2024 KTU Session 4

April 6, 2024

Take a deep breath

An Interactive Session led by Dr. Linsey Marr

Charles P. Lunsford Professor and University Distinguished Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech

Dr. Marr is a University Distinguished Professor and the Charles P. Lunsford Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. She teaches Air Resources Engineering for seniors and graduate students. Her research team uses interdisciplinary approaches to study pollutants in indoor and outdoor air. She received a B.S. in Engineering Science from Harvard and a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from UC Berkeley and completed her post-doctoral training in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT.

Did you know that kids breathe in and out 30 pounds of air per day? What’s in the air we breathe, and how can it affect our health? We will learn about the gases and particles in the air we breathe, those that are essential to life and those that can be harmful. These include oxygen, wildfire smoke, viruses, and more. What are they? Where do they come from? How do they affect our health? If someone handed you a glass of dirty water, you know that you should purify it before drinking it. What can we do to ensure that the air we’re breathing is clean and healthy?