The proposed outreach will entail the development of a transfer project in Sri Lanka which will allow site-specific or precision management to be applied in a LDC.In addition, researchers will hold conferences and workshops, distribute informational brochures, and write papers for journals and magazines. Work so far has focused on identifying and monitoring atmospheric trace gases. Additional efforts, especially during this next year, will improve methods and mechanics of tracing these gases, making techniques more sensitive and accurate for environmental monitoring. Researchers have selected a list of target compounds to study which are recognized as hazardous air pollutants but have been neglected in past monitoring endeavors. Efforts in the second year will entail moving beyond the research group and practically applying methods.
Water is a limited and precious resource.
While the topic of water management is well researched, information rarely makes it to the actual water managers and users that can and need to make a difference. Therefore, the principle investigators of this project propose an AV-production as a method of public education and outreach. The information to be publicized stems from AGS projects on comparative watershedanalysis and other water-related studies. The cokemaking sector has proven to be the area with the highest energy use and is thus the focus of this proposal. For the last two years, two AGS projects in China have entailed surveying cokemaking plants, local officials and living conditions of plant workers.