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Joan Daisey, Distinguished Indoor Air Quality Expert, Dies
JOAN DAISEY, ONE OF AMERICA'S LEADING indoor air quality EXPERTS. the environmentalEnergy Technologies (EET) Division's indoor environment Department, with a 60
http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/joan-daisey-obit.html

Extractions: BERKELEY, CA Joan Daisey, 59, senior staff scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and one of the nation's leading experts on indoor air quality, passed away on Feb. 29 at Alta Bates Hospital after a long illness. JOAN DAISEY, ONE OF AMERICA'S LEADING INDOOR AIR QUALITY EXPERTS A physical chemist by training, Daisey was at Berkeley Lab for 14 years and headed the Environmental Energy Technologies (EET) Division's Indoor Environment Department, with a 60-person staff and a budget of more than $6 million per year. She was also Chair of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Science Advisory Board, an influential national board that helps guide the direction of EPA research. Born in New York City, Daisey received her B.A. in chemistry from Georgian Court College in New Jersey in 1962 and her Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Seton Hall University in 1970. With more than 25 years of research experience, Daisey's more than 100 publications focused on organic pollutants and indoor and outdoor air particles. Her work in this field included studies of the physical and chemical nature, sources, transport, and fate of pollutants, as well as exposure assessment and exposure pathways. "Joan's contributions as an outstanding researcher within the Department, as an advocate for linking indoor and outdoor air quality research, and as a national leader on environmental research were magnificent," said Mark Levine, Division Director of EET. "Equally, we will miss her joy in doing research, her impatience with impediments to progress, her sense of humor, and her acceptance of her co-workers as friends and part of her extended family."
BUBL LINK / 5:15 Internet Resources: Air Quality
Author environment Agency Subjects air quality waste management, water quality DeweyClass628 canada Last checked 20000910 indoor air quality Considers the
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/a/airquality.htm

Extractions: BUBL LINK / 5:15 Catalogue of Internet Resources Home Search Subject Menus A-Z ... About A-Z Index Titles Descriptions AIRNOW: Real Time Air Pollution Data aric Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center Environment Agency of England and Wales ... World Meteorological Organisation Page last updated: 17 March 2003 Comments: bubl@bubl.ac.uk AIRNOW: Real Time Air Pollution Data Resource concerned with air quality and ozone throughout the US. Includes maps which provide real-time air pollution data, information about public health and the environmental effects of air pollution, and suggestions of ways in which the public can protect their health and reduce pollution. Also features Webcam images and publications such as the Air Quality Index Rule and Guidelines for Reporting of Daily Air Quality.
BFRL Staff Profiles / Building Environment Division - Steven J. Nabinger
Position. Mechanical Engineer indoor air quality and Ventilation GroupBuilding environment Division Building and Fire Research Laboratory,
http://www2.bfrl.nist.gov/profiles/profiles.asp?lastname=nabinger
BFRL Staff Profiles / Building Environment Division - Andrew K.
1982 Position. Leader indoor air quality and Ventilation Group BuildingEnvironment Division Building and Fire Research Laboratory,
http://www2.bfrl.nist.gov/profiles/profiles.asp?lastname=persily
Indoor Air Quality: Molds And Dust, CDFS-191-96
in the air determine air quality. Potential sources contaminants deliberately introducedinto the indoor environment. outdoor air replaces indoor air is the
http://ohioline.osu.edu/cd-fact/0191.html

Extractions: Jacqueline LaMuth Research indicates that people spend approximately 90% of their time indoors. So, the risks to human health may be greater due to exposure to air pollution indoors than outdoors. Further, those people who may be most susceptible to the adverse effects of indoor air pollution are those who tend to spend the greatest amount of time indoors. Such groups include young children, the elderly and the chronically ill. This fact sheet will examine molds, house dust, and other biologicals that can reduce the quality of indoor air. It will offer suggestions for minimizing, eliminating and preventing contact with molds and dust. The amounts and kinds of contaminants that are suspended in the air determine air "quality." Potential sources of indoor air pollution fall into several categories including: nitrogen dioxide, respirable particles (particles that can be drawn into the lungs), formaldehyde, asbestos, organic gasses, pesticides, lead, and biologicals. Biological contaminants are naturally occurring air pollutants that come from living (biological) sources; they are commonly called "house dust." House dust is not dust that blows in from the outside. House dust is produced indoors from several sources:
EPA National News 1. SCHOOLS ACROSS THE COUNTRY HONORED AT
ACROSS THE COUNTRY HONORED AT NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM FOR indoor environment IMPROVEMENTS,2. EPA PARTICIPATES IN FIRST ANNUAL INTERAMERICAN air quality DAY, 3
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/b1ab9f485b098972852562e7004dc686/ce9e08
EPA National News SCHOOLS AWARDED FOR HEALTHY INDOOR AIR
on our children's health. Good indoor air quality contributes toa favorable learning environment. The Tools for Schools program
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/b1ab9f485b098972852562e7004dc686/8fcae9
GOTWH: Indoor Air Quality
US EPA indoor air quality Information Clearinghouse PO Box 37133 Washington, DC20013 URL http// solstice.crest.org/ environment/ gotwh/ general/iaq/index
http://solstice.crest.org/environment/gotwh/general/iaq/

Extractions: Table of Contents The materials found in our homes, factories, and offices, while seeming ordinary and commonplace, can contribute to the degradation of an often overlooked environmental measure: Indoor Air Quality. Compounded by ever more stringent energy conservation measures which can limit the ventilation in these spaces, the air we breathe indoors can pose threats to us now undreamt of in the days of draftier buildings. Sources can be external or internal, biological or chemical in nature. External chemical ones include industrial and construction sources; exhausts from heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment and autos; radon, and other soil gases; pesticides and fertilizers. External biological contaminants can come from standing water which promotes mold growth. Graphics in this section courtesy U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Carrier Corporation: U.S. EPA Indoor Air Division
ASHRAE News Release -
for Papers Announced IAQ 2004 Examines Impact of IAQ Standards On Healing environment.ATLANTA The critical role that indoor air quality (IAQ) performance
http://xp20.ashrae.org/NEWS/2003_iaq2004.htm

Extractions: Call for Papers Announced IAQ 2004 Examines Impact of IAQ Standards On Healing Environment ASHRAE NEWS RELEASE For Release: March 11, 2003 Contact: Jodi Dunlop Public Relations 404/636-8400, ext.612 jdunlop@ashrae.org Call for Papers Announced IAQ 2004 Examines Impact of IAQ Standards On Healing Environment ATLANTA The critical role that indoor air quality (IAQ) performance standards provide in support of health care facilities will be examined at the IAQ 2004 conference sponsored by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) and the American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE). The conference, IAQ 2004 Critical Operations: Supporting the Healing Environment Through IAQ Performance Standards, will be held March 15-17, 2004, at the Tampa Convention Center, Tampa, Fla. Healthy indoor air is critical in providing a safe and beneficial environment for patients, health care workers and visitors to health care facilities. Providing acceptable indoor air poses unique challenges because of the diversity of functions carried out in hospitals, the sources of potential contamination, and the presence of immuno-suppressed and other highly susceptible populations, according to John F. McCarthy, conference chair. Existing IAQ standards can provide an effective way of improving the indoor environment for the health care sector. Innovations in medical technologies and development of advanced diagnostic, surgical and therapeutic services have put an additional burden on engineers, scientists and health care administrators to continuously improve environmental performance standards.
WHO Guidelines For Air Quality, 1999
and Humanitarian Action (EHA) Department of Protection of the Human environment (PHE)Occupational and 2. air quality and Health. 4. indoor air quality, html, pdf.
http://www.who.int/peh/air/Airqualitygd.htm

Extractions: pdf 3. Health-based Guidelines html pdf 4. Indoor Air Quality html pdf 5. Ambient Air Quality Monitoring and Assessment html pdf 6. Air Quality Management html pdf 7. Priority setting in Air Quality Management html pdf Annex 1 - Bibliographical references html pdf Annex 2 - Acronyms html Annex 3 - Glossary html Annex 4 - Environmental Health Criteria Documents html Annex 5 - Participants list html Last updated on: 13-Aug-2002
Indoor Air Quality & Green Buildings
our buildings, and the environment that surrounds them. energy efficiency and conservation,air quality (including indoor air quality), resources and
http://www.southface.org/home/sfpubs/sfjv198/iaqmyth.html

Extractions: Compatibility: Fact or Fiction? by H. E. Barney Burroughs Recent design and construction trends look at buildings as "habitats," with ecological and environmental impacts. Though some have assumed that indoor air quality (IAQ) concerns are compatible with a "green" indoor ecosystem, when design and construction are examined in detail, certain tactics done in the name of "greening" can actually have contrary IAQ implications. The "green building" movement, emerging in the '90s, is a significant driver of concerns for the indoor environment. The U.S. Green Building Council has defined "green buildings" as "structures that are designed, renovated, constructed, operated, and eventually demolished in an environmentally and energy efficient manner with least impact upon our global and internal environment." An obvious outcome of the green building trend is to think of the building as an ecosystems "habitat" representing the delicate and fragile interrelationship and interdependence between us as occupants, our buildings, and the environment that surrounds them. This requires a holistic view of buildings that includes energy efficiency and conservation, air quality (including indoor air quality), resources and materials efficiency, and improved environmental performance and quality in the air, water, and on the land. The habitat concept leads us to the need for a fuller understanding of the indoor environment. This includes the air within the conditioned space where we breathe and work. It includes the complete air path and the systems to which it has been exposed-it is clean, dry, free of contamination and microbial growth and pathogens? Is the building envelope sound, visually pleasing, and well sealed? How is the building sited and what is the role of greenery and landscaping, natural lighting, noise levels, odor, or pollutant sources. Lastly, what is the impact of the building habitat upon the global environment- its energy demand, pollutants, and waste products (air, solids, and waste water), demands upon raw material resources, and even the consumption of financial capital.
Links
on the indoor environment International Centre for indoor environment and Energy Californiaair Resources Board California indoor air quality Program Division
http://www.ie.dtu.dk/isiaq/links.asp
The Center For Energy And Environment
internal environment of a home more compatible with external aircraft noise. CEEprovides such services as community/homeowner relations, indoor air quality
http://www.mncee.org/index2.htm

Extractions: About CEE The Center for Energy and Environment (CEE) is an independent, nonprofit organization that works to promote the responsible and efficient use of natural and economic resources. CEE accomplishes this mission through program development and delivery, research, evaluation and public policy initiatives. CEE has provided energy, environmental and housing rehabilitation services to utilities, private corporations, neighborhood organizations, municipalities and public agencies for over eighteen years. These services include financing, building audits, technical research, program design and delivery and evaluations. CEE provides the experience and pragmatism necessary to address complex community, environmental, and energy related issues in order to find practical solutions that protect the global environment and improve the local economy. Services We Provide CEE's research and engineering staff consists of experienced engineers, architects, computer programmers and statistical analysts. CEE's technical staff is well-known for its analysis of energy use in buildings and has received national recognition for its research, evaluations, and practical solutions to energy and environmental problems.
Events
air duct cleaning. Particles and particle entry into the indoor environment.indoor air quality modeling. Costs of managing indoor air quality.
http://www.awma.org/events/confs/IAQ2003/default.asp

Extractions: Research Triangle Park, NC Indoor Air Quality Problems and Engineering Solutions , an international symposium cosponsored by the Air and Waste Management Association and the U.S. EPAs Office of Research and Development, will be held July 21-23, 2003 , in Research Triangle Park, NC, at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel and Convention Center. Papers will be presented on the following topics: Click here to view the preliminary program!
Indoor Environment Notebook: About Thad Godish, Ph.D.
University. He directs the university's indoor air quality/indoor environmentresearch, teaching and public service activities. His
http://www.bsu.edu/web/IEN/about.htm

Extractions: Dr. Thad Godish is professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Management at Ball State University. He directs the university's indoor air quality/indoor environment research, teaching and public service activities. His research studies have included: formaldehyde contamination of residences and associated health problems; mold contamination of buildings/sampling methods; building radon; indoor air quality problems in school buildings; emissions from combustion appliances/combusted materials; sick building syndrome; and lead-based paint contamination in residences. He has served as an indoor air quality and industrial hygiene consultant, conducting air quality investigations in hundreds of buildings including residences, private and municipal offices, schools, hospitals and industrial facilities. He has been an expert witness in numerous personal injury legal claims associated with building environments. He is a certified industrial hygienist. Dr. Godish is the author of four books:
Harvard Gazette: Spengler Shares Heinz Award For The Environment
with a focus that integrated the study of the environment, health, and role in raisingpublic consciousness over healthrelated issues of indoor air quality.
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/02.27/10-heinz.html

Extractions: News News, events, features Science/Research Latest scientific findings Profiles The people behind the university Community Harvard and neighbor communities Sports Scores, highlights, upcoming games On Campus Newsmakers, notes, students, police log Arts Museums, concerts, theater Calendar Two-week listing of upcoming events John Spengler John D. Spengler, the Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation in the Faculty of the School of Public Health (SPH), has been named a co-recipient of the ninth annual Heinz Award for the Environment. Together with 1995 Nobel Prize-winner Mario J. Molina of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he is being recognized for his groundbreaking contributions toward understanding the impact of air pollution on human health. Working independently though often on parallel paths, Molina and Spengler each pursued a range of scientific explorations related to global warming and air pollution, particularly indoor air pollution. Their collective careers, with a focus that integrated the study of the environment, health, and technology, have fostered greater global awareness of the effects of air pollution, ozone depletion, and fossil-fuel combustion. The two, who join four other Heinz Award recipients, will share the $250,000 award. "Molina and Spengler are extraordinary men of science who have passionately advanced their scientific findings into the corridors of public policy, the lecture halls of academia, and living rooms around the world," said Teresa Heinz, chairman of the Heinz Family Foundation.
Health And Environment - Children's Health Initiative
informed about how the school environment can affect of improving the school air qualityon the and after implementing good indoor air quality management, such
http://www.neetf.org/Health/childrens.shtm

Extractions: Advanced Search There are more than 54 million children and 2.3 million teachers in our K-12 schools today. Every child and every teacher should have a right to go to a school that is environmentally clean, safe and well designed. They have a right to a school learning environment with fresh clean indoor air, safe water, exposure to the out of doors and exercise and where health risks from toxicants such as chemical pesticides would be a non-factor. The need for focusing on schools is twofold: children are the most susceptible to environmental risk factors and the school is the place where they spend most of their time next to their home. Recognizing this as an important public health issue, recently the American Public Health Association (APHA) adopted a policy statement entitled "Creating Healthier School Facilities".* NEETF supports this concept in important ways: A Healthy Schools program that provides guidance and useful information to school systems and school construction programs on the management and design of schools that minimize potential health risks due to environmental factors. NEETF partners with other groups, which promote healthier schools, supports "Coalition for Healthier Schools" as well as other initiatives which promote healthier school designs.
Best Global Warming, Emissions, And Climate Change Websites
Protection Agency (EPA) indoor air quality Program provides a resource centeron indoor air quality as part of the EPA's indoor environment Division.
http://www.care2.com/channels/ecoinfo/global_warming

Extractions: California Air Quality Program - The Department of California Health Services has an Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Program to conduct and promote the coordination of research, investigations, experiments, demonstrations, surveys, and studies relating to the causes, effects, extent, prevention, and control of indoor pollution in California.
Cornell News: Indoor Air Pollution Book
environmental quality problem, what factors can affect the indoor environment, howto investigate health complaints, what effects indoor air quality may have
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Dec98/healthy.buildings.ssl.html

Extractions: ITHACA, N.Y. Each year, thousands of people get flu-like symptoms from the buildings they live or work in. Causes range from air pollutants, allergens, pathogens and poor ventilation to exposed asbestos insulation and inadequate light. A new book, Keeping Buildings Healthy: How To Monitor and Prevent Indoor Environment Problems (New York: Wiley-Interscience, $79.95, 361 pages), is aimed at helping both building managers and owners resolve existing indoor air problems and preventing future environmental problems. Alan Hedge, professor of design and environmental analysis at Cornell University and director of Cornell's Human Factors Laboratory, is one of the authors of the book, which considers the environment in both manufacturing and office buildings. Covering legal, medical, industrial hygiene and engineering issues, the book's 17 chapters address how to know if a building has an indoor environmental quality problem, what factors can affect the indoor environment, how to investigate health complaints, what effects indoor air quality may have on health, government building inspections, laws and building management, options to sue, insurance law and case studies. Hedge's recent research has looked at the effects of alternative smoking policies on indoor air quality and sick-building syndrome, and the effects of personal and occupational factors on the syndrome. Hedge authored four chapters of the book, including those on research about indoor environmental quality concerns, the behavioral aspects of investigating health complaints and communicating results of investigations.
The Environment At MIT - MIT's Commitment - Health And Safety Innitiatives - Ind
Then it's time to contact the EHS Office, which addresses a range of concerns relatedto indoor air quality, ventilation, and the quality of drinking water.
http://web.mit.edu/environment/commitment/health_safety_initiatives/water_qualit

Extractions: You may not give much thought to the air you breathe or the water you drink until something seems "off." Maybe the new carpet in your office has a strange smell, the water from the drinking fountain tastes funny, or you sometimes get a headache when you work in your lab. Then it's time to contact the EHS Office, which addresses a range of concerns related to indoor air quality, ventilation, and the quality of drinking water. The EHS Office can investigate, identify the likely source of a problem, and provide recommendations for how to remedy the situation. Better yet, we can help you proactively plan environments for work, study, research, or residential life that meet a high standard for indoor air and water quality.

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