On Wednesday, July 24, 2024 the Iowa Institute for Public Health Practice, Research and Policy held a webinar on wildfire smoke in Iowa. We have posted a recording of the event here.

Saeideh Mohammadi, Chris Brunet, and Behrooz Roozitalab at the Community Earth System Model Workshop at the National Center for Atmospheric Research

Ozone, nitrogen dioxide, and PM2.5 estimation from observation-model machine learning fusion over S. Korea: Influence of observation density, chemical transport model resolution, and geostationary remotely sensed AOD

Led by Chris Brunet of Heri Hornbuckle's research group, this paper summarizes the VMS measurements from the rooftop field campaign in summer 2022 at CUNY in Manhattan, specifically in Harlem. The title is "Concentrations of Volatile Methyl Siloxanes in New York City Reflect Emissions from Personal Care and Industrial Use"

This paper, led by Jeewani Meepage in Betsy Stone's group, looks at the series of siloxanol aerosols formed from oxidation of decamethylpentasiloxane (D5), a common ingredient in personal care products. Samples from New York City ambient air are compared to laboratory oxidation products.

I will be joining other chapter authors of Tending Iowa's Land by Connie Mutel, to hold a Senior College class that will explore some of the themes in the book: thriving rural communities, growing food, protecting soil, resiliency to climate change, reestablishing water quality in Iowa.

Activity around Iowa City in March on the topics of air quality and wildfire, catalyzed the Facing the Inferno exhibit at Pentacrest Museums

We pull together all of the aerosol observations from the Zion site of the Lake Michigan Ozone Study 2017, and comment on the absence of a detectable ultrafine mode in lake spray aerosol.

Marisol Contreras's paper, "Technoeconomic Analysis of Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Production from Desalination Waste Brine using Concentrated Solar Flux," has been published in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.

The Stanier research group at the University of Iowa has a new research project as part of the Mid-America Transportation Center. The project title is "Protecting People in Midwest Road and Transport Systems During Periods of Extreme Heat."

Canada’s seemingly endless wildfires in 2023 introduced millions of people across North America to the health hazards of wildfire smoke. While Western states have contended with smoky fire seasons for years, the air quality alerts across the U.S. Midwest and Northeast this summer reached levels never seen there before.

Charles Stanier is a co-author of the online textbook Iowa 8th Grade Science Bundles: Applying Science to Iowa.