> What is the Air Resources Laboratory and what do you do?
What is the Air Resources Laboratory and what do you do?
Thanks for looking at our web site, and for showing interest in the work
we are doing.
This group is a part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), which is perhaps best known as the Agency that
also houses the National Weather Service. Our job is basically to
provide forecasts to protect people, and to make sure that the
environment is protected well. This is the mandate given to us by
Congress. As a part of the federal bureaucracy, we take the mission
provided by Congress very seriously, and strive to ensure that we make
use of all available methods to inform the public of the work we are
doing. This is why we rely so heavily on the Internet.
NOAA was founded by President Nixon in 1970, at the same time as he
founded the EPA. There is a lot of collaboration between NOAA and the
EPA. The Air Resources Laboratory (of which we are a part) was set up
much earlier, however. The history of ARL goes back to the time soon
after World War 2, when concerns first started to arise about air
pollution and its transport from one place to another.
There are about 90 people working in ARL, spread across all of our
Divisions. We have Divisions in Nevada, Idaho, Maryland,
and Tennessee.
Please let us know if any other questions come to your mind.
