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Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering
Expertise:
environmental engineering
Contact:
sc3623@drexel.edu
215.895.6726
Capps leads the Drexel Atmospheric Modeling Lab, where her group studies how the location of fossil fuel and other emissions affects public health and climate endpoints through ozone production, aerosol formation and cloud brightening. Her research centers on modeling outdoor air quality and atmospheric behavior in regions that have been or could be affected by externalities of fossil fuel extraction, transport, refinement and consumption.
The Atmospheric Modeling Lab is helping to develop and test the latest air quality modeling programs to estimate the influence of emissions sources on health, ecosystem, and climate impacts of pollutants. Its modeling focuses on the human effect of pollution by projecting impacts over a short time period—up to one year—and at a regional scale, to help inform environmental decision making.
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For news media inquiries contact Britt Faulstick at bef29@drexel.edu or 215.895.2617.
Policy Like EPA’s Clean Power Plan Would Mean Higher Crop Yields
Shannon Capps, PhD, an assistant professor in the College of Engineering, was quoted in a Dec. 22, Ars Technica story about her research on projecting the future effects of emissions-reduction policies, similar to those proposed in the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, on crops and vegetation.
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Peter DeCarlo, PhD, an assistant professor in the College of Engineering and College of Arts and Sciences; and Shannon Capps, PhD, an assistant professor in the College of Engineering, were mentioned in a Nov. 18 WHYY/Newsworks.org story about increased air pollution during the SEPTA strike earlier this month.
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