Georgia Tech Georgia Power Environmental Engineering Fellows at (and beyond) Georgia Tech Georgia Tech Objective of Georgia Power Fellowships Attract top notch graduate students to Tech Facilitate research in areas of interest to Georgia Power Educate students in areas of interest to Georgia Power for future employment Enhance communication between Georgia Power and Georgia Tech in the environmental areas Georgia Tech Past and Current Fellows Katie Wade (now at Sonoma Technologies) Continuing to conduct air quality studies with health applications Diane Ivy Miranda Lowe Yu Miyashita Air Quality Studies in CEE: A Sampler Armistead (Ted) Russell, Georgia Power Professor Measurement Model Development Model Application Policy / Health (www.ce.gatech.edu/~trussell) Georgia Institute of Technology Siggraph Scientific Visualization Winner Source Impacts 3-D Air quality models Sensitivity analysis Air quality measurements Georgia Tech Why A Sampler? Range of Georgia Power relevant (and supported) studies a bit too much for 15 minutes Assessment of Spatial Aerosol Composition in Atlanta (ASACA) (GP funds) Fall Line Air Quality Study (EPD + GP/SC) Roadway Study (GP +EPA funds) ARIES (NIH, EPA, EPRI, SC, GP; with Emory) (Prof. Mulholland) Source apportionment of PM in Georgia (GP + EPA) Impact of NE Blackout (GP funds) Satellite and aircraft data assimilation (NASA) Sources of organic carbon aerosol (EPA + GP/SC) PM & ozone in the Mexico-US border region (LAUSPAU) Air quality management of regional air pollution (EPA + RFF) Climate and Air Quality (EPA) Prescribed burn impacts and management Georgia Tech Why A Sampler? Range of Georgia Power relevant (and supported) studies a bit too much for 15 minutes Assessment of Spatial Aerosol Composition in Atlanta (ASACA) (GP funds) Fall Line Air Quality Study (EPD + GP/SC) Roadway Study (GP +EPA funds) ARIES (NIH, EPA, EPRI, SC, GP; with Emory) (Prof. Mulholland) Source apportionment of PM in Georgia (GP + EPA) Impact of NE Blackout (GP funds) Satellite and aircraft data assimilation (NASA) Sources of organic carbon aerosol (EPA + GP/SC) PM & ozone in the Mexico-US border region (LAUSPAU) Air quality management of regional air pollution (EPA + RFF) Climate and Air Quality (EPA) Prescribed burn impacts and management Georgia Tech Particulate Matter Concern due to health and visibility impacts Atlanta in non-attainment Complex mixture of solid and liquid particles suspended in the ambient air Size classifications super-coarse > 10m coarse (PM 10 ) < 10m fine (PM 2.5 ) < 2.5m ultrafine < 0.1m Many sources Many chemical species: Ozone (a gas) also of concern Health effects Atlanta is in non-attainment Georgia Tech ASACA (GP funded) ASACA System of four monitoring locations around Atlanta Continuous PM 2.5 Daily PM 2.5 composition Continuous since 1999 Designed to Complement SEARCH Provide unprecedented spatial, compositional and temporal coverage in Atlanta SEARCH+STN+ASACA Provide data for Health (ARIES) Model evaluation Targets of opportunity (Fire!) Student (UG & Grad) training Georgia Tech Capturing a Forest Fire February 28 th, acre planned burned 70 km SE of Atlanta Winds shift PM levels climb from