Interdisciplinary Biomass Burning Initiative (Polish Research Draft)

An interdisciplinary and collaborative initiative in palliative care research

The scale and complexity of palliative care increasingly demands that researchers move beyond their own discipline and explore interdisciplinary collaboration. At a Palliative Care Research Retreat held in January 2006 at the Toronto Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre, researchers from multiple care settings with the center and from other Toronto hospitals came together with the vision of becomi...

Indoor particulate concentration during biomass burning in central India

Indoor air particulate (PM) exposure is several folds more dangerous than  outdoor air  owing to burning of different materials. Burning biomass emits toxic fumes that are found to be associated with  numerous health problems  such as respiratory diseases, etc. In our study area,  approximately 80% of the population of Chhattisgarh state, central India use biomass  such as wood, and cow dung as...

A Shallow Draft Vehicle for Interdisciplinary Research and Education

Water quality data collection in shallow water areas can be a challenging task. Obstacles encountered in such environments include difficulty in covering large territories and the presence of inaccessible areas due to a variety of reasons such as a soft bottom or contamination. There is also a high probability of disturbing the test area while placing the sensors. This paper describes a NASA-fu...

Carbon Emissions from Biomass Burning

Biomass burning aerosol climate impacts

Impacts of absorbing biomass burning aerosol on the climate of southern Africa: a Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory GCM sensitivity study C. A. Randles and V. Ramaswamy Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey, USA now at: Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center, Universi...