• 2022-10-02 00:13

    It’s not your imagination, ‘smoke season’ has become real in Seattle

    Almost all of the summer and fall “bad air” days since monitoring began were in the last six years, showing that wildfire smoke events in Seattle really are a recent phenomenon. (Kylie Cooper / The Seattle Times)   By Danny Westneat  Seattle Times columnist When the Spanish flu was pronounced over back in 1918, Seattleites
  • 2022-09-01 00:00

    Air pollution, white matter microstructure, and brain volumes Periods of susceptibility from pregnancy to preadolescence

    0269-7491/© 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Air pollution, white matter microstructure, and brain volumes: Periods of susceptibility from pregnancy to preadolescence☆ Anne-Claire Binter a,b,c, Michelle S.W. Kusters a,b,c,d, Michiel A. van den Dries a,b,c,d, Lucia Alonso a,b,c, Małgorzata J. Lubczyńska a,b,c, Gerard Hoek e, Tonya White d,f, Carmen Iñiguez c,g,h, Henning Tiemeier d,i, j, Mònica Guxens a,b,c,d,* a ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain b Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain c CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Spain d Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychology, Erasmus MC, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands e Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands f Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands g Department of Statistics and Operational Research, Universitat de València, Spain h Epidemiology and Environmental Health Joint Research Unit, FISABIO-Universitat Jaume I-Universitat de València, València, Spain The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands j Department of Social and Behavioral Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA A R T I C L E I N F O Keywords: Cohort studies Child development Air pollution Neuroimaging Time series A B S T R A C T Air pollution exposure during early-life is associated with altered brain development, but the precise periods of susceptibility are unknown. We aimed to investigate whether there are periods of susceptibility of air pollution between conception and preadolescence in…
  • 2022-08-19 22:33

    Fecal bacteria pollution is a problem for Poverty Bay’s shellfish

    A mix of dog droppings, septic leakage and other pollutants have become a nuisance for wildlife and geoduck harvesting at Poverty Bay over the last few years. By Alex Bruell • August 19, 2022 5:30 am Divers, walkers and other beachgoers enjoy Poverty Bay in Des Moines on a Saturday morning, Aug. 13. Photo by Alex Bruell/Sound
  • 2021-09-19 00:00

    Characterization of annual average traffic-related air pollution levels (particle number,1 black carbon, nitrogen dioxide, PM2.5 , carbon dioxide) in the greater Seattle area from a2 year-long mobile monitoring campaign 2021.09.18.2 (pre-print)

    Characterization of annual average traffic-related air pollution levels (particle number, 1 black carbon, nitrogen dioxide, PM2.5, carbon dioxide) in the greater Seattle area from a 2 year-long mobile monitoring campaign 3 Magali N. Blanco,a Amanda Gassett,a Timothy Gould,b Annie Doubleday,a David L. Slager,a 5 Elena Austin,a Edmund Seto,a Timothy Larson,a,b Julian Marshall,b Lianne Shepparda,c 6 aDepartment of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, 9 University of Washington, Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, 3980 15th Ave NE, 10 Seattle, WA 98195 11 bDepartment of Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, University of 13 Washington, 201 More Hall, Box 352700, Seattle, WA 98195 14 cDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Hans Rosling 16 Center for Population Health, 3980 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98195 17 . CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licenseIt is made available under a is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. (which was not certified by peer review) The copyright holder for this preprint this version posted February 14, 2022. ; https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.18.21263522doi: medRxiv preprint NOTE: This preprint reports new research that has not been certified by peer review and should not be used to guide clinical practice. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.18.21263522 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Abstract 19 Growing evidence links traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) to adverse health effects. We 21 designed an innovative and extensive mobile monitoring campaign to characterize TRAP 22 exposure levels for the Adult Changes in Thought (ACT) study, a Seattle-based cohort. The 23 campaign measured particle…
  • 2021-05-26 17:13

    PBS Nova: The Great Electric Airplane Race

    Can new emission-free electric planes replace our polluting airliners and revolutionize personal transportation in our cities? NOVA takes you for a ride in some impressive prototypes that are already in the air, from speedy single-seat planes that can take off like a helicopter but are half as noisy to “self-flying” air taxis that are already
  • 2021-04-01 23:31

    Des Moines Water District #54 Tower

    The King County Water District 54 reservoir is located in Des Moines on 11th Avenue between City Hall and the Police Department. Effects of airplane exhaust An interesting way to see the effects of airplane exhaust from take-offs heading south from Sea-Tac Airport is to look at this tower. Here are two pictures taken on
  • 2021-03-15 11:01

    Washington Tracking Network

    Welcome to WTN, a Washington State Department of Health program focused on making public health data more accessible. WTN staff keep data in all tools up to date and develop additional data based on need and availability. Data are available for download and exploration using our four tools.
  • 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
  • 2020-12-17 13:46

    Who Gets to Breathe Clean Air in New Delhi?

    A visual story of pollution in New Delhi. A great explainer on PM25.
  • 2020-12-05 10:00

    Beacon Hill Air & Noise Pollution Community Meeting Zoom Video

    https://seatacnoise.info/wp-content/uploads/20ECZoomCommunityReportBack12-5-20%20copy.mp4 Seattle Beacon Hill Air & Noise Pollution Community Meeting Dec 5, 2020 10:00 AM sponsored by El Centro De La Raza and hosted by Maria Batayola. Featured speakers were Congressman Adam Smith and Dr. Edmund Seto of UW DEOHS. Related: The Relationship Between Flight Traffic, Ultrafine Particles and Noise from the Seattle Aircraft Air