Global Changes and Society graduate students of 2015 encourage the University community to get to campus in ways that will not contribute to air pollution. Read about the five projects the class designed to move the University of Utah toward cleaner air.
Read MoreUniversity of Utah researchers have a new tool for understanding the Salt Lake valley’s air quality issues. Hestia is an innovative data product for air quality research and solutions-focused applications. Hestia characterizes and quantifies hourly carbon dioxide emissions at the building and road-segment levels, and also generates criteria pollutant emission estimates. Read more on U […]
Read MoreMobile sample collection via urban transit is gathering critical data on air pollution in the Salt Lake valley. A group of U of U researchers have collaborated on a project to better quantify the concentrations of greenhouse gases and pollutants that hover, in varying concentrations, over the valley. The researchers—from the Land-Atmosphere Interactions Research (LAIR) group […]
Read MoreStudents in the Global Changes and Society course drew on their experience in this interdisciplinary course, and have published a paper on project-based, interdisciplinary training in the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. “How society responds to increasing vulnerability and change will be a defining characteristic of the 21st century. Training students to address […]
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