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2025-09-16 13:02Air Quality Monitor Site Visit
Progress towards the first aviation air quality network in the nation SeaTac: State and local officials from Puget Sound Clean Air Agency (PSCAA) and Des Moines gathered today with researchers from University of Washington Department of Occupation and Environmental Health Sciences (UWDEOHS) at Sunset Park to learn about the latest PSCAA Air monitoring site, and -
2025-05-15 23:26Help study childhood asthma and air quality near Sea-Tac. Receive a free HEPA filter!
UW studies links to improved indoor air quality and improved health outcomes for kids Families living near Sea-Tac Airport now have an opportunity to contribute to critical air quality research — and receive a valuable HEPA air filter for their home. The University of Washington is recruiting participants for the Airports, Air Pollution and Asthma -
2025-05-12 19:18DOGE canceled this UW scientist’s grant — to save just $866
As a scientist who depends on research grants, Elena Austin of the University of Washington can’t bear to look at the DOGE grant-slashing website. “I’ve been trying to avoid it,” she told me. It did not, however, avoid her. DOGE, the Elon Musk-headed Department of Government Efficiency, recently posted that a grant to Austin, an environmental health -
2025-01-12 19:10UWDEOHS: Assessing Exposures to Source-specific Air Pollution through a Multi-pollutant Mobile Monitoring Campaign in Seattle, WA
Ningrui Liu, Rajni Oshan, Magali Blanco, Lianne Sheppard, Edmund Seto, Timothy Larson, Elena Austin OCTOBER 24, 2024 Contents Introduction Methods Results and discussion Conclusions Contents Introduction Methods Results and discussion Conclusions Introduction ◼ Health issues of air pollution • Adverse health outcomes: cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases, lung cancer, etc. • Global Burden of Disease 2021: Air pollution is the second leading risk factor, accounting for 8.2% of total DALYs. ◼ Mobile monitoring (MM) studies GBD2021, Lancet, 2024, 403: 2162–2203. Apte et al., Science, 2024, 385: 380–385. • Drive vehicles with high-quality instruments through fixed routes • Have higher spatial resolution than regulatory monitoring RESEARCH GAP OF MM • More focus on PM2.5 than ultrafine particles (UFPs), while health impacts depend on size distribution and chemical composition • Multi-pollutant spatiotemporal data from MM have not been fully used in health studies. Introduction ◼ Source apportionment (SA) studies • Use multi-pollutant data to derive the sources • Approach: positive matrix factorization (PMF), PCA, et al. • Many relied on regulatory monitoring data, and few on MM Hopke et al., Sci. Total Environ., 2020, 740: 140091. Hopke et al., Sci. Total Environ., 2022, 819: 153104. Larson et al., Atmos. Environ., 2017, 152: 201-211. RESEARCH GAP OF SA-MM • Few considered particle size distribution • Few classified traffic-related source into different vehicle types • Limited time frames (days to weeks) ◼ Research aims: PMF + MM 1. Characterize emission sources more accurately 2. Assess source-specific air pollution exposures 3. Estimate the annual average emission… -
2024-05-09 20:49Population health implications of exposure to pervasive military aircraft noise pollution
Giordano Jacuzzi, Lauren M. Kuehne, Anne Harvey, Christine Hurley, Robert Wilbur, Edmund Seto & Julian D. Olden Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology (2024)Cite this article 1267 Accesses 318 Altmetric Metricsdetails Abstract Background While the adverse health effects of civil aircraft noise are relatively well studied, impacts associated with more intense and intermittent noise from military aviation have -
2024-03-07 10:49Co5950 S.pl
Passed by the Senate March 7, 2024 Yeas 39 Nays 8 President of the Senate Passed by the House March 7, 2024 Yeas 58 Nays 39 Speaker of the House of Representatives CERTIFICATE I, Sarah Bannister, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5950 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth. Secretary Approved FILED Governor of the State of Washington Secretary of State State of Washington AN ACT Relating to fiscal matters; amending RCW 43.101.220, 1 43.101.230, and 70A.65.300; reenacting and amending RCW 43.101.200 2 and 70A.65.250; amending 2023 c 475 ss 1, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 3 106, 107, 108, 109, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 4 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 5 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 6 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 7 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 8 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 301, 302, 303, 304, 9 305, 306, 307, 308, 309, 310, 311, 312, 401, 402, 501, 502, 503, 504, 10 505, 506, 507, 508, 509, 510, 511, 512, 513, 514, 515, 516, 517, 518, 11 519, 520, 521, 522, 523, 605, 606, 607, 608,… -
2023-08-02 00:43ANES 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 -
2023-07-06 00:50UW study shows Seattle’s historically redlined communities have worse air quality
By Isabella Breda Seattle Times staff reporter As Seattleites awoke to a hazy concoction of wildfire and Fourth of July firework smoke Wednesday morning, a new study dropped, revealing that some neighborhoods in the city are regularly subject to worse air pollution, reflective of historic racist policies. Those neighborhoods, according to research published Wednesday from the University of Washington, -
2022-09-20 00:00Atmosphere 2022: UWDEOHS Healthy Air, Healthy Schools
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2022-08-28 19:39The Unbearable Menace Airport Noise Ehs News James Mcc A Roll 09/72 Vol 20 9 Spl SP Sst
Director: James McCarroll, M.D. Editor: Peter A. Breysse, M.S., M.P.H. Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec. 1972 . Vo 1 ume 20, Nos. 9, 1 0, 11 , 12 THE UNBEARABLE MENACE -- AIRPORT NOISE Noise, defined as unwanted sound, surrounds the urban dweller in a never-ending excessive and gradually increasing din of decibels. No one is exposed more intolerably than the citizen who resides in close proximity to a major airport. Exposure of humans to noise can result in both mental and physical distress. While the most noticeable effect of noise exposure involves the hearing mechanism, certain noises may result in non-auditory distress such as alterations in resoiration, circulation, basal metabolic rate. and muscle tension. These physical effects are primarily related to intensity and frequency of the offending sound. Equally important and very likely more important than the physical manifestations are the possible psychologic effects. Psychologic reactions invo 'lve a multiplicity of factors which vary v-Jith the characteristics of the sound -- the inappropriateness of the stimulus, unexpectedness of the noise, interference \'ith speech COITimunication, and intermittancy, as well as its intensity and frequency. The quality of the noise rather than the quantity is usually the deciding factor in influencing the emotional reactions to raise. No doubt the most widespread reaction to noise is that of annoyance. Certain characteristics of sound appear more annoying than others. These characteristics are: 1. Loudness- the more intense, louder noises are considered more annoying. 2. Pitch- a high pitch noise is generally more annoying than…