Sentences with phrase «air quality research»

* Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Center for Health and the Environment, Air Quality Research Center, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine and Departments of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California, Davis, California 95616 - 8732 * Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Center for Health and the Environment, Air Quality Research Center, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine and Departments of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California, Davis, California 95616 - 8732.

This allows for unprecedented insight in ship emission studies, far surpassing the level of knowledge available from most other traffic sectors or what has been previously available for the air quality research.

Labs on the hit list include an air quality research center in Ames, Iowa, an acoustics laboratory in Oxford, Mississippi, and a tiny Utah center that studies «locoweeds,» plants that are toxic to livestock.

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An immense cloud of air pollution hanging over a city he loved, Johannesburg, inspired computer engineer Tapiwa Chiwewe to research air quality — something he had no experience in whatsoever.

Specific policies include researching methods to improve indoor air quality; instituting a Clean Water Act to ensure Albertans have safe drinking water; protecting provincial parks and ecological reserves; requiring government to meet high environmental standards in their operations; requiring Ecological Assessments for all large projects in the province; and establishing an Alberta environmental ombudsman and elected Ecological Impact Assessment Review Panels to monitor environmental impacts and halt projects.

Chemist and indoor air quality expert Charles J. Weschler, adjunct professor in environmental and occupational medicine at Rutgers University, said he does not think the levels of chemical concentration found in the mattresses are alarming, but he considers the research valuable.

Not only was it cancer, it was mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer that is little researched or understood but just happens to disproportionately affect Silver's lower Manhattan district which saw a spike in these cases post 9/11 due to poor air quality in the neighborhood.

These partnerships have been fruitful for Holloway, who says nearly all of her research contains some elements inspired by the air quality managers she works with.

That's why for more than a decade, she has not only shared her air quality data with city, state and federal agencies who manage air pollution, she asks for their input on research projects as they are evolving...

Dr. Holloway is a Professor in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, where she leads a research program that employs computer models and satellite data to understand links between regional air quality, energy, and climate.

The ETE comprised different research programs relating to the environment carried out at the NUS faculties of engineering, medicine, and science with research efforts focused on the following six areas: biotreatment technology, membrane technology, adsorption and regeneration, environmental chemistry, environmental catalysis and air pollution control, and air quality management.

«Our other research study into London's air quality, published this week in Atmospheric Environment, investigated the underlining factors responsible for the air pollution exposure in urban environments.

Klepeis added: «Our research team is continuing to develop novel monitoring devices and approaches that consumers can use to understand their air quality, and to explore ways that work for them and their families to reduce unhealthy pollutant exposures, especially for kids.»

She told the audience of about 70 residents that NIEHS - funded research in the harbor area has reported links between air quality and asthma, smaller babies, cardiovascular disease, lung function and even death.

The research could lead to better air purifiers, particularly in regions of the world that suffer from very poor air quality.

Scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) have used UAH's Rocket - city Ozone (O3) Quality Evaluation in the Troposphere (RO3QET) Lidar to measure ozone that was chemically produced by summertime lightning over the United States, research that could be important to air quality prediction and assessment once it is developed fQuality Evaluation in the Troposphere (RO3QET) Lidar to measure ozone that was chemically produced by summertime lightning over the United States, research that could be important to air quality prediction and assessment once it is developed fquality prediction and assessment once it is developed further.

Our data clearly demonstrate that cleaning up air pollution continues to have the desired effect of improving water quality for our region's lakes,» said NHAES researcher William McDowell, professor of environmental science and director of the NH Water Resources Research Center.

Research on air quality in New York, Phoenix and Baltimore shows that ambient CO2 parts per million (ppm) levels can spike into the 400s, 500s and 600s, which climate modelers predict will become the norm in 20 to 30 years.

These discoveries are an outgrowth of research on PAHs that was done by Simonich at the Beijing Summer Olympic Games in 2008, when extensive studies of urban air quality were conducted, in part, based on concerns about impacts on athletes and visitors to the games.

«I think that this research is going to have a long - term influence on how the community evaluates air quality and climate models, because the pH of particles is so important, yet mostly overlooked,» said Athanasios Nenes, a professor and Georgia Power Scholar in the School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences and the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and another co-author.

Chemist and indoor air quality expert Charles J. Weschler, adjunct professor in environmental and occupational medicine at Rutgers University, said he does not think the levels of chemical concentration found in the mattresses are alarming, but he considers the research valuable.

According to Scott Fields of the USCG Research and Development Center «in - situ burning is already a very successful process, but we want to improve the air quality for our first responders who are engaged in oil spill cleanup.»

The negative effect of imported pollution on the US's ability to achieve its air quality goals is not wholly unexpected, according to Owen Cooper, a senior research scientist at the University of Colorado and the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, who is familiar with the current study but not directly iresearch scientist at the University of Colorado and the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, who is familiar with the current study but not directly iResearch Laboratory, who is familiar with the current study but not directly involved.

In August, a team of chemists will measure the indoor air quality in 60 selected homes, while a team of anthropologists will conduct research into the chemists» communication with the local population.

Higher pollution levels were linked to a higher total number of strokes, and researchers said it reaffirmed the growing evidence that climate change and overall air quality contributes to cardiovascular disease, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2016.

SINPHONIE, an EU - funded research project on indoor air quality in EU schools, and its impact on children's health, has recently published its conclusions.

Based on the evidence gathered, the Joint Research Centre and the partners developed guidelines for maintaining good air quality.

The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a non-profit research and advocacy group in New Delhi, had been closely analysing government air - quality data since last October.

They assembled a group of researchers from the University of California, Irvine; the California Energy Commission; and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, many of whom had previously collaborated on regional air quality projects.

A research consortium being coordinated at Saarland University is developing a novel sensor system for monitoring airborne contaminants that will provide high - quality indoor air without the energy losses typically associated with ventilation.

The Yale study is part of a growing body of research on racial and social disparities in air quality.

To industry's chagrin, epidemiologist Joel Schwartz has argued that particulates in the air shorten human life — his research has helped set tougher air - quality standards

Groundwater and air quality testing before, during, and after natural gas drilling — which includes hydraulic fracturing — should be key components of efforts to ensure the safety of communities near these sites, according to an expert panel convened to weigh in on public health research needs associated with unconventional natural gas drilling operations (UNGDO).

Together with other project partners, KIT and INERATEC also study decentralized production of high - quality synthetic fuel from air and renewable power under the «Power - to - X» Kopernikus project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Methods: The team of scientists performed 17 research flights using the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Gulfstream - 1 aircraft during the 2002 New England Air Quality Study field campaign.

Their research suggests that to improve the air quality over major cities in China, emission control planning should focus on the regional scale instead of the local scale.

The results, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, suggest that bad air quality may be contributing to severe droughts in parts of China, as well as causing health and environmental problems.

At UW — Madison, Holloway leads a research program in the Nelson Institute Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment that employs computer models and satellite data to understand links between regional air quality, energy and climate.

Basic and applied research in air physics and chemistry ensure the high quality of our services.

We carry out research, testing and development of air quality measuring methods and equipment, emission inventories, dispersion models and the chemical analyses of air quality.

This research looked at long - term demographic changes, the long - range transport of air pollutants and the influence of climate change on air quality.

The main research themes include greenhouse gas concentrations and ecosystem — atmosphere fluxes, the climate effects of atmospheric aerosols, aerosol — cloud interactions and air quality.

The Finnish Meteorological Institute is a leading expert in meteorology, air quality, climate change, earth observation, marine and arctic research areas.

Recent research from the World Health Organization (WHO) found that more than 80 % of the world's urban population lives in areas where air quality regularly fails health standards.

And the famous Framingham Heart study recently added to the huge database of research studies by identifying a relationship between air quality and cardiovascular inflammation.

In my field of cardiovascular disease, air pollution as a trigger for heart attack and death is rarely mentioned but is highly supported by quality research.

Follow - up research published in the journal Air Quality Atmosphere and Health found that emissions from dryer vents are toxic when fabric softeners or dryer sheets were used.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards and Office of Research and Development.

I would like to see some research about the effect of Himalayan salt on indoor air quality.

Improving School Environments Through Green Cleaning As research mounts about the link between indoor air quality and health, and as more children enter school with respiratory problems, schools, districts, and even whole states are switching to more environmentally - friendly cleaning agents.