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SUMMARY:Special EESS talk on "Assessing PM2.5 Air Pollution’s Adverse He
 alth Effects with Particle Oxidative Potential: Is Oxidative Potential Use
 ful?"
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Rodney Weber\, School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences\, 
 Georgia Institute of Technology\, Atlanta\, GA\, USA\nAbstract: \nInhalati
 on of fine aerosol particles\, known as PM2.5\, leads to adverse health ou
 tcomes. Regulations to protect health are based on PM2.5 mass concentratio
 n. In the ambient atmosphere PM2.5 is composed of a myriad of chemical spe
 cies due to emissions from many sources and subsequent atmospheric process
 ing that further alters particle composition. It is known that this result
 s in a wide range in toxicities for individual chemical species within PM2
 .5\, suggesting that PM2.5 mass concentration may not be the optimal metri
 c to assess potential adverse effects or to design strategies to reduce he
 alth impacts on exposed populations.  Measures of PM2.5 oxidative potenti
 al (OP) have been proposed as a more physiologically relevant parameter to
  assess particle adverse health effects. In the past 10 years or so many O
 P assays have been developed and characterized their responses to particle
  chemical species. In this talk I will summarize some of the studies I hav
 e been involved in that investigated links to adverse health and associati
 ons to OP vs PM2.5 mass\, and discuss some results from measurements in Fa
 irbanks\, Alaska\, that shows the utility of OP for assessing outdoor and 
 indoor air quality.\n\nBiography:\nRodney Weber is a Professor of Atmosphe
 ric Chemistry at School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Ins
 titute of Technology in Atlanta\, GA\, USA. Professor Weber’s research b
 roadly encompasses the formation\, evolution and radiative and health impa
 cts of atmospheric aerosols through the combination of field and laborator
 y observations and theory\, often with instrumentation and techniques that
  is developed in his group. Throughout his career\, Professor Weber has ma
 de seminal contributions on the topics of New Particle Formation\, Seconda
 ry Organic Aerosol Formation\, Aerosol and Human Health Effects\, Fine Par
 ticle Acidity and Aerosol Brown Carbon. He is the inventor of the Particle
 -Into-Liquid Sampler (PILS) and is a Highly Cited Researcher in the field 
 of Geosciences\, authoring/co-authoring close to 300 refereed journal publ
 ications that are cited more than 42000 times and with an h-index of 117 (
 Google Scholar). His distinctions include the Kenneth T. Whitby Award from
  the American Association for Aerosol Research\, the Ascent Award from the
  Atmospheric Sciences Section of the American Geophysical Union\, and a Ge
 orgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences Faculty Mentor Award.\n
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