Environmental
In order to maintain employee and occupant health, comfort and productivity, it is essential to manage indoor environmental quality (IEQ) effectively.
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University of Wyoming researchers have a powerful new instrument to monitor air quality levels in Sublette County. Researchers in the UW College Engineering and Applied Science Department of Atmospheric Science last month unveiled an upgrade of a mob
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The first of four mobile shipping containers outfitted with a suite of sophisticated atmosphere-monitoring instruments departed from the U.S. Department of Energys Brookhaven National Laboratory on September 17, 2010, for deployment high on a mountai
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How could climate change and our response to it affect the Great Lakes' water quality? That's the primary question a team of 27 researchers from across the University of Michigan and collaborators at other institutions will answer with a new $5-milli
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The National Institutes of Health will launch a multi-year study this fall to look at the potential health effects from the oil spill in the Gulf region
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Nova Southeastern University (NSU) is using part of a $10 million block grant from BP to conduct research on the Gulf Oil Spills impact on the marine ecosystem, officials announced this week.
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Virginia Tech College of Engineering researchers have received a $60,000 one-year National Science Foundation grant to study how naturally occurring microbes can best be used to eat away remaining crude oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico. Their choice
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With its vast 1.5 million acres of mangrove swamps, sawgrass prairies and subtropical jungles, could the Florida Everglades--the famous river of grass--be affected by the Gulf oil spill?
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Stephen "Ash" Bullard, assistant professor in the Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures in Auburn University's College of Agriculture, recently received a $145,000 National Science Foundation for Rapid Response Research grant for work relat
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Mercury is a toxic element found throughout the environment. Its mobile nature allows it to diffuse through the air, soils and ultimately into water systems. Fish have the ability to bio-accumulate mercury (in its methylated form) at much higher concentrations than the waters they inhabit. People and wildlife that consume fish high in mercury are at risk.
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In many applications, continuous emission monitoring is required to collect and analyze at least one sample every fifteen minutes from industrial processes. High-purity gases are vital for this purpose, as are custom standards for head space analysis of water and soil samples.
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Indoor environmental quality considerations for laboratory construction.
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