Enhanced assessment of exposure to traffic and woodsmoke and incorporation of meteorology

Principal Investigator: Michael Buzzelli

Objectives
The objective of this project is to build on, and extend, the consolidate geodatabase described in Project 3 with enhanced measurements and analysis focused on local traffic, woodsmoke and meteorology. These enhancements will be developed with existing data and validated with special measurements campaigns. This will be done for the GVRD region in 2002, which would then serve as prototype for data collection, exposure assessment and health studies across the entire Georgia Basin / Puget Sound Airshed in future research.

Project Summary
This project will enhance and extend the geographical database created in BAQS by incorporating detailed information regarding traffic pollution sources and woodburning within the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD). Spatial monitoring studies of traffic related air pollution and woodmoke will be conducted and linked to geographical data collected form existing databases and new data collected specifically for this project. In addition, we will apply a mesoscale meteorological model to the GVRD including wind speed and direction and near-surface temperature. This model will be integrated within a Geographic Information System to couple meteorological dispersion to the source proximity variables.

For more information please see the links below or view this study featured in the University of British Columbia Geography Website HERE.

Links

2004-2005 Report
Woodsmoke Validation Report: January 2005