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Despite their extremely small size, submicron atmospheric aerosols are critical pollutants with climate change, air quality, and human health implications. Of these particles, secondary organic aerosols (SOA) form when volatile organic compounds (VOCs) oxidize to lower volatility products that bond with and increase aerosol particle size, or in some cases, they may simply exist by themselves. SOA constitutes a significant fraction of the global aerosol mass. Scientists are attempting to improve future aerosol modeling, but several discrepancies still exist between model-simulated and field-observed SOA budgets. Large uncertainties in model assessments of SOA budgets and correspondingly, its climate effects, motivated extensive research to find out why these exist. said Prof. Lin Du from the Environmental Research Institute, Shandong University. Biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) produced by terrestrial vegetation are globally major SOA precursors, and t
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Seth Tuler is an Associate Professor in the Department of Integrative and Global Studies, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA and Senior Researcher at the Social and Environmental Research Institute, Shelburne, MA. He works in the areas of risk governance, public participation, and social issues in hazard management. From 2003 to 2006, he served on the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Transportation of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste. Together with Eugene A. Rosa, Thomas Webler, Sharon Friedman, and Roger Kasperson, Tuler provided input to the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future about public and stakeholder engagement options. They wrote two commissioned reports on social distrust in the spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste management system, and options for public participation. Early in the Commission’s process, they and 11 co-authors wrote an article in the journal
Thomas Webler
Thomas Webler is a founding member and senior researcher at the Social and Environmental Research Institute (SERI). He is also an Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Keene State College, New Hampshire. He served on the Nuclear Energy Agency’s Forum for Stakeholder Confidence from 2002 to 2008. From 2013 to 2016 he worked to help the Department of Energy develop a process to develop a consent-based siting process. His research specializes in bringing local and expert knowledge together in collaborative ways to find solutions to problems of environmental management and technological risk.
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