• 2023-08-02 00:43

    ANES 2023 Program Information

    Adapting for Tomorrow, Today While climate change is an urgent challenge for every sector, forcing businesses and people to rethink their actions, the airline industry and affected communities are also facing even deeper challenges in attempting to alleviate continued noise, health and climate change impacts. This year’s sessions will take a deep dive into how aviation noise and emissions assessments
  • 2022-07-27 10:43

    UW DEOHS Flights passing over schools around Sea-Tac Airport

    UW DEOHS Flights passing over schools around Sea-Tac Airport A graphic showing how many flights pass over various public schools at an elevation < 750m in the area surrounding Sea-Tac Airport in 2019.
  • 2021-05-01 00:00

    Healthy Schools: A School Based Air Quality Intervention

    Important Notes: This is not a formal grant program. This form provides information for House and Senate members to request a separate appropriation in the capital budget for this project. Funding any project is at the discretion of the Legislature. This document may be subject to disclosure under the Public Records Act (Chapter 42.56 RCW). Funds are available on a reimbursement basis only and cannot be advanced. All capital construction projects and land acquisition projects require Governors Executive Order 05- review. Projects may be subject to state prevailing wage law (Chapter 39.12 RCW). Requesting organization are encouraged to consult the Industrial Statistician (Jim Christensen: 360-902-5330 or Jim.Christensen@LrIi.wa.gov) at the Washington State Department of Labor Industries to determine whether prevailing wages must be paid. High-performance building requirements (Chapter 39.35D RCW) and Executive Order 13-03 regarding life cycle and operating costs in public works projects may also apply. Healthy Schools; A School Based Air Quality Intervention $912.810 Sponsor(s): Orwall, Rep. Tina, Johnson, Rep. Jesse Where is the project physically located? Address: , SeaTac, Des Moines, Federal Way, Norrnandy Park and Burien King District(s): 33 30, 37 Coordinates: , Project Contact Contact: Elena Austin , Assistant Professor Organization: Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington Website: https://deohs.washington.edu/ Phone: 206-221 -6301 E-mail: elaustin@ uw.edu Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, Box 351618 3980 15th Avenue NE, Seattle, WA i:TIM=:::,„„_ I„. w„_.[„„„„j„„_. I„„ I Address:
  • 2021-01-27 11:10

    Monitoring air quality in schools

    January 27, 2021 | Deirdre Lockwood Does ultrafine air pollution infiltrate schools near Sea-Tac Airport? DEOHS researchers partner with cities in South King County to find out. DEOHS Assistant Professor Elena Austin is leading a project to track air quality in public schools near Sea-Tac Airport. Photo: Mark Stone. As students in King County public
  • 2021-01-18 11:38

    UW DEOHS Ambient air quality monitoring platform

    Goal: Identify characteristic pollutant mixtures within communities impacted by unique pollutant sources including non-roadway transportation sources, point emission sources and localized burn events. Approach: Develop a mobile air quality monitoring infrastructure and deployment strategy allowing for the long-term gathering of information on pollutant mixtures and trends impacting Washington communities. This mobile air quality monitoring is not intended to provide regulatory data. Mobile monitoring has been shown to effectively represent annual concentrations of air pollutant when sampling design is balanced over the course of a year. Mobile monitoring has also been demonstrated to allow for discrimination of distinct pollutant sources including roadway traffic, non-roadway transportation sources and local point sources. A mobile sampling platform has the advantage of spatial flexibility, rapid response to ambient air quality concerns and ability to capture a range of pollutants including novel measures not currently captured by the ambient air quality monitoring. Scope: This budget request includes the two components. The first, includes the hardware required to acquire and custom assemble 2 mobile monitoring platforms. The ability to simultaneously sample at 2 locations is critical to interpreting mobile monitoring data and spatial extent of air pollution impacts. The second, the development and testing of a mobile monitoring sampling protocol developed by the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington in partnership with local, State and Federal stakeholders. Outputs: The output of this project will include • 2 fully equipped mobile monitoring platforms, ready for installation in commercially available hybrid SUV vehicles.…
  • 2020-12-05 00:00

    The Relationship Between Flight Traffic, Ultrafine Particles and Noise from the Seattle Aircraft Air and Noise Study

    Edmund Seto, Elena Austin, Jianbang Xiang, Jeffry Shirai, Tim Gould, Timothy Larson Washington Environmental Health Disparities Map https://fortress.wa.gov/doh/wtn/WTNIBL/ This map ranks areas in red that are more impacted by cumulative environmental hazards. Many parts of Beacon Hill and other South King County communities have rankings in the red, and are impacted by cumulative hazards. NOISE Sea-Tac Airport Noise Impacts http://www.airportsites.net/SEA-Part150/documents/final/e-Chapter-3_Noise%20Analysis.pdf DNL 65 dBA Noise exposures are associated with human health effects > Cardiovascular effects > Sleep disturbance > Annoyance > Impaired children’s learning FAA 14 CFR Part 150 Analysis (2013) for Sea-Tac includes: > A model of noise contours attributable to flights > Measured noise, only looking at levels >60 dB that are >3 secs, correlated with flights > A 65 dB noise contour is considered a threshold for incompatible residential land use without mitigation. > But this 65 dB threshold is supposed to be for “cumulative noise” – noise from all sources. http://www.airportsites.net/SEA-Part150/documents/final/e-Chapter-3_Noise%20Analysis.pdf Beacon Hill Seattle Noise Study Video of noise from flyover Particulate Air Pollution micron is 1000 nanometers. So a UFP is <0.1 microns PM2.5 Measurements at Seattle Beacon Hill Site by Puget Sound Clean Air Agency Federal standard primary and secondary 24 hr μg/m3 98th percentile, averaged over 3 years primary 1 year 12.0 μg/m3 annual mean, averaged over 3 years Despite not exceeding standard, still ranks 10 on the Environmental Health Disparities Map, indicating that historic PM levels in this area are among the highest concentrations observed in the state. PM2.5 Measurements at Seattle Beacon…