A team of 50 scientists from the Lower 48 and Europe have converged on Fairbanks for a seven-week winter research project. The project, however, does not focus on snow or ice, but rather on poor air quality the city experiences quite often in the winter.
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“Fairbanks is actually a decent kind of testbed for studying air pollution in other sort of high-latitude, cold population centers,” said Ellis Robinson, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow with Johns Hopkins University. “From up on the ski hill, yeah, you can often see a more opaque, sort of more tinged, brown colored air at the lowest kind of part of the basin, where this sits often,” he said.The project is twofold. First, the team will be studying how the very cold temperatures, climate, and strong inversions influence the vertical nature of the pollution, often trapping it close to the surface.
“And at that house, we’re studying air inside the house and outside the house to understand how the particles that are outside infiltrate into the house, and how sources inside the house may also affect the air quality inside the house. ‘What’s in my house, and can I protect myself? Can filters, for instance, reduce the particles in the house?’” Simpson asked.
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