EPA Research Updates
If you live in a city with a Village Green station, monitoring air quality can be as easy as a walk in the park. EPA’s Village Green stations are park benches with innovative air quality measurement systems built right into them. Anyone interested in establishing their own Village Green-like station can learn how by viewing the new instructional manual and video.
EPA awarded $800,000 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to examine lead in well water and its potential impact on children’s developmental health. Working with the State of North Carolina and using healthcare, education, and water infrastructure data for their research, the UNC team will assess the association between lead in private well water and children’s blood lead levels.
Low-cost
air sensor technologies continue to become more readily available. But the need to
accurately characterize the air quality data remains a challenge. EPA
researchers are working with Aeroqual, a New Zealand-based company specializing
in the development of air quality monitoring equipment, to evaluate and advance
these new technologies.
The next generation of scientists and
engineers are ready to change the world. EPA awarded a total of
$463,000 to 31 student teams to develop their ideas to solve real environmental
problems. The awards are Phase 1 of EPA's P3 program, a two phase competition
where college students design environmental solutions that benefit
people, promote prosperity, and protect the planet.
Over the course of a day, we may encounter different levels of air pollutants. Tracking these exposures is important to understanding their impacts on our health. EPA researchers developed the MicroTrac model to enhance exposure assessments by correctly identifying where people are when they are exposed to air pollution.
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Events
Webinar: Water Security and Resiliency
Tuesday March 27 | 2:00 pm ET
This webinar will focus on water security and resiliency. The first presentation will provide an overview of the Water Laboratory Alliance and highlight several of its available tools and resources that small systems can use to improve emergency response.
The second presentation will describe sampling and analysis tools that EPA provides to water utilities for improving drinking water and wastewater system resiliency to disasters, and to quickly recover from contamination involving chemical, biological, and radiological agents.
Register here.
Webinar: Cost-Effective Treatment Technologies for Small Drinking Water Systems
Wednesday March 28 | 3:00 pm ET
EPA has developed and patented biological water treatment technology to remove ammonia that is affordable to operate and easy to implement in small drinking water systems. This webinar will highlight the technology, and its use during a drastic flood in Iowa, summer 2008.
Register here.
Join us for EPA's 14th Annual
People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) National Sustainable Design Expo
April 7-8, 2018
EPA is hosting
the 14th Annual National Sustainable Design Expo featuring
the 2017 People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) student teams! The P3 Program
is a two-phase competition supporting student teams to research and develop
innovative environmental and public health solutions that benefit people,
promote prosperity, and protect the planet. This year, 31 Phase
I teams are attending the Expo located within the USA
Science and Engineering Festival on April 7-8 to showcase their
designs. The Festival is free and open to the public. In addition to hosting the
expo and P3 student teams, the festival hosts other exhibits focusing on
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, to educate and inspire the
next generation of scientists and engineers.
Visit EPA and the P3 teams at the Festival in Hall D.
Webinar: Emerging Sensor Technologies 2014-2018 Progress Report
Monday April 30 | 8:30 am ET and 1:30 pm ET
In recent years, EPA's Sensor Performance Evaluation and Application Research (SPEAR) initiative has conducted a variety of laboratory and field-based evaluations and deployments of air quality sensors and other next generation air monitors.
This webinar will summarize general findings across a broad base of air sensor research activities from 2014 - 2018. Each session will feature presentations by some of the SPEAR research team on such topics as sensor evaluations, data analytics, ammonia detection, citizen science, and detection of select emission sources.
Register here.
2018 EPA International Decontamination Research and Development Conference
May 8–10, 2018
Join researchers, engineers, homeland security experts, emergency managers, and first responders to learn more about decontamination technologies, best practices, and research and development at this year’s International Decontamination Research & Development Conference held at EPA’s Research Triangle Park, NC, campus.
Register here.
EPA Air Quality Sensor Workshop
June 25-26, 2018
EPA will host an in-person workshop and online webinar, Deliberating Performance Targets for Air Quality Sensors, to discuss a broad range of issues involved with establishing and adopting a common set of non-regulatory performance targets for air sensor technologies. The workshop will be held at EPA’s research campus in Durham, NC. Anyone from state and local government, tribes, industry, academia, or the public with special interest or technical expertise in measuring ambient or near source air pollution is encouraged to attend the workshop.
Register here.
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