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Conversations After the Fires: Air Quality and Health

Researchers from the LA Fire HEALTH Study Consortium spoke today at a webinar hosted by the CalTech Science Exchange as part of their Conversations After the Fires: Air Quality and Health series.  Lea Hildenbrandt Ruiz, associate professor of chemical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, and Rima Habre, associate professor of population and public health sciences and spatial sciences at USC, discussed their ongoing research to monitor and publicize data about air pollution post-fires.

Dr. Lea Hildebrant Ruiz shares updates about the air quality monitoring van that her team has used to measure PM and VOC pollution in the vicinity of the burn areas.

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