Research Centers
Mickey Leland National Urban Air Toxics Research Center (NUATRC)
Mickey Leland National Urban Air Toxics Research Center
NUATRC's mission is to develop an environmental health research program on the public health risks posed by air toxics in urban atmospheres. The center's research program is focused on:
- Personal exposure determinations (measurements of actual exposures to air
toxics by people living in urban environments).
- Use of biomarkers (health effect assessment in susceptible populations).
- Health effects research (clinical, toxicological and epidemiological
studies). Initial research projects involved an assessment of research gaps
related to the chemical and physical processes of asthma and the effect of air
toxics on same.
- Improved specificity and sensitivity of biomarkers; and the use of passive monitors for short term personal exposures to selected air toxics.
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Main Center Abstract:
Mickey Leland National Urban Air Toxics Research Center (NUATRC)
Center Research Projects:
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)
- Original Abstract
- 2001 Progress Report
- 2002 Progress Report
- 2003 Progress Report
- 2004 Progress Report
- 2005 Progress Report
- 2006 Progress Report
- 2007 Progress Report
R828678C002 - Cardiopulmonary Effects of Metal-Containing Particulate Exposure
- Original Abstract
- 2001 Progress Report
- 2002 Progress Report
- 2003 Progress Report
- 2004 Progress Report
- 2005 Progress Report
- 2006 Progress Report
R828678C003 - VOC Exposure in an Industry Impacted Community
- Original Abstract
- 2001 Progress Report
- 2002 Progress Report
- 2003 Progress Report
- 2004 Progress Report
- Final Report
R828678C004 - A Study of Personal Exposure to Air Toxics Among a Subset of the Residential U.S. Population (VOC Project)
- Original Abstract
- 2001 Progress Report
- 2002 Progress Report
- 2003 Progress Report
- 2004 Progress Report
- 2005 Progress Report
R828678C005 - Oxygenated Urban Air Toxics and Asthma Variability in Middle School Children: A Panel Study (ATAC–Air Toxics and Asthma in Children)
- Original Abstract
- 2001 Progress Report
- 2002 Progress Report
- 2003 Progress Report
- 2006 Progress Report
- 2007 Progress Report
R828678C006 - Relationship between Indoor, Outdoor and Personal Air (RIOPA). Part II: Analyses of Concentrations of Particulate Matter Species
- Original Abstract
- 2001 Progress Report
- 2002 Progress Report
- 2003 Progress Report
- 2004 Progress Report
- 2005 Progress Report
- 2006 Progress Report
- 2007 Progress Report
R828678C007 - Development of the “Leland Legacy” Air Sampling Pump
- Original Abstract
- 2001 Progress Report
- 2002 Progress Report
- 2003 Progress Report
- 2004 Progress Report
- Final Report
R828678C008 - Source Apportionment of Indoor PAHs in Urban Residences 98-03B
- Original Abstract
- 2001 Progress Report
- 2002 Progress Report
- 2003 Progress Report
- 2004 Progress Report
- Final Report
R828678C009 - Development of a Personal Cascade Impactor Sampler (PCIS)
R828678C010 - Testing the Metals Hypothesis in Spokane
- Original Abstract
- 2001 Progress Report
- 2002 Progress Report
- 2003 Progress Report
- 2004 Progress Report
- 2005 Progress Report
- 2006 Progress Report
- 2007 Progress Report
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