010. Social Indicators Research 108(2):351-364.

DeLuca, PF, Corr, D, Wallace, J, Kanaroglou, P (2012). Effective Mitigation Efforts to Reduce Road Dust near industrial sites: Assessment by Mobile Pollution Surveys. Journal of Environmental Management 98:112-118.

Merchant, AT, DeLuca, PF, Shubair, M, Emili, J, Kanaroglou, P. (2011). Local data for obesity prevention: using national datasets. Professional Geographer 63(4): 550-559.

Sofowote, UM, Hung, H, Rastogi, AK, Westgate, JN, DeLuca, PF, Su, Y, McCarry, BE (2011).  Assessing the Long Range Transport of PAHs to a Sub-Arctic Site using Positive Matrix Factorization and Potential Source Contribution Function. Atmospheric Environment, 45: 967-976.

Wallace, J, Corr, D, DeLuca, P, Kanaroglou, P, McCarry, B (2009). Mobile monitoring of air pollution in cities: the case of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 11(5): 998‐1003.

DeLuca, PF, Kanaroglou, PS (2008). Effects of alternative point pattern geocoding procedures of health data on first and second order statistical measures. Journal of Spatial Science 53(1):131-141

Newbold, KB, DeLuca, P (2007). Short-Term Residential Changes To Toronto’s Immigrant Communities: Evidence From LSIC Wave 1. Urban Geography, 28(7):635-656.

Jerrett M, Newbold KB, Burnett RT, Thurston G, Lall R, Pope CA III, Ma R, DeLuca P, Thun MJ, Calle EE, Krewski D (2007). Geographies of uncertainty in the health benefits of air quality improvements. Stochastic Environmental Research & Risk Assessment. 21:511-522.

Jerrett, ML, Buzzelli, M, Burnett, R, DeLuca, PF (2005). Particulate air pollution, social confounders and mortality in small areas of an industrial city. Social Science and Medicine. 60(2005): 2845 – 2863.

Jerrett, ML, Burnett, R, Willis, A, Krewski, D, Goldberg, MS, DeLuca, PF, Finkelstein, N (2003). Spatial analysis of the air pollution-mortality relationship in the context of ecologic confounders. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health. 66(16-19): 1735-1778.

Finkelstein, MM, Jerrett, ML, DeLuca, PF, Finkelstein, N, Verma, D, Chapman, K, Sears, M (2003). Environmental Justice: A Cohort Study of Income, Air Pollution and Mortality. Canadian Medical Association Journal. 169(5): 397-402

Elliott, SJ, Eyles, JD, DeLuca, PF (2001). Mapping Health in the Great Lakes Areas of Concern: A Policy Friendly Tool for Decision-Makers. Environmental Health Perspectives. 109(S6):817-826.

Buliung, RN, DeLuca, PF (2000). Spatial patterns on demand for education at McMaster University. Journal of Geographic

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Conference Proceedings

DeLuca, PF, Elliott, SJ, Eyles, J, Carpenter, DO, Le, L. Cross-Border Comparisons of Environment and Health: Mapping Health in the Great Lakes Areas of Concern in Ontario and New York State.

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Unpublished Technical Reports

DeLuca, PF, Benoit, C. CALINE+ Technical Report and User Guide: An enhancement of CALINE-3 for measurement of carbon monoxide emissions integrating various data sets. Centre for Spatial Analysis, McMaster University, June 2007.

Muggah, H, Elliott, S, Eyles, J, Kanaroglou, P, Wainman, B, DeLuca, P, Burra, T, Haalboom B, MacKinnon, G, Mersereau, H, Odo, T, Routledge, M. Impact of the Tar Ponds / Coke Ovens Site on Reproductive and Psychosocial Health on Sydney Area Residents, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Summary Report to Health Canada. Summary of Completed Research with Analysis and Maps, 85 pages, May, 2005.

Buliung, R, Kanaroglu, PS, DeLuca, PF, Maynard, GS. Geodemographic Marketing and Student Recruitment. The Enrollment Management Committee, McMaster University. September, 2000.

Eyles, J, Elliott, SJ, DeLuca, PF. IJC Health Mapping Project: Analysis and Commentary of 17 Health Canada Reports. International Joint Commision. October, 2000.

Anderson, WP, Kanaroglou, PS, Brown, M, DeLuca, PF. Transportation and the US Space Economy, prepared for the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1998.

 

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Teaching

 

McMaster University Earth Sc/Envir Sc/Geog 2GI3 I.A.
McMaster University Envir Sc/Geog 2MB3 I.A.
McMaster University Earth Sc/Envir Sc/Geog 3GI3 Sessional Lecturer
McMaster University Envir Sc/Geog 3SA3 Sessional Lecturer
McMaster University Earth Sc/Envir Sc/Geog 4GI3 I.A

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Affliations

  • American Association of Geographers (AAG)
  • Geographic Information Science and Systems Specialty Group of the AAG
  • Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG)

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Research

  • Environment and Health
  • Air Quality Monitoring, Modeling and Mapping
  • Regional variations in quality of health and health care
  • Quantitative methods in Geography and Geographical Information Systems

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Service

  • Member of Faculty of Science Dean Search Committee (2013)
  • Reviewer: International journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2013)
  • Member of School of Geography & Earth Science Director Search Committee (2012)
  • Member of review team assessing the services and collections of the LloydReeds Map Collection (2011)
  • Reviewer: 2 articles for International Journal of Environmental Health Research (2011)
  • Reviewer: 2 articles for Journal of Geographical Systems (2010)

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