Local News in Brief : Fullerton : Professor Gets $773,000 for Air Pollution Studies
Using two grants totaling $773,000, a chemistry professor at Cal State Fullerton will continue her research into air pollution, the university has announced.
Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts will expand her study of how salty sea air may contribute to air pollution, supported by a $275,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant is the second award Finlayson-Pitts has received from the National Science Foundation since she began her pollution study in 1984.
The researcher also received a $498,000 grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for research on inhaled pollutants.
In the National Science Foundation-funded study, Finlayson-Pitts is examining whether salt in the sea air may react with nitrogen dioxide, an air pollutant, to form the toxic gas nitrosyl chloride. The second study involves research to determine whether inhaled air pollutants, particularly ozone and nitrogen dioxide, react with chemicals that line the surface of the lung.
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