Recommended Citation
August 1, 2013.
Abstract
Airborne particulate matter (PM) has been shown to increase the risk for asthma, chronic bronchitis, cardiopulmonary complications, and respiratory cell membrane damage/infection/leakage. PM levels are currently analyzed from two perspectives: stationary land-based monitoring (LBM) sites and total Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) atmospheric column measurements. Both perspectives often leave miles of space between measuring locations and will have a continually increasing cost from introducing/maintaining sites. The Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) satellite team hopes to begin investigating/archiving PM levels comprehensively via inputting MISR AOD measurements into a function/model which predicts the amount of ground level PM.
In the future, multivariable spatial correlations of PM level against: socioeconomic (job availability, annual gross income, education level), climatic, geographical, or governmental conditions for each SJV site will provide more detailed insight into the severity and impact of PM pollution health effects/affects.
Disciplines
Air and Space Law | Atmospheric Sciences | Bioresource and Agricultural Engineering | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Community Health and Preventive Medicine | Environmental Health | Environmental Health and Protection | Environmental Indicators and Impact Assessment | Environmental Law | Environmental Monitoring | Environmental Public Health | Health Law and Policy | Human Rights Law | Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility | Natural Resources and Conservation | Other Applied Mathematics | Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies | Science and Mathematics Education | Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education
Mentor
Olga Kalashnikova & Michael Garay
Lab site
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Funding Acknowledgement
This material is based upon work supported by the S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation and by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0952013. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation or the National Science Foundation. This project has also been made possible with support of the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation. The STAR program is administered by the Cal Poly Center for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Education (CESaME) on behalf of the California State University (CSU).
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