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Indoor Air Quality<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n

\"\"I’m interested in exposure to air pollutants indoors that are emitted from building materials and other sources inside the home.\u00a0 The graph shows measurements of selected VOCs such as formaldehyde and benzene made by the\u00a0 PTR-MS instrument inside a home in summer.\u00a0 VOCs levels are much higher indoors than outdoors (> 10x) and display a time of day variation induced by meteorological variation (temperature and wind) of the home’s natural air change rate. Understanding emissions from building materials and how to best ventilate homes and buildings to make them energy efficient and healthy is a major engineering challenge.\u00a0 While exposure to some indoor air pollutants is known to cause disease, current health research is also showing a link between indoor air pollutants and cognitive function and perhaps long term impairment.\u00a0 Since we spend ~90% of our time indoors it is important to understand how to reduce\u00a0 exposure to indoor pollutants.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Compost Emissions<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n

\"\"Composting organic waste rather than landfilling is a great way for urban areas to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and return stabilized carbon to soils.\u00a0 Large scale composting facilities exist in WA.\u00a0 For facilities to operate they need an air emissions permit for the VOCs that are emitted in the composting process.\u00a0 We are working with WA Dept. of Ecology and and a company called Engineered Compost Systems to better quantify VOC emissions from aerated static pile type compost systems.\u00a0 This research will help set guidelines for testing and emission factors for the state’s air permitting process.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Wine & Wildfires<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n

We are involved in a new project to\u00a0 investigate the impact on wildfire smoke on wine grape taint.\u00a0 This is a very large multi-investigator project led by Oregon State University. Bad tasting wine results when grapes are exposed to too much smoke, impacting the wine industry in the Western US and Canada.\u00a0 We will be measuring the abundance of phenols and other air pollutants in wildfire smoke that are thought to cause grape taint.\u00a0 We want to know if chemical processing of phenols by wildfire plume oxidants (HO, NO3) reduces the occurrence of grape taint.\u00a0 The aim of the project is to help the wine industry better predict risk and manage wildfire smoke taint.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Indoor Air Quality<\/h2>\n

\"\"I’m interested in exposure to air pollutants indoors that are emitted from building materials and other sources inside the home.\u00a0 The graph shows measurements of selected VOCs such as formaldehyde and benzene made by the\u00a0 PTR-MS instrument inside a home in summer.\u00a0 VOCs levels are much higher indoors than outdoors (> 10x) and display a time of day variation induced by meteorological variation (temperature and wind) of the home’s natural air change rate. Understanding emissions from building materials … » More …<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24935,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-builder.php","meta":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/jobson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/jobson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/jobson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/jobson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24935"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/jobson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/jobson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/jobson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/jobson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/jobson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/jobson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}