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EPA Awards $8 Million to UCLA-led Research Team for New Studies of Particulate Matter in Los Angeles BasinDate: November 22, 2005Contact: Dan Page (email)Phone: (310) 794-2265 A UCLA-led research team has received an $8 million grant from the Environmental Protection Agency for new studies of airborne particulate matter in the Los Angeles Basin - the most polluted airshed in the United States. The five-year grant to researchers at the Southern California Particle Center will fund investigations into how exposure to airborne particulates affects health and how the impact varies with the source, chemical composition and physical size. The six-year-old Southern California Particle Center is a unit of the UCLA Center for Occupational and Environmental Health at the UCLA School of Public Health. Other Southern California Particle Center research partners include the University of California, Irvine; Michigan State University; University of Southern California; University of Tsukuba, Japan; and University of Wisconsin, Madison. "The opportunity to build on our success is tremendously exciting and important to the future health of the residents of the region, nation and the world," said John Froines, professor of environmental health sciences at the UCLA School of Public Health and director of the UCLA Center for Occupational and Environmental Health. "During our first five years, the center has fostered an unprecedented collaborative energy among some of the nation's top air pollution investigators and produced a unique and important body of new research on particulate matter." "We are pleased to team up with one of the premier learning institutions on the West Coast to better address one of Southern California's most pressing environmental health issues," said Deborah Jordan, the U.S. EPA's air division director for the Pacific Southwest Region. "With this grant, UCLA will be able to build on the success the school has already had and further the EPA's understanding of particulate matter exposure and its health effects on adults and children." The grant will fund four priority research projects to be conducted in the Los Angeles Basin:
The topography and climate of the Los Angeles Basin contribute to the area's high air pollution potential. Several studies, including those of the Southern California Particle Center's Southern California Supersite, show the basin comprises distinct microclimates with varying levels of a range of particulates and other pollutants. In contrast, particulate content in most metropolitan airsheds in the eastern United States is distributed more uniformly. The basin's predictable and well-defined meteorology is well suited for controlled, laboratory-style experiments using particulate matter. Afternoon sunlight, persistence of fog and low clouds trigger atmospheric reactions that form secondary pollutants. Key findings and results from the Southern California Particle Center's first six years include:<
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