# Environmental Modeling and Exposure Assessment Facility Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · 2021 · $168,664

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY – ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING AND EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT
FACILITY
The primary goal of the Environmental Modeling and Exposure Assessment Facility (EMEAF) is
to facilitate the research efforts of EHSRC investigators by providing a variety of unique services
and equipment needed to understand the relationship between contaminants and other agents
found in rural environments and their impact on human health. The EMEAF addresses this goal
through the following specific aims:
Aim 1) Enhance resources and expertise for modeling of airborne contaminants and exposure
assessment;
Aim 2) Support EHSRC research Cores and pilot studies
Aim 3) Facilitate multidisciplinary research among EHSRC investigators
Aim 4) Provide expertise, as well as facilitate interaction, in the continuum of exposure
 assessment and epidemiological investigation;
Aim 5) Contribute to training of future agricultural and rural environmental health researchers.
The EMEAF is operated through a combination of personnel that optimizes both the services
offered by the Facility as well as the expertise of its members to facilitate collaborations and
provide aid to junior investigators. They include faculty and staff with expertise in exposure
assessments, modeling and data analysis. The EMEAF achieves its goals through its collection
of state-of-the-art instruments and laboratories. Combined they include a wide variety of
instruments used to sample gases, vapors, aerosols and radon in addition to those capable of
analyzing various chemical compounds in complex matrices, including water, food, air, blood
and tissue samples. EMEAF modeling capabilities include those used to determine the spatial
distribution of air pollutants and the deposition of particles in the human lung. EMEAF faculty
and staff provide consultation and training to Center investigators planning research projects
involving the assessment of environmental exposures on human health. The EMEAF is a
unique facility on the campus of the University of Iowa that has strong associations with (U.I.)
central facilities. Together with these facilities and its collection of instruments and related
support, the EMEAF allows Center investigators to prepare cost-effective budgets when
soliciting extramural funds for their research.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10146859
- **Project number:** 5P30ES005605-31
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
- **Principal Investigator:** PATRICK T O'SHAUGHNESSY
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $168,664
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1997-04-01 → 2022-06-16

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10146859

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10146859, Environmental Modeling and Exposure Assessment Facility Core (5P30ES005605-31). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10146859. Licensed CC0.

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