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Measurement Technology Group
| Contact Information |
Group Leader: Conniesue Oldham
Phone: 919-541-7774
Secretary: Dorothy Apple
Phone: 919-541-5582
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Fax: 919-541-0516
Address: Research Triangle Park,
North Carolina 27711
Mail Drop E143-02
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| Principal Responsibilities |
The MTG leads or performs the following functions:
- Demonstrates and evaluates emerging measurement and monitoring technologies that will make the characterization of
multi-pollutant air emissions more continuous, accurate and cost effective;
- Integrates the characterization of source emissions and ambient air quality measurement and monitoring technologies
into a single framework;
- Develops and specifies critical measurement and monitoring procedures and performance specifications for the assessment
of air quality and emissions to inform air quality and risk management decisions;
- Proposes and promulgates federal reference test methods and performance specifications to: identify and quantify
lower concentrations of pollutants that now need to be measured; encourage and promote continuous, instrumental
methods that give multi-pollutant measurements; and provide technical expertise in assessing and interpreting the
application of the measurement methods and performance specifications;
- Demonstrates and evaluates emerging measurement technologies by participating in field activities to collect
data on the performance of new technologies, partnering with private companies to promote improved measurement technologies,
and collaborating with other EPA offices and Federal agencies to apply new technologies in the field as quickly as possible; and
- Integrates ambient and source measurement technology applications by:
- Evaluating new measurement technologies for application to both ambient and source emissions;
- Encouraging air quality management policies and assessments to consider the total ambient and source
contributions in one integrated framework;
- Encouraging private vendors to consider extensions of the new measurement technologies into integrated
applications for both ambient and source multi-pollutant emissions:
- Utilizing research efforts of the Small Business Innovative Research Program and the Environmental
Technology Verification Program to expand integrated, multi-pollutant measurement efforts; and
- Collaborating with colleagues in the Office of Research and Development to produce new applications
of both current and emerging measurement technologies.
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