Air Monitoring Equipment for Field & Chamber Studies

Measurement Supported:

• TEI Continuous Particle Sulfate Monitor

• Sunset Labs Continuous OCEC Particle Monitor

• Met One Instruments BAM (1 each for PM10, PM2.5)

• R & P Tapered Element Oscillating Microbalance (2)

• Magee Scientific Aethalometer (6 of these)

• TSI Model 3320 Aerosol Particle Sizer (APS)

• TSI NRC Scanning Mobility Particle Sampler (SMPS)

• TSI Model 8520 DustTrak & SidePak monitors

• TSIMicro-orifice Cascade Impactor, Fluidized Bed Aerosol Generator

• Multiple CO, CO2, O3, SO2 and NOx analyzers

• (HSPH-Custom built) High Volume Low Cutpoint Impactor (HVLI)

• (HSPH-Custom built) Honeycomb Denuder Systems and Ambient Fine Particle Concentrators

• Portable Condensation Nuclei Counters

• TEI 146C gas dilution calibrator

• Generation of test atmospheres where particle mass is concentrated up to 50 times

• Continuous monitoring of particle number counts by size classes

• Continuous monitoring of particle mass, black carbon, SO₂, NO₂, O₃, and CO

• Integrated sampling for particles, VOCs, semi-VOCs and gases.

• Collection of particle mass for toxicity, biological and genetic testing

Physiologic Equipment for Field & Chamber Studies

Measurements Supported:

• Vivometrics LifeShirt Systems (8)

• BUXO Respiratory Pattern Measurement System

• PULSE computer-based cognitive screening test
• Mini-laptop based cognitive function screening tool

Continuous monitoring of pulmonary function, electro-cardio function, blood oxygen saturations on ambulatory subjects

Continuous monitoring of respiratory function of test animals

Cognitive/Physiological monitoring