EPA Awards Columbia University and Cornell
University Climate Change Grants
Columbia and Cornell Universities to Receive a Combined $1.5
Million
(New York, N.Y. – September 18, 2012) The U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency has awarded Columbia University and Cornell
University almost $750,000 each to study the relationship between air pollution,
weather and climate change. The grants are two of 14 that the EPA awarded to
universities across the nation to fund research on technologies that can help
the public and government agencies predict and prepare for the effects that
extreme weather triggered by climate change can have on the nation’s air and
water quality.
“By
gaining a better understanding of how extreme weather impacts our natural
resources, we can allow communities to be in a better position to respond to the
effects of climate change,” said EPA Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck. “The
research Columbia and Cornell are performing in this area will help ensure
better prepared communities.”
The
project at Columbia University will use state-of-the-art statistical techniques
to find correlations between weather and extremes in ozone and particulate air
pollution levels. Projections made from these techniques will be presented in
ways that can be used by air quality managers in their long-term
planning.
The
project at Cornell University will study the use a statistical technique called
an extreme value theory, which is used to assess the probability of events that
are more extreme than those previously observed, to examine air pollution in the
U.S. to determine how extremes in weather and air pollution are related. The
Cornell researchers will investigate both present-day and projected future
climate scenarios.
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