Air Quality

SERDP and ESTCP investments are developing and demonstrating technologies and methods to characterize and monitor DoD’s fugitive emissions, predict their dispersion and contributions to local and regional air quality, and assess and reduce their environmental impacts.

Completed Projects List
Project Title Completed

Characterization of Emissions and Air Quality Modeling for Predicting the Impacts of Prescribed Burns at DoD Lands

Project Information
Project ID: RC-1647
Principal Investigator: Dr. Mehmet Talat Odman, Georgia Institute of Technology
SERDP Oct 2012

Fugitive Dust Emissions: Development of a Real-Time Monitor

Project Information
Project ID: RC-1728
Principal Investigator: Dr. Thomas Holsen, Clarkson University
SERDP Oct 2011

Development of Emission Factors for Dust Generated by Unique Military Activities

Project Information
Project ID: RC-1400
Principal Investigator: Dr. Byung Kim, U.S. Army ERDC-CERL
SERDP Sep 2010

Particulate Matter Emissions Factors for Dust from Unique Military Activities

Project Information
Project ID: RC-1399
Principal Investigator: Dr. John Gillies, Desert Research Institute
SERDP Mar 2010

Optical Remote Sensing Method to Determine Strength of Nonpoint Sources

Project Information
Project ID: RC-200214
Principal Investigator: Dr. Patrick Sullivan, U.S. Air Force
ESTCP Sep 2008

Development of a GIS-Based Complex Terrain Model for Atmospheric Dust Dispersion

Project Information
Project ID: RC-1195
Principal Investigator: Dr. K. Jerry Allwine, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
SERDP May 2007

Characterization of PM2.5 Dust Emissions From Training/Testing Range Operations

Project Information
Project ID: RC-1190
Principal Investigator: Dr. John Veranth, University of Utah
SERDP Apr 2007

Development and Validation of a Predictive Model to Assess the Impact of Coastal Operations on Urban Scale Air Quality

Project Information
Project ID: RC-1253
Principal Investigator: Dr. Alan Gertler, Desert Research Institute
SERDP Sep 2006

Characterizing and Quantifying Local and Regional Particulate Matter Emissions from DoD Installations

Project Information
Project ID: RC-1191
Principal Investigator: Dr. John Gillies, Desert Research Institute
SERDP Dec 2004

Adaptive Grid Modeling and Direct Sensitivity Analysis for Predicting the Air Quality Impacts of DoD Activities

Project Information
Project ID: RC-1249
Principal Investigator: Dr. Mehmet Talat Odman, Georgia Institute of Technology
SERDP Feb 2004

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FY 2013 New Start Project Selections

FY 2013 New Start Project Selections for the Environmental Solicitation

Workshop Report:
Research Needs for Assessment and Management of Non-Point Air Emissions from DoD Activities (2008)
 

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