News and Media
8/9/04 - Asian Grit Aloft in New England (Boston Globe)- Scientists engaged in a major study of air quality and climate change have discovered pollutants from Asia hanging high over New England and the Atlantic this summer one of the early surprises of research aimed at clarifying how smokestack and auto emissions travel and change in the atmosphere. more...
8/5/04 - Blowing in the wind: transatlantic pollution (Christian Science Monitor) - Researchers have suggested that if emissions from algae are widespread, they could have a significant effect on cloud formation - hence on climate.
7/20/04 - American Air Pollution - video from CBS about NEAQS
6/28/04 - Largest Air Quality and Climate Study Starts In New England, Federal and University Partners Launch International Experiment (NOA News) - Hundreds of government and university scientists from across the country and in western Europe will be sampling the quality of the air this summer in the largest air quality and climate study to date as part of the International Consortium for Atmospheric Research on Transport and Transformation. more...
3/22/04 - UNH Begins New Air-Quality Research Program (Portsmouth Herald) - U.S. Sen Judd Gregg visisted the University of New Hampshire on Thursday to announce the kickoff of the largest air-quality research program ever conducted. more...
3/18/04 - NOAA and Partners Take to Air, Land, and Sea to Study New England Air Quality (NOAA Public Affairs) - NOAA scientists and their colleagues from other government agencies, academia, and the international science community will conduct the largest air quality study in New England this summer. NOAA is an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce. more...
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