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Where are the particles over the oceans from?

Jian Wang to study formation of particles around marine boundary layer clouds.

06.01.2022

Martin ranks No. 23 worldwide among environmental scientists

Research.com ranks Randall Martin No. 12 in U.S., 23 in world.

05.06.2022

Martin wins NASA grant for satellite-derived air quality research

Findings could help with future air quality management.

01.27.2022

April 2019 and 2020-2019 difference of inferred ground level NO2 mixing ratio near Atlanta. The green circle represents downtown Atlanta, the red diamonds represent coal-burning power plants with capacities > 2000 MW. The blue x represents Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. The black lines indicate major highways. (Courtesy: Martin Lab)

Lockdown drove pollution changes between – even within – cities

New method allows researchers to measure levels of NO2 on a finer scale, revealing disparities in exposure during COVID.

01.19.2022

Energy facility awards funding to Chakrabarty

Chakrabarty's project is one of 35 two-year projects funded by a U.S. Department of Energy facility sponsored by the Biological and Environmental Research program.

12.21.2021

In 2020, about 90% of all corn, cotton and soybeans planted in the United States were genetically modified to tolerate one or more herbicides, such as glyphosate, dicamba or 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D). (iStock photo)

Mitigating environmental impact of herbicides

Kimberly Parker, Brent Williams, graduate student Stephen Sharkey evaluate herbicide drift.

12.15.2021

Something's Up

Rajan Chakrabarty and Randall Martin research fine particulate matter, which is the leading cause of environment-related diseases around the world.

12.07.2021

(From left) Randall Martin, Rohit Pappu, Lan Yang

McKelvey Engineering has three of world’s most ‘highly cited researchers’

Randall Martin, Rohit Pappu and Lan Yang are recognized for their work by the Institute for Scientific Information.

11.16.2021

St. Louis environmentalists to check for air pollution in communities of color

Jay Turner and his lab will collect and analyze samples of volatile organic compounds from the absorbed pollution in some St. Louis neighborhoods.

10.28.2021

Research from the McKelvey School of Engineering shows exposure to pollution and population density predict where COVID-19 spread the fastest — in neighborhoods with more minority residents. (Image: Shutterstock)

Environmental injustice, population density and the spread of COVID-19 in minority communities

Computer modeling shows just two factors can predict how quickly COVID-19 spread.

10.19.2021

Washington University in St. Louis team licenses SARS-CoV-2 detection technology to Y2X Life Sciences

Company to develop cutting-edge biosensor technologies to monitor air quality and infectious disease presence in individuals and large gathering places.

09.14.2021

The decrease in PM2.5 concentrations over the North China Plain are most closely reproduced by a combination of a reduction in transportation emissions and meteorology (R) while natural variability dominated elsewhere (L). (Courtesy: NASA Earth Observatory)

Pandemic air quality affected by weather, not just lockdowns

Research shows meteorology plays an outsized role over the short-term.

06.23.2021