Air Quality, Human Exposure and Emission Controls: "One-Atmosphere" Approach

The Ozone Research Center (ORC*) at the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI**) held its 2005 Science Workshop on Monday, December 19, at EOHSI. The topic of the workshop was Air Quality, Human Exposure and Emission Controls: "One-Atmosphere" Approach.

Presentations included:

• Overview of recent Ozone Research Center activities (P.G. Georgopoulos)
• Advances in "One Atmosphere" modeling of air quality and population exposures (S. Isukapalli, P.G. Georgopoulos)
• Advances in modeling individual based exposures estimates to VOCs (S.W. Wang, P.G. Georgopoulos)
• Advances in development of control strategies for ozone and PM (A. Unal, N. Lahoti, R. Papalski, P.G. Georgopoulos)

Posters included:

for Regional/Multiscale Applications:

• Development and testing of a module for estimating spatio-temporal dynamic pollen emission rates (C. Efstathiou, A. Unal, N. Lahoti, P.G. Georgopoulos)
• Improved algorithms for fast spatio-temporal interpolation of photochemical air quality model results (S. Isukapalli, V.M. Vyas, P.G. Georgopoulos)
• Modeling cumulative and aggregate exposures of co-occurring multimedia contaminants in a probabilistic source-to-dose framework - case study: Hg and MeHg (S.W. Wang, A. Sasso, S. Isukapalli, Y.C. Yang, P.G. Georgopoulos)
• Overview of the regional air quality modeling at ORC in support for NJDEP (A. Unal, N. Lahoti, P.G. Georgopoulos)

for Local Scale Applications:

• Distributions of air toxics measurements collected from the Relationships of Indoor, Outdoor, and Personal Air (RIOPA) study
  (S.W. Wang, P.G. Georgopoulos)
• Modeling exposures to VOCs through the individual-based exposure modeling application of the MENTOR/SHEDS-1A system
  (S.W. Wang, P.G. Georgopoulos)
• Study of baseline quality of ambient and personal air within the New Jersey Meadowlands district: Modeling components (P.G. Georgopoulos, S.W. Wang, N. Lahoti, S. Tong, W. Li, S. Isukapalli, P.J. Lioy)
• Ozone Trends (1986-2004) at Monitoring Stations in New Jersey
• PM10 and PMLC2.5 Trends (1986-2004) at Monitoring Stations in New Jersey

Emergency Event Applications:

• GIS based planning and management support systemfor emergency events involving atmospheric releases of hazardous materials (N. Lahoti, S. Tong, S. Isukapalli, W. Li, P.G. Georgopoulos)
• Rapid assessment of exposures and doses to atmospheric contaminants using the pre-computed modeling approach (S. Isukapalli, P.G. Georgopoulos)
   

* Base funding for the Ozone Research Center at EOHSI is provided by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP)

** EOHSI is a joint project of UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Rutgers The State University