Grantee Research Project Results

Methods Development Project for a Study of Personal Exposures to Toxic Air Pollutants

EPA Grant Number: R824834C005
Subproject: this is subproject number 005 , established and managed by the Center Director under grant R824834
(EPA does not fund or establish subprojects; EPA awards and manages the overall grant for this center).
Center: Mickey Leland National Urban Air Toxics Research Center (NUATRC)
Center Director: Beskid, Craig
Title: Methods Development Project for a Study of Personal Exposures to Toxic Air Pollutants
Investigators: Morandi, Maria T. , Stock, Tom
Institution: The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
EPA Project Officer: Chung, Serena
Project Period: October 15, 1994 through April 15, 1997
RFA: Mickey Leland National Urban Air Toxics Research Center (NUATRC) (1997) RFA Text |  Recipients Lists
Research Category: Congressionally Mandated Center , Urban Air Toxics , Targeted Research

Objective:

The project's two main objectives are to: (1) demonstrate the feasibility of using personal dosimeters to test air quality, and modified dosimeters to test low concentrations of pollutants, and (2) develop and evaluate methods appropriate for a community study of personal exposures to toxic air pollutants.

Approach:

This study will assess the performance of candidate passive air samplers as personal indoor and outdoor monitors for selected air toxics. Target air toxics include: formaldehyde, other low molecular weight aldehydes, and ten additional volatile organic compounds (VOCs). We will then evaluate and select residential air exchange rate measurement protocols. Finally, we will select two geographic areas to evaluate the use of the passive dosimeters as personal monitors.

Expected Results:

This study is designed to evaluate the usefulness of passive dosimeters for monitoring personal exposures to a group of air toxics. If the evaluation proves the applicability of passive monitors for community exposure monitoring, the effects on personal and population exposures from living in proximity to area and point sources of air toxics can be assessed.

Publications and Presentations:

Publications have been submitted on this subproject: View all 7 publications for this subproject | View all 144 publications for this center

Journal Articles:

Journal Articles have been submitted on this subproject: View all 2 journal articles for this subproject | View all 53 journal articles for this center

Supplemental Keywords:

air pollution, volatile organic compounds, VOCs, exposure, monitoring, urban, Houston, Texas, TX., RFA, Health, PHYSICAL ASPECTS, Scientific Discipline, Air, POLLUTANTS/TOXICS, Air Pollution, particulate matter, air toxics, Health Risk Assessment, Air Pollution Effects, Chemicals, Risk Assessments, Physical Processes, Biochemistry, Environmental Monitoring, health effects, urban air quality, urban air, air pollutants, human health effects, exposure, air sampling, human exposure, lung inflamation, particulate exposure, urban air pollution, sensitive subgroups, PM, human health, Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), airborne urban contaminants, biomarker, human health risk, metals

Progress and Final Reports:

1995

1996

Final Report

Main Center Abstract and Reports:

R824834    Mickey Leland National Urban Air Toxics Research Center (NUATRC)

Subprojects under this Center: (EPA does not fund or establish subprojects; EPA awards and manages the overall grant for this center).
R824834C001 Air Toxics Exposures Among Teenagers in New York City and Los Angeles - A Columbia-Harvard Study (TEACH)
R824834C002 Cardiopulmonary Response to Particulate Exposure
R824834C003 VOC Exposure in an Industry Impacted Community
R824834C004 A Study of Personal Exposure to Air Toxics Among a Subset of the Residential U.S. Population (VOC Project)
R824834C005 Methods Development Project for a Study of Personal Exposures to Toxic Air Pollutants
R824834C006 Relationship Between Indoor, Outdoor and Personal Air (RIOPA)
R824834C007 Development of the "Leland Legacy" Air Sampling Pump
R824834C008 Source Apportionment of Indoor Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Urban Residences
R824834C009 Development of a Personal Cascade Impactor Sampler (PCIS)
R824834C010 Testing the Metals Hypothesis in Spokane
R828678C001 Air Toxics Exposures Among Teenagers in New York City and Los Angeles—A Columbia-Harvard Study (TEACH)
R828678C002 Cardiopulmonary Effects of Metal-Containing Particulate Exposure
R828678C003 VOC Exposure in an Industry Impacted Community
R828678C004 A Study of Personal Exposure to Air Toxics Among a Subset of the Residential U.S. Population (VOC Project)
R828678C005 Oxygenated Urban Air Toxics and Asthma Variability in Middle School Children: A Panel Study (ATAC–Air Toxics and Asthma in Children)
R828678C006 Relationship between Indoor, Outdoor and Personal Air (RIOPA). Part II: Analyses of Concentrations of Particulate Matter Species
R828678C007 Development of the “Leland Legacy” Air Sampling Pump
R828678C008 Source Apportionment of Indoor PAHs in Urban Residences 98-03B
R828678C009 Development of a Personal Cascade Impactor Sampler (PCIS)
R828678C010 Testing the Metals Hypothesis in Spokane
R828678C011 A Pilot Geospatial Analysis of Exposure to Air Pollutants (with Special Attention to Air Toxics) and Hospital Admissions in Harris County, Texas
R828678C012 Impact of Exposure to Urban Air Toxics on Asthma Utilization for the Pediatric Medicaid Population in Dearborn, Michigan
R828678C013 Field Validation of the Sioutas Sampler and Leland Legacy Pump – Joint Project with EPA’s Environmental Technology Validation Program (ETV)
R828678C014 Performance Evaluation of the 3M Charcoal Vapor Monitor for Monitor Low Ambient Concentrations of VOCs
R828678C015 RIOPA Database Development
R828678C016 Contributions of Outdoor PM Sources to Indoor and Personal Exposures: Analysis of PM Species Concentrations” Focused on the PM Speciation and Apportioning of Sources
R828678C017 The Short and Long-Term Respiratory Effects of Exposure to PAHs from Traffic in a Cohort of Asthmatic Children