Connecting NASA Data and Tools with Health and Air Quality Stakeholders
Susan Anenberg, Daven Henze, and the authors of the Nature paper on diesel NOx emissions recently gave a webinar on their findings, which was recorded and posted to YouTube. Check out the full webinar here. Click here for more information on their paper.
New air quality research is investigating a major, but often overlooked contributor to outdoor pollution and climate: burning of solid fuel for cooking and heating. Cookstove studies typically evaluate how they contribute to indoor air quality issues in houses where solid fuel is frequently used for cooking and heating. A new paper from the University …
HAQAST Program Manager John Haynes speaks on NASA Applied Sciences Website about HAQAST and our upcoming meeting, HAQAST2 in February. (HAQAST part begins at 3:30). “HAQAST has expanded its focus beyond just air quality policy and regulation information utilizing Earth observationing data to the environmental health realm. That brings in a whole new part of …
A recent Isthmus article featured UW professor, Tracey Holloway ‘putting NASA satellite data to work’ Data from NASA shows that nitrogen dioxide pollution, averaged yearly from 2005 to 2011, has decreased across the United States. A new generation of satellites is sending back an unheralded amount of data, measuring air pollution, pollen, smoke and much …
HAQAST Leader, Holloway predicts what we can expect in 2017 Dr. Tracey Holloway is professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences in Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and leader of NASA’s Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team. This coming year will bring a huge advance in the monitoring …