air quality scientist News
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The Ian McCrae Travel Award
The Ian McCrae Travel Award was established as a memorial to the life and work of Dr Ian McCrae, who was an internationally-respected air quality scientist and an active member of the Institute of Air Quality Management. Entries to the 2012 Ian McCrae Travel Award should be submitted before the end of October. The annual award of up £1000 is open to early career professionals to attend an ...
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Where there’s smoke, there’s air quality scientists
During September, NIWA staff installed temperature sensors in 14 homes in the North Canterbury town to detect when the occupants were using their woodburners. At the same time six prototype low-cost dust sensors, called ODINs or Outdoor Dust Information Nodes developed by NIWA, were installed on lamp posts around Rangiora to test their robustness and data quality. If successful, air quality ...
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The Ian McCrae Travel Award
The Institute for Air Quality Management has announced the launch of a new award to support the early career development of air quality professionals. As of 2010, the Institute for Air Quality Management (IAQM) will be running the IAQM Ian McCrae Travel Award every year. A £1000 grant will be used to enable the winners to attend an air quality conference in the UK or abroad by covering ...
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NIWA trials new generation air quality sensors
For the past 12 months NIWA has been testing a prototype low-cost dust sensor package called ODIN, or Outdoor Dust Information Node. The first field trial is about to get under way in Rangiora, North Canterbury. Air quality scientist Dr Ian Longley says this new generation of low-cost sensors has the potential for communities to observe, understand and control their local air quality in a much ...
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Scientists Explore Using Trees to Clean Pollution
Before Houston and its suburbs were built, a dense forest naturally purified the coastal air along a stretch of the Texas Gulf Coast that grew thick with pecan, ash, live oak and hackberry trees. It was the kind of pristine woodland that was mostly wiped out by settlers in their rush to clear land and build communities. Now one of the nation's largest chemical companies and one of its oldest ...
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Assessing the drop in London road traffic emissions during COVID-19 restrictions
The restrictions imposed by the UK Government to limit the spread of COVID-19 have led to unprecedented reductions in the volume of road traffic; the latest Government figures suggest that vehicle use has dropped to 40% of normal levels. Discerning the impact of this on air quality in our towns and cities is difficult however, because air quality is heavily dependent on the weather. In typical ...
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Industry Leading EMSL Lab Scientists Speak at AIHce Conference & Expo
Several industry leading scientists from EMSL Analytical, Inc. will speak on several subjects related to indoor air quality in schools, wood rot fungi and surface molds and odor investigations at this years AIHce Conference and exposition being held in Portland, Oregon May 14th – May 20th, 2011. AIHce is considered the most important event of the year among EH&S professionals. More ...
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EPA releases air quality model to study harmful air pollution / model will help scientists protect public health
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a new version of its Community Multi-scale Air Quality model (CMAQ) that uses up-to-the minute meteorology and air chemistry data to determine how weather conditions affect pollution, and how pollution can affect and change weather. Version 5.0 of CMAQ allows scientists to analyze air quality at smaller, finer-resolution settings for ...
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Administrator McCarthy Highlights Clean Air Efforts During Asthma Awareness Month / Agency Honors Community-Focused Asthma Programs
Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is recognizing the start of Asthma Awareness Month and highlighting the agency’s efforts to improve air quality, protect public health, and take action to address climate change. “One in ten kids in America today suffers from asthma, which disproportionately impacts communities of color and low-income families,” said U.S. EPA ...
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CSIRO Melbourne air quality survey volunteer call
CSIRO air quality researcher, Dr Melita Keywood, said scientists are hoping to involve 40 households across Melbourne in the study funded by the Australian Government Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. “We know that some household pollutants pose a health risk under certain circumstances – but there is no profile of what could be described as average conditions in a ...
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