1/ I always go in for my asymptomatic PCR testing @ucdavis on Sunday mornings & take the time to walk around campus before & after. It is such a gift to work at a great university w/ such a wonderful campus. A few images taken on those walks today & previously .....
2/ Our beautiful arboretum - Such a nice play to walk away from the office to clear one's mind and get some exercise.
3/ Lots of non-human animals all around campus.
4/ The @UCDavisCOE Coffee Center. First of a kind for fundamental research on coffee.
5/ As a dog lover, this one always pulls at my heart strings ...
Faithful Partner statue in the middle of the #1 ranked School of Veterinary Medicine in the world.
6/ Sciences Lab Building
7/ Just a nice place along a walkway behind the athletic complex.
8/ A student dining commons w/ a lot of outdoor seating around 2nd floor and ground level.
9/ One of several student dorm complexes on campus (w/ windows that open). The interior courtyards of this complex are beautiful - like a place I might want to retire someday!
10/ Kemper Hall - One of three major engineering buildings and home to the @UCDavisCOE dean's office (my home away from home).
11/ The future Diane Bryant Engineering Student Design Center - an expansion from current 9,000 to 23,000 sq ft and place where students & student teams can design, build prototypes, engage in start-up companies and more. Excited about grand opening in 9 mos or so.
12/ A couple of evening photos:
Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts.
13/ Eggheads
It's been a very difficult two years. Let's all try to get along.
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The "Sources" chapter of @theNASEM
report on "Health Risks of Indoor Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter & Practical Mitigation Solutions" is approx 60 pages and full of source-specific details. Check out the report here: (some highlights in thread)
Cooking is a very large source, whether heating w/ natural gas, propane, electric. Emissions specific to natural gas for cooking & other heating processes considered in (2)
The "Sources" chapter of @theNASEM report on "Health Risks of Indoor Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter & Practical Mitigation Solutions" is approx 60 pages and full of source-specific details. Check out the report here: 👇 (some highlights in thread)
Cooking is a very large source, whether heating w/ natural gas, propane, electric .. Emissions specific to natural gas for cooking & other heating processes considered in (2)
(1) Americans spend the vast majority of their time indoors. Prior to the pandemic, on average Americans lived to be 79 yo (now lower) & spend almost 70 of those years indoors, 54 years insides residences.
(2) Most fine particulate matter (particles with diameters of 2.5 microns or less) are inhaled indoors. This is true for fine particles of both indoor as well as outdoor origin. (more on sources of fine PM in a future tweet).
(3) There is ample evidence that exposure to fine particulate matter causes a range of adverse health effects (will summarize in a future tweet).
1/ This CR Box (the one on the right!) has now totaled operational time equivalent to an entire in-classroom school year. Both it and its cohort of three other CR Boxes continue to perform with a high level of effectiveness across a wide range of particle sizes.
2/ Four CR Boxes were placed in different indoor settings on the UC Davis campus, from a relatively clean 4-person office suite w/ VCT flooring to a particle-challenged soils lab.
3/ Each CR Box consists of four 20" x 20" x 2" MERV-13 filters (3 boxes w/ filters from the same manufacturer and the 4th from a different manufacturer). A 20" x 20" box fan was used to draw air through each CR Box.