Connecting climate change, air pollution, energy and human health

Event time: 
Tuesday, September 24, 2019 - 12:00pm
60 CollegeStreet (LEPH) Room101 See map New Haven, CT
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Jason West is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His work aims to understand the relationships between air pollution and climate change, the connections of these problems with energy and human health, and their relevance for science and policy on local through global scales. Using computer models, Dr. West’s lab studies the chemistry and transport air pollutants and heat trapping gases, the effects of climate change on air quality, the effects of air pollutants on global public health, and strategies to address the challenges of air pollution and climate change simultaneously. Dr. West is currently a member of NASA’s Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team, and recently served on the Scientific Steering Committee of the International Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution.

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