Many reliable and credible scientific journals related to building science most relevant to the microbiology of the built environment are listed here. These are selected based on our personal experience and judgment and do not constitute a comprehensive or definitive list. Indoor Air — International Journal of Indoor Environment and Health Indoor Air provides a …
Well, kudos I suppose to the headline writer for this one: Your faeces, my furry friend, are blowin’ in the wind – health – 12 August 2011 – New Scientist. The article is about recent work by Noah Fierer and colleagues on bacteria in outdoor air in cities. Not exactly microbiology of the built environment …
Interesting blog post from the BioBE Center worth checking out regarding Unsavory sources of bacteria in urban air referencing a new paper from Noah Fierer and others. Alas the paper is not OpenAccess and even I can’t get a copy of it right now. But it seems interesting …
During Indoor Air 2011 there was a lot of buzz about this report which came out halfway through the meeting. The full title is “Climate Change, the Indoor Environment, and Health (2011)”. This 246-page report by the Institute of Medicine of the National Acadamies goes into great detail about the various ways that climate change …
I’m currently at Indoor Air 2011 sitting in on the Sloan Foundation-sponsored sessions on microbiology of the built environment. There are a number of great talks taking place and we hope to post some more information in the form of slides later. We’ll probably also post a more formal write-up about some of the discussions …
Well this is disconcerting. A scientist who works for the Naval War College (Mark Lyles) has been doing research on dust from the War Zones in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait. And the results appear to be disconcerting. All sorts of elevated levels of toxins are reported to have been found in the dust. Though I …
Just found this video from the USGS. It is about microbes associated with African dust storms so not exactly about the Built Environment but it still has some connections so thought I would post it. The narration is a bit, well, monotonic, but still … it has some OK stuff in it. YouTube – African …
Interesting article in the Scientist on air associated microbes: Atlas of the atmosphere – The Scientist – Magazine of the Life Sciences. Worth a look for those interested in indoor air microbiology.
A future meeting worth checking out for those interesting in microbiology of the built environment: Bioaerosol.org. Help September 6-9 2011 in Saratoga Springs NY. It is the “6th International Scientific Conference on Bioaerosols, Fungi, Bacteria, Mycotoxins in Indoor and Outdoor Environments and Human Health.” Among the areas of focus will be Natural disaster, flooding, water …
Just a quick post on a workshop of possible interest: Building Design and Engineering Approaches to Airborne Infection Control. The workshop is August 1-12 in Boston, MA. It is organized by the Harvard School of Public Health. The overview from the website says: “A significant bottleneck in the implementation of precautions against airborne transmission of …