Sentences with phrase «measure environmental pollutants»

«New technology has allowed us to measure environmental pollutants in places and at levels that we wouldn't previously have been able to do,» says Steve Hamburg, chief scientist at EDF.

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The system processes 500,000,000 data points each day on indoor environmental quality, including comfort measures of temperature, humidity, noise, and light, and air pollutants like carbon dioxide and particulate matter.

Conventional technology such as mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance can measure such components — that is how biochemists test the toxicity of drugs or environmental pollutants on human cells.

The indoor environmental quality measured in green buildings is better compared to typical buildings and, as a result, occupants have less exposure to allergens, pollutants and environmental contaminants such as the harmful gas formaldehyde found in some building materials.

To monitor urban air quality, environmental agencies typically measure pollutant concentrations in samples collected at centralized outdoor locations and extrapolate individuals» average exposures from those measurements.

The large «metal dome» collects air samples for analysis of environmental pollutants, while the three small cylinders measure nitrogen dioxide (blue), sulfur dioxide (red) and ozone (white).

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a form of motor neuron disease and is the subject of a paper in JAMA Neurology which reports that environmental pollutants measured in the blood were associated with the disease.

Ten years ago trout in Norway's largest lake had the world's highest measured levels of the environmental pollutant PBDE.

Researchers have discovered that used breast implants can be used to measure persistent environmental pollutants in human bodies.

Lovelock's invention of the electron capture detector in 1957 first enabled scientists to measure CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) and other pollutants in the atmosphere, leading, in many ways, to the birth of the modern environmental movement.

For example, when effectiveness is measured in tons of reduced pollutant emissions, cost - effectiveness estimates will be misleading unless the reduced emissions of diverse pollutants result in the same health and environmental benefits.

Under the measure, passed by a 13 to 1 vote, stores throughout L.A. will be required to phase out the bags by the end of the year, significantly reducing the amount of landfill fodder and environmental pollutants.

My expertise lies in utilizing a variety of instruments and technology to measure, monitor, and control environmental pollutants.