The National Institutes of Health grant titled, Radon on the RADAR, is a project led by Nursing Professor Stacy Stanifer, PhD, APRN, AOCNS and UK EES PhD student Donna Robinson, GIT of the Kentucky Geological Survey. It seeks to analyze soil processes and characteristics that correlate to high radon values indoors. A key factor in the movement of radon gas through soil is soil moisture content. Who has data related to soil moisture content? The Kentucky Mesonet stations. They measure soil moisture at multiple depths from dozens of locations, as well as measuring atmospheric variables that can also influence radon migration.
How did the KGS, in Lexington, connect with the KY Mesonet, centralized in Bowling Green? Through CLIMBS collaborations between the two organizations.
Says Robinson, “Our connection with the KY Mesonet provides a synergistic opportunity to combine these variables with soil radon values using KGS resources, which combined will further our understanding of these complex soil processes and enable us to better advise the commonwealth on radon as a geologic hazard.”
We build new research connections and reinforce existing ones across the Commonwealth. Sometimes, those connections even go beyond the scope of NSF.
Read more about the project here: https://lnkd.in/eWBdrKct
