"It's an absolute honor anytime you get to work with Jerry Schnoor," Ney said.
As a consultant for Sebesta-Blomberg, a sustainable-technology company, Ney works with industrial and major institutions such as universities to manage and reduce carbon emissions.
Trailed by camera crews, University of Iowa adjunct professor Umran Dogan scoured five homes in Houma, Louisiana this June in search of one thing: asbestos, the fibrous mineral known to cause mesothelioma.
It didn’t take long.
For 25 years, former UI professor Konstantine Georgakakos has had flash floods on the mind. In May 2008, Georgakakos will continue his quest to perfect a world-wide flash flood warning system, traveling with two colleagues from the Hydrologic Research Center (HRC) in San Diego to Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico to train workers for a proposed project he first began developing in the early ‘80s as a graduate student. The Center will also host 10-15 Chinese engineers this January 2008 for a three-week discussion on applying the warning system to China.
How do manmade pollution and mineral dust from Asian deserts travel across the Pacific? How do these dust and pollution plumes affect clouds, precipitation and, ultimately, our climate?
How do manmade pollution and mineral dust from Asian deserts travel across the Pacific? How do these dust and pollution plumes affect clouds, precipitation and, ultimately, our climate?
As a rule, riding on the back of a large
motorized vehicle provides little benefit
to public health. But if the “passenger”
affixed to the rear of the automobile is a
sampler that measures air contaminants, it’s likely
an exception to the rule.
A University of Iowa College
University of Iowa engineering student Holly Moriarty spent the spring semester of her sophomore year wiping counters and sorting silverware at the Hillcrest Market Place. As closing time approached during each shift, she'd watch as massive pans of uneaten food went down the disposal or into the dumpster.
DEL MAR – Hurricane Felix's march through Central America this week could help a local nonprofit corporation perfect a flash-flood warning system that may eventually span the globe.
Jerry Schnoor (photo, left), co-director of the University of Iowa College of Engineering's Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, has been appointed chair of the new 27-member state of Iowa Climate Change Advisory Council by Gov. Chet Culver.
A new state panel is to come up with proposals for cutting Iowa's greenhouse gas emissions in half by the year 2050. Jerry Schnoor of the University of Iowa's Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research is the group's chairman, and he calls that an "ambitious" goal.
