CEE Seminar - A sanitary engineering view of bioaerosol traffic in the atmospheric environment

While traditionally considered the domain of chemists and industrial hygienists, our indoor atmosphere is now an active frontier for environmental engineers. Indoor air carries microcellular hallmarks of life - both in primary and weathered forms. In this context, bioaerosols are defined as a generic class of airborne particulate matter comprised either in whole or in part of biogenic materials. The contribution of the most common primary biopolymers, to the pool of atmospheric organic carbon remains relatively unknown, as is their potential to weather and otherwise contribute to infectious or toxicological activity - indoors and out. New ways to characterize and control the aerobiology suspended in the built environment will be presented through the context of bioaerosol case studies of health care settings, occupied schools and natural disasters.