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Completed
Program Goal
To grow a new field of scientific inquiry focused on understanding the fundamental chemistry taking place in indoor environments and how that chemistry is shaped by building attributes and human occupancy.
Strategy
The program makes grants to achieve a series of interrelated goals.
- Generate new knowledge by directly supporting original, high-quality research to identify indoor chemical sources, characterize the chemical and physical transformations taking place indoors, and determine how indoor chemistry is shaped by building attributes and occupancy.
- Develop a modeling consortium to improve the cohesiveness of the community and its ability to integrate findings.
- Build a thriving, multidisciplinary research community of chemists; environmental, civil, and mechanical engineers; architects; atmospheric scientists; microbiologists; and environmental health experts that will endure beyond the program’s timeline.
- Train the next generation of scholars and practitioners. An important component of this program is introducing new voices into the field and training the next generation of researchers.
- Develop community-wide research protocols, and norms.
- Advance capacity for discovery through development of new tools for data collection, sampling, analysis, and visualization.
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University of Colorado, Boulder
Sweat ,bleach and gym air quality
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News-Optimist
Bleach-alternative surface disinfectants may pollute indoor air
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Proceedings of the NAS
Inner Workings: How human biology and behavior affect indoor air quality
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University of California, Irvine
With more people staying home, UCI-led research on health effects of indoor air quality takes on new urgency
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Colorado State University
Global summit on science and innovation for reopening workplaces safely starts this week
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IndoorChem
What's in the air we breathe? A primer on air pollution
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Chemistry of Indoor Environments
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Completed
Program Goal
To grow a new field of scientific inquiry focused on understanding the fundamental chemistry taking place in indoor environments and how that chemistry is shaped by building attributes and human occupancy.
Strategy
The program makes grants to achieve a series of interrelated goals.
Generate new knowledge by directly supporting original, high-quality research to ident…