{"679920":{"#nid":"679920","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Airborne Lead and Chlorine Levels Soared as L.A. Wildfires Raged","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWildfires are becoming a bigger focus for scientists that study air pollution, said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/ng-dr-nga-lee-sally\u0022\u003ENga Lee (Sally) Ng\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E. Ng is also the principal investigator of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ascent.research.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EASCENT\u003C\/a\u003E, a new federally funded, national monitoring network that began last year to measure a wide range of air pollutants in real time. The readings from the Los Angeles area fires were captured at the network\u2019s monitoring station in Pico Rivera, several miles from the active fires.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EWildfires are becoming a bigger focus for scientists that study air pollution, said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/ng-dr-nga-lee-sally\u0022\u003ENga Lee (Sally) Ng\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E. Ng is also the principal investigator of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ascent.research.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EASCENT\u003C\/a\u003E, a new federally funded, national monitoring network that began last year to measure a wide range of air pollutants in real time. The readings from the Los Angeles area fires were captured at the network\u2019s monitoring station in Pico Rivera, several miles from the active fires.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-01-24 15:30:13","changed_gmt":"2025-01-27 13:32:12","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The New York Times ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/20\/climate\/los-angeles-wildfires-lead-chlorine-air-quality.html","dateline":{"date":"2025-01-20T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2025-01-20T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"175593","name":"School  of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"104451","name":"air pollution"},{"id":"147191","name":"wildfires"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}