{"id":289,"date":"2008-04-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-124-phd-candidate\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:29:52","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:29:52","slug":"innovation-anthology-124-phd-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2008\/04\/10\/innovation-anthology-124-phd-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #124: PhD Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 124.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nA whiff of salty sea air might sooth the soul, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not so great for air quality.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTurns out <b>sunshine and sea salt  <\/b>make air pollution worse around coastal shipping centres.   And emissions from marine vessels may be polluting the earth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s atmosphere to a greater extent than previously thought.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the finding of a team of researchers with the <b>National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.  <\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOne member of that team is <b>Dr. Hans Osthoff, <\/b>a new recruit to the Chemistry Department at the<b> University of Calgary.<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDr. Osthoff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s team monitored air quality along the coast of the eastern United States between Charleston, South Carolina and Houston, Texas.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs reported in the journal <em>Nature Geoscience,<\/em> the scientists recorded unusually high levels of <b>nitryl chloride. <\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThey discovered this compound is produced at night by a reaction between the nitrogen oxide N205, which is found in polluted air, and the chloride from sea salt.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThen in the presence of sunlight, this compound accelerates the production of ground level ozone and other pollutants.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDr. Osthoff would now like to research whether this chemistry affects air quality in other coastal regions like Vancouver and the Arctic.\n <\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nFOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY,<br \/>\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122M CHERYL CROUCHER <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3>Simon Bockstette, <\/h3>\n<h4>Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"\"><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02008-04-10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A whiff of salty sea air might sooth the soul, but it&rsquo;s not so great for air quality.<br \/>\nTurns out sunshine and sea salt   make air pollution worse around coastal shipping centres.   And emissions from marine vessels may be polluting the earth&rsquo;s atmosphere to a greater extent than previously thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-marine","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4441,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/4441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}