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In this interview conducted at Pittcon 2024 in San Diego, we spoke to Seth Lyman about atmospheric mercury, exploring innovative measurement techniques, and the environmental impact of mercury pollution.

esearchers at the National Severe Storms Laboratory and several universities in the U.S. and U.K. recently tested artificial intelligence’s ability to generate a severe weather forecast. After some prompting and prodding, the AI eventually correctly ident...

Martin Water is building an oil and gas waste recycling facility next to the Circle 6 Baptist Camp in the Permian Basin despite concerns of water and air pollution.

Bingham Research Center works to improve Utah’s climate.

Utah's Oil Boom: Production in Utah's oil-rich Uinta Basin is at an all-time high. Texas oilman Jim Finley is credited with opening the floodgates.

This article is the second in a two-part series focusing on Utah’s Uinta Basin. Part 1looked at the Uinta Basin as an oil-and-gas-based economy that’s navigating cultural and regulatory complexities.1 As discussed there, one of its challenges is to reduce...

In eastern Utah’s Uinta Basin, air quality is a complicated issue. Oil and natural gas are key parts of Utah’s economy, but they also create heavy concentrations of wintertime ozone. On Thursday, Nov. 9, Seth Lyman explored this relationship during a USU...

John Lawson has joined Utah State University Uintah Basin and the Bingham Research Center as a senior air quality scientist. Lawson joined the center on Sept. 15.

The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality Air Quality Division (DEQ-AQD) was recently presented the Best Practice Award from the Association of Air Pollution Control Agencies (AAPCA). Wyoming DEQ-AQD received the national recognition for developing...

Last summer, as part of a summer research program at my high school, I spent weeks driving a pickup truck around northeast Utah’s Uintah Basin, where oil derricks and gas wells stretch as far as the eye can see, and the air pollution is even worse than ba...

The Bingham Research Center at Utah State University Uintah Basin hosted an open house on Aug. 28 to celebrate its accomplishments and to thank donors for their contributions. The open house hosted several guests, including a state senator, representat

This article is the first in a two-part series focusing on the oil and gas industry in Utah’s Uinta Basin. Look for Part 2 to be published in the December 2023 issue of EM.

Opponents say the rail line goes against the Biden administration’s efforts to fight climate change and could cause an East Palestine-type disaster on the Colorado River.

Utah State University Uintah Basin researchers have been working together with researchers in Slovenia to better assess atmospheric oxidized mercury measurements. The researchers collaborated to compare data as well as methods, with each trying to learn f...

Throughout the winter months, air quality is an issue on the minds of many who live in Utah, especially those who live in mountainous areas like the Uintah Basin. Because of cold winter temperatures and pollutant emissions from both businesses and residen...

Utah State University’s Bingham Research Center has received additional funding from the Utah Legislature as part of the 2023 state’s General Legislative Session. The bill will increase funding for the center’s Uintah Basin air quality research by $150,00...

Utah’s continuing and pressing problem of anomalous ozone formation in the Uinta Basin in the winter months also received funding and extension of one of the most far-reaching and ambitious studies of its kind to study the hazardous pollutant in eastern U...

It’s admittedly a complicated work commute. But for a lifelong snowboarder like Tyler Elgiar, who used to dream of working at a ski resort, the journey to the Storm Peak Laboratory above Steamboat Springs, Colorado, is about as good as it gets for a youn...

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Makenzie Holmes had opportunities for internships, research and one-on-one mentorship with professors, including Bingham Center Director Seth Lyman. With a strong undergraduate résumé full of diverse activity and experience, Holmes was accepted to the Doc...

But a research team led by John Lin, a U. atmospheric scientist, is now using long-term monitoring data to determine how much methane escapes

Researchers at Utah State University Uintah Basin have designed a mercury analyzer and deployed it at the Storm Peak Laboratory in Steamboat Springs, Colo. The analyzer measures elemental and oxidized mercury in the air and it is the only instrument in th...

In this issue, we give a brief report of ozone in the Uinta Basin during the past winter and discuss a few ongoing projects, including measurement of emissions from engines, recent modeling work, and thoughts on NOx versus VOC control of winter ozone. An...

Utah State University’s (USU) Bingham Research Center has teamed up with local oil and gas industry partners to address emissions of pollution that can lead to high wintertime ozone.

In this issue, we share news about changes in winter ozone that have occurred over the past few years, provide updates about how we are improving photochemical models, and show a comparison of methane concentrations during winters 2019 and 2020.

USU Uintah Basin researchers are working on an NSF-funded project that will measure air quality at Storm Peak at the top of the Steamboat Springs Ski Resort in Colorado through March 2023, with a particular focus on mercury.

Learn about the research being conducted by our team at The Bingham Research Center.

Utah State University’s air quality expert Seth Lyman was awarded the Clean Air Person of the Year by the Utah Clean Air Partnership (UCAIR) for his continued work into developing solutions to fight Utah’s air pollution problems in the Uintah Basin.

Six undergraduate researchers from USU’s College of Science are among about 30 Aggies selected to present research posters to state legislators and visitors to Utah’s Capitol Hill in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, February 18, from 8 a.m.-1 pm.

Director of the USU Bingham Research Center and Research Associate Professor in Chemistry, Dr. Seth Lyman visits with us about winter ozone in the Basin, what it is, why it's harmful and what we can do to help.

In an era of lawsuits and accusations, protests, rallies, marches and angry posters, there are those rare, odd times when groups on opposite sides of an issue can lay down their swords and work together.

A plan to require new pollution controls at coal-fired power plants in Utah was among the Environmental Protection Agency's greatest accomplishments under the Obama administration, according to one of the agency's former leaders.

Report on the inversion structure and winter ozone distribution in the Uintah Basin.

Levels of "background ozone" -- ozone pollution present in a region but not originating from local, human-produced source.

On October 1, 2015, EPA strengthened the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ground-level ozone to 70 parts per billion (ppb).