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Air, life quality lower than previously thought ■ Student presents findings indicating underestimation of pollutants in urban areas Amber Jaura The Battalion Graduate student Changhyoun Park’s research “Why does anthropogenic isoprene need to be included in EPA National Emission Inventory?” analyzed a long-term data set of Houston air quality. He was honored as a Session Winner for his efforts in the College of Geosciences division in Student Research Week 2010 at Texas A&M. Park, a doctoral student graduating in May, presented his research findings on manmade and tree-canopy-related isoprene emission measurements taken from a tower near downtown Houston and measuring the eddy flux of volatile organic compounds. Over time, Park said the measurements he collected revealed cars may be a much larger source of this naturally occurring chemical than previously thought. “In the air quality study area, the establishment of exact emission inventories is important for the decision making on proper air quality controls
or regulations, considering the impact on public health especially in a huge metropolitan area,” Park said. “We wanted to know how close the EPA’s emission inventory model is to real-world emissions, because the model data enter into predictions of past, present and future air quality.” Park said his goal was to calculate the accuracy of emission inventories by comparing his data with the EPA emission inventory numbers. He found that because the EPA model underestimates the amount of certain pollutants emitted into the atmosphere by as much as three to five times and doesn’t include anthropogenic isoprene, the emission inventory might need adjusting. He and his adviser Gunner Schade are among the first researchers to use eddy flux measurements to record the surface-atmosphere exchange of gases in an urban environment. Karen Kriedel, communications coordinator for the College of Geosciences, said Park’s research helps quantify air pollution and air quality.
“Students in the College of Geosciences are able to participate in many exciting research projects that contribute to our understanding of the world around us,” Kriedel said. “We are proud of Park, and I have no doubt that when he graduates from Texas A&M, he will have a brilliant career and will continue to make advances in his field.” Park said he intends to further his research as he seeks improvement in the overall quality of life for people in urban areas. “Our research has still a lot of uncertainties due to the physically and chemically complicated mixed urban area,” Park said. “For a more detailed study, we are about to deploy improved equipments and other coworkers in our and other departments.” Sarah Jaks, director of Student Research Week and graduate student in student affairs administration, said the increased student participation in the event each year brings breakthroughs in research. “We had students representing every college on campus, which allowed for a variety of research projects from both graduate and undergraduate students. This year we gave out 344 awards.”
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EL CAJON, Calif. — An 11-year-old girl told police a man followed her home from school the day before registered sex offender John Albert Gardner III raped and murdered a 17-year-old girl in a nearby park, according to search warrants unsealed Monday. The documents also indicated that two women joggers encountered Gardner on the afternoon of Feb. 25, the day he attacked and killed Chelsea King when she went for a run in the park. One woman said she was convinced a man she briefly spoke with about coyotes and snakes was Gardner. Investigators linked Gardner to King’s murder through semen found on her underwear, according to the search warrants unsealed in response to a request by The Associated Press and other news organizations. King’s body was discovered in a shallow lakeside grave five days after she vanished. The warrants said authorities seized 11 shovels, three pickaxes and other digging tools from Gardner’s home in Lake Elsinore along with a “Hard Rock Cafe Baghdad” T-shirt and other clothing. They also found a tool case with black electrical and duct tape in a storage unit in suburban Escondido; black duct tape and a fast-food receipt from Feb. 25 in his girlfriend’s car; and several “Hard Rock Cafe” shirts and a shovel at his mother’s home in San Diego. Gardner, 31, pleaded guilty April 16 to raping and murdering King and 14-year-old Amber Dubois, who was abducted while walking to school in Escondido in February 2009. Gardner had served five years of a six-year prison sentence for molesting a 13-year-old San Diego neighbor in 2000. The search warrants said the 11-year-old girl told San Diego police on Feb. 24 that a man in a black car slowly drove by and parked as she walked home alone from school in the Rancho Bernardo area. The driver made no effort to speak with her. A woman then pulled up beside the girl, told
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her the man looked suspicious, and offered to follow her two blocks to her house. The man then made a U-turn and drove away. The girl told a family member the man had stared at her before pulling forward, and that she later recognized Gardner from a photo published after his arrest in the death of King. Investigators then asked her to identify the man from among six photos. She picked two of the pictures, and one was Gardner, according to the documents. One of the women joggers told investigators she spoke with a man in a “Hard Rock Cafe” Tshirt who was drinking beer and smoking a cigarette when she went for an afternoon run on the day King was attacked. After Gardner’s arrest, she told authorities she was positive he was the man she saw along the running trail. “The person told her to watch out for the snake and she noticed there was a rattlesnake,” the affidavit reads. Another runner, Jacquelyn Maxton, also told authorities she saw Gardner that afternoon in a “Hard Rock Cafe Baghdad” T-shirt. “She was 100 percent positive the person she saw on the trail was the person she saw on television because his haircut and eyes looked exactly the same,” the affidavit reads. The affidavits also describe a Dec. 27 attack on another jogger in the area. Gardner pleaded guilty to attempted rape in that case. The jogger, Candice Moncayo, reported saying good morning to a man who returned the greeting then tackled her and began to climb on top of her, pinning her shoulders to the ground. Moncayo screamed for help, believing she was going to be raped. The assailant told her to shut up and she responded, “You’re going to have to kill me,” according to the documents. “That can be arranged,” her assailant said. Associated Press
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