A $702,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will pay for two science instruments and allow for continued study of indoor air quality in Fairbanks.
A $702K grant from the National Science Foundation will pay for two science instruments and allow for continued study of indoor air qualityANCHORAGE, Alaska - Important questions about air pollution in the Interior could be answered following a National Science Foundation grant that the University of Alaska Fairbanks received.
“The main goal of this grant is to purchase two major instruments to better understand air quality in Fairbanks,” Mao said. “For both purpose of understanding the impact of heating oil regulation, air quality, as well as in summertime, we also have lots of wildfires that trying to understand the chemical composition of those wildfires.”
The instruments to be purchased are an aerosol chemical speciation monitor — or TOF-ACSM-X — and a scanning, mobility particle sizer, or SNPS. “If we can measure everything every five minutes, or in one minute, we really can monitor those spikes in a much better way,” Mao said.
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