The focus of the Center for Air Resources Engineering and Science (CARES) is to provide a better and more complete scientific basis for air quality management including the understanding of the sources, transport, and chemistry that give rise to indoor and outdoor exposure to air pollutants including noise, their potential health and welfare effects, and ways in which these effects can be reduced or eliminated.
CARES brings together the world-class expertise that is available at Clarkson. This expertise is focused in air sampling and analysis, receptor modeling, atmospheric deposition, and the application of computational fluid dynamics to air pollution problems.
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Our Focus
We have studied air quality indoors and outdoors at various levels of scale from individual houses for radon and radon decay products, PM10, aeroallergens and endotoxin to semiglobal transport of airborne particulate matter.
Our Experience And Interest In The Four PCIA Central Focus Areas
None
We are focused on monitoring and evaluation of combustion technologies so we can provide assistance in developing these capabilities and standardizing measurement protocols.
We have extensive experience in monitoring ambient and indoor air quality for conventional and non-conventional pollutants as well as monitoring the indicators of health effects such as No in exhaled breath and nitrate in and pH of exhaled breath condensate.
Relevant Publications or Studies
Indoor Air Pollution from Particulate Matter Emissions in Different Households in Rural Areas of Bangladesh, B.A. Begum, S.K. Paul, M.D. Hossain, S.K. Biswas, Building and Environment (in press, 2009).
Our Contribution to the Partnership
We would assist in monitoring and transfer of monitoring capabilities.
