Yorkshire Philosophical Society

In April 2014 an air quality episode started a media frenzy with headlines such as ‘London’s invisible killer’ and ‘Return of the Killer Smog’ filling the newspapers and grabbing our attention. This episode was unusual because the pollution being reported on could be seen both in the air and on people’s cars. Modern air pollution is generally invisible so without instrumentation to measure what is in the air it is impossible to see how bad the pollution is and to understand the causes; that’s where the work of atmospheric chemists like those working in the Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories at the University of York becomes really important. Find out about where air pollution comes from, why it is interesting to scientists and why, whether you are a scientist or not, you should be interested too!

 Presentation by Dr Sarah Moller, University of York

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