GMD News Items
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Utah’s winter air quality mystery. NOAA study targets high ozone pollution events in western oil and gas fields
7th Feb, 2012
NOAA Scientists and colleagues from the Utah Air Quality Division, the NOAA Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado , and several other institutions launched the Winter Ozone Study in the Uintah Basin. The team is studying the basin with chemistry instruments for six weeks, to understand where the ingredients of ground-level ozone are coming from, and how wintertime temperature inversions and snow on the ground contribute to record-breaking ozone levels. -
2011 Dr. Daniel L. Albritton Outstanding Science Communicator Award to Russ Schnell
19th Jan, 2012
Russ Schnell, Deputy Director of the Global Monitoring Division of NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) is the 2011 recipient of the Dr. Daniel L. Albritton Outstanding Science Communicator Award. The NOAA Research award recognizes outstanding achievement in communicating the meaning and value of NOAA-related science and research to non-scientific audiences.