Tag: Christine Rogers

  • Science & Tech

    Mold, mold everywhere

    Mold has attacked what remains of New Orleans, engulfing the city in slime. Typically, clean indoor environments show mold spore concentrations of less than 1,000 per cubic meter of air. But in Katrina’s wake, the numbers have hit several million due to widespread, persistent flooding. That’s the preliminary report from Christine Rogers, a senior research…

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  • Science & Tech

    Climate, asthma connected, according to research

    Christine Rogers, a research associate at the Harvard School of Public Health, measures particulates – pollen grains and fungal spores – in outdoor air and correlates levels with asthma events. She also examines how those particulate levels might change over time because of global warming. “One of the most predictable effects of global warming is…

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