The Fairbanks winter air quality study (FairAir) is a part of an international consortium of more than twenty institutions that are organized under the Alaskan Layered Pollution and Chemical Analysis – 2022 (ALPACA-2022) scientific field study. The study was carried out in January and February, 2022, and details on participants, …
Join us at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 17 for a virtual tour of the downtown air quality research site. Instruments located at UAF CTC are collecting data that will help scientists better understand chemical processing of pollution in cold and dark conditions. What questions do you have? Click below to …
A key component of the Fair Air project is the Alaskan Layered Pollution and Chemical Analysis (ALPACA) 2022 field project. This study brings forty scientists from across the lower 48 and Europe to come to Fairbanks to work with UAF scientists and study air pollution under cold and dark conditions. …
Announcing FairAir Talks: A virtual three-part series exploring indoor air quality issues in Interior Alaska. Every other Wednesday, beginning Jan. 20 at 6 p.m., atmospheric scientists will discuss a range of topics, from the aerosols and dust that we breathe indoors to the effects of wildfire smoke on human health. …
Due to the challenges posed by the emergence of COVID-19 our team has made the decision to postpone the air pollution measurements originally planned for January-February 2021 and the citizen science indoor air quality study planned for August 2020- March 2021 by a year. Our main activities are now …
The Fairbanks Winter Air Study research team Bill Simpson, Laura Conner, Nathan Kettle, and Krista Heeringa were joined by North Pole community members February 4th, and Fairbanks community members on February 6th to present planned research activities and listen to community concerns. These events highlighted planned research that will kick …
The National Science Foundation has announced the funding of a major “Navigating the New Arctic’ project called SNAP-TEC, which is summarized below. We are very excited to be doing this study and look forward to learning more about how to navigate through Arctic air pollution. Sustainably Navigating Arctic Pollution …
