Sentences with phrase «air quality study»

«An observational and modeling strategy to investigate the impact of remote sources on local air quality: A Houston, Texas, case study from the Second Texas Air Quality Study (TexAQS II).»

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.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation is out with the results of its second air quality study for the West Side Buffalo neighborhoods around the Peace Bridge.

A new air quality study is underway on Buffalo's West Side near the Peace Bridge.

State refuses to release long - awaited Peace Bridge air quality study to residents and Investigative Post.

While the media has reported on the air quality studies, the trial and community concerns, the stories of individuals and their families have, for the most part, remained in the background.

She hit her stride at Texas A&M University, where after a couple of more years concentrating on air quality studies she rediscovered the allure of clouds and of severe storms.

Demonstrated understanding of the concepts involved with atmospheric transport, dispersion models and air quality studies.

Not exact matches

However, such statements ignore studies that suggest fracking has worsened local air quality in areas undergoing unconventional natural gas development.

Again, countless studies support the claim that indoor plants in the workplace provide better air quality and have many psychological benefits.

As another study found, «Communities that have invested in infrastructure to promote walking or biking have shown increased property values, improved air quality, reduced urban heat injury (see # 3, below), and greater social cohesion.»

The DEC will conduct a study over the next year on the air quality in the Ezra Prentice neighborhood after South End homeowners voiced concerns.

Al Carlacci, the regional air pollutant control engineer for the state Department of Environmental Conservation, said he doesn't need a meter or an air quality monitor to tell him that there's some dirty air in the West Side near the Peace Bridge, where studies have shown high levels of asthma.

At 10:30 a.m., DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos will make an announcement regarding the State's efforts to study and improve air quality in Albany's South End community.

Second Avenue Subway construction is causing air quality problems, according to a study requested by Assemblyman Micah Kellner.

The environmental impact study will take two years and will look at how building and operating the facility would affect land and water use, air quality, transportation, and socioeconomic aspects of the community.

ALBANY, N.Y. — The DEC will conduct a study on the air quality in the Ezra Prentice neighborhood after South End homeowners voiced concerns.

Cuomo's health commissioner, Dr. Howard Zucker says as he examined numerous completed and still on going studies on fracking's effects on drinking water, air quality and other health issues, several «red flags» were raised, and he says he has «identified significant health risks in the current data» that have not been answered by conclusive long term studies with «large population pools».

Once my profile is created, I read about the other five scientists I'm competing against: Walaa, a Ph.D. student studying honeybees; a paleobiology Ph.D. student named Sophie; Sarah, an air quality specialist; a biomedical scientist named Gabriel; and Breandan, a geohazard specialist.

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 Federal Aviation Administration established the center in 2004 under a Congressional directive to study air quality problems in airline cabins in the wake of the previous year's severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in Asia, which later spread to more than two dozen countries in North America, South America and Europe.

Co-author Hayley Hung, a scientist with Environment Canada's Air Quality Division who studies toxic organic pollutants in the Arctic, said that in recent years, researchers had posited that warmer conditions would liberate POPs stored in land, ice and ocean reservoirs back into the atmosphere.

«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.

The study, «Uncertainty in the Cost Effectiveness of Nine Air Quality Regulations,» has been published in The Journal of Benefit - Cost Analysis (Spring 2015).

Fires are more prevalent in other parts of the world, but the site's high - quality health, wind, and air pollution data made it attractive for study.

«Our study suggests that the effect of human capital on economic growth is larger in high - quality - of - life counties — natural amenities such as clean air and temperate climate, could potentially attract human capital and perhaps increase labor productivity, thus boosting the effect of human capital on growth,» said Fan.

The study also examined variations in quality measure rates by service branch — Army, Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy — and TRICARE region (North, South, West, and Overseas) as well as across service member characteristics.

«You might expect air quality would decline if ammonia emissions go up, but this shows it won't happen, provided the emissions from combustion go down,» said Fabien Paulot, an atmospheric chemist with Princeton University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who was not involved in the study.

The study also highlighted that green infrastructure has both positive and negative impacts on air quality at street levels, depending on the urban location it is in as well as its vegetation characteristics.

The organic (carbon - containing) compounds they studied in that patch of Colorado forest play a key role in atmospheric chemical processes that can affect air quality, the health of the ecosystem, and the climate itself.

The models can be incorporated into global or regional models for studying climate change, visibility and air quality.

The study suggests that the biggest gains were made in air quality.

Previous studies had looked at indoor air quality in Tibet during the summer season.

«Speed reductions, which are known to reduce emissions, would need to be maintained over a very long - term period in order to produce regional air quality benefits,» said James Corbett, a professor of marine policy at the University of Delaware, who has studied the impact of the shipping industry on human health.

Studies have shown, for example, that as the temperature and humidity of indoor air increases, its perceived quality declines.

The study attributes more than 100 pneumonia cases requiring hospitalization in the region to poor air quality.

«While Beijing's pollution is particularly noteworthy, many of the world's other cities face similar air quality problems,» said Junfeng Zhang, Ph.D., with Duke Global Health Institute and Duke Kunshan University and a co-author of the study.

The study also is the first to examine differences in air quality and pollution sources between urban and rural areas in the Midwest.

Studying clouds and aerosols won't just help scientists study the climate, it's also a chance to investigate air quality and how atmospheric particles affect daily life.

California's Bay Area Air Quality Management District changed its approach after studies showed leaks from oil refineries in the area — known as fugitive emissions — were likely underrepresented in emission factors.

Cota immediately signed up for the study and learned how to use a particle counter, which measures particulates and toxins in the air, to take samples of ambient air quality surrounding her home.

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.

«This study shows that although we think air quality in the United States is good enough to protect our citizens, in fact we need to lower pollution levels even further,» said Schwartz.

A new study of 60 million Americans — about 97 % of people age 65 and older in the United States — shows that long - term exposure to airborne fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ozone increases the risk of premature death, even when that exposure is at levels below the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) currently established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The study examined the benefits of global and domestic GHG mitigation on US air quality and human health in 2050, comparing a scenario with no global action to reduce GHGs with an aggressive scenario that significantly slows climate change.

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 involved.

The study, which used data from the United States and China, is one of the first to investigate the interaction between air quality and the number of stroke cases (prevalence) along with the potential effect of temperatures on the association.

By including the two most important air pollutants in the analysis, the new study «gives policy makers and local air quality managers a much better picture of what is going on.»

The Environmental Mineralogy and Environmental Systems Analysis Working Group headed by Professor Stefan Norra of KIT has been studying air quality in Beijing since 2005 already.

But few studies have examined the specific effects of climate on electricity emissions and air quality.