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DTSTART:20131105T180500Z
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LOCATION:4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
SUMMARY:Optimizing the design of air pollution control measures to imp
 rove human health\, Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar\, Jamie Schauer\, 
 UW Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
DESCRIPTION:Hundreds of studies have clearly demonstrated that higher 
 levels of air pollution are associated with increases in adverse healt
 h effects in human populations.  The adverse health effects associated
  with air pollution exposure include mortality and morbidity that are 
 linked to respiratory disease\, cardiovascular disease\, and reproduct
 ive complications.  As one of the largest environmental risk factors\,
  the economic costs or air pollution have been estimated to be over on
 e trillion dollars per year in the USA alone.  However\, the costs ass
 ociated with mitigation of air pollution are not trivial and policies 
 for air pollution mitigation often face political and social barriers.
   As more effective and efficient control strategies are sought to red
 uce the impacts of air pollution\, a robust understanding of how reduc
 tion in the emissions from specific sources will change the compositio
 n of air pollution and reduce the adverse impacts of air pollution.  G
 iven the complexity of air pollution sources\, air pollution transport
  and transformations\, and the biological pathways of disease associat
 ed with air pollution exposure\; quantifying these relationships requi
 re an understanding of a number of very complex and integrated systems
 .   These systems include: 1) the design and operations of mobile sour
 ces of air pollution\, stationary power generation\, residential air p
 ollution sources\, and industrial emissions of air pollution\; 2) the 
 physical and chemical processes of impacting the transport and transfo
 rmations of pollutants in the atmosphere\; 3) the behavioral activitie
 s of people that lead to exposures of air pollution\, 4) the biologica
 l susceptibility of the exposure populations\, and 5) the pathways of 
 disease associated with exposure to air pollution.  This seminar will 
 provide background about these systems important to understand the hea
 lth effects of air pollution\, as well as research methods that are be
 ing used to bridge across the highly diverse domains. 
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=3073
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