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Air Quality Measurements for Science and Policy
Citation:
SOLOMON, P. A. Air Quality Measurements for Science and Policy. EM: AIR AND WASTE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION'S MAGAZINE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGERS. Air & Waste Management Association, Pittsburgh, PA, 5(May, 2012):6, (2012).
Impact/Purpose:
The National Exposure Research Laboratory′s (NERL′s) Human Exposure and Atmospheric Sciences Division (HEASD) conducts research in support of EPA′s mission to protect human health and the environment. HEASD′s research program supports Goal 1 (Clean Air) and Goal 4 (Healthy People) of EPA′s strategic plan. More specifically, our division conducts research to characterize the movement of pollutants from the source to contact with humans. Our multidisciplinary research program produces Methods, Measurements, and Models to identify relationships between and characterize processes that link source emissions, environmental concentrations, human exposures, and target-tissue dose. The impact of these tools is improved regulatory programs and policies for EPA.
Description:
Air quality measurements and the methods used to conduct them are vital to advancing our knowledge of the source-to-receptor-to-health effects continuum1-3. This information then forms the basis for evaluating and managing air quality to protect human health and welfare. This issue of EM describes six aspects fundamental to linking science and policy through measurements. These articles include the areas of Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Federal Reference and Equivalent Methods (FRM and FEM), EPA's NCore multipollutant network, ultrafine particles, coarse particles, data needs for air quality modeling, and approaches to community-based monitoring using sensors with data communicated via mobile devices assisted with user friendly 'apps' .
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