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Wood pellets in a circle of hands.

Study: Burning wood pellets for energy endangers local communities’ health (Mongabay | Jan. 18, 2024)

Saravanan Arunachalam, co-author and deputy direct of the Institute for the Environment at the University of N

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EM Magazine Cover

CMAS Center, partners featured in special issue of EM Magazine

Several researchers from the UNC Institute for the Environment contributed to the special issue.

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22nd Annual CMAS conference

22nd annual CMAS Conference celebrated milestones and giants of the field

The event featured a celebration of CMAQ and the lives of two giants of the CMAS community.

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Wood chips and smoke stacks.

Report: Biomass outpaces emissions of other fossil fuels (Public News Service | Dec. 18, 2023)

Sarav Arunachalam, professor and deputy director of the Institute for the Environment at the University of Nor

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Trees

New Peer-Reviewed Research Finds Bioenergy Causes Disproportionate Share of Air Pollution (The National Wildlife Federation | Dec. 8, 2023)

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the National Wildlife Federation found that

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fire

Edneyville wildfire now 434 acres, 30% contained, UNC expert gives advice on air quality (BlueRidgeNow | Oct. 9, 2023)

Deputy Director and Research Professor Sarav Arunachalam talks to BlueRidgeNow about air quality during a wild

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ITM scientists at the Friday Conference Center

UNC hosts ITM, a prominent international air quality modeling forum to advance global air quality

The 39th annual International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and its Applications (ITM) hosted b

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Huy Tran

Huy Tran

Huy Tran is an atmospheric scientist specializing in air quality research and modeling. His past research invo

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Manish Soni

Manish Soni

Manish Soni is a post-doctoral research associate at the UNC Institute for the Environment’s Center for Enviro

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Catherine Seppanen

Education M.S. Bio-medical Engineering, Duke University, 2000 B.S. Engineering, Tulane University, 1999

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