MidAtlantic Meteorology, Air Quality and Health: Communities, Challenges and Opportunities

The MidAtlantic region includes diverse urban and rural populations, challenging air quality, complex boundary layer meteorology and complex political forces. The area is also increasingly rich in atmospheric observations and models capable of revealing the complex interactions between air quality and meteorology. New partnerships are emerging among regional universities and federal research laboratories. Finally, our institutions, both university and federal, are increasingly committed to collaboration among health and environmental scientists, to increasing the level of community engagement in our research endeavors, and to a strong focus on environmental justice. New federal investments in clean energy will impact community level pollutants, providing a time-sensitive opportunity to understand the health benefits of these investments.These conditions make the time ripe to explore new regional research projects that can be initiated by our proposal team.