Students from across the city, including forty from Brooklyn’s New York City College of Technology (City Tech), took part in the NYPD‘s second simulation of a dirty bomb event throughout the city this past summer, according to a recent post on the City Tech website. Two City Tech professors also served as Co-Project Coordinators, Dr. Reginald Blake and Dr. Janet Liou-Mark. The previous simulation was in 2005.
The Subway-Surface Air Flow Exchange (S-SAFE), as the project is formally known, was commissioned by the NYPD and funded through a $3.4 million Department of Homeland Security Transit Security Grant. Undergraduate students, field meteorologists and engineers, and researchers from Argonne and Los Alamos National Laboratories supported Brookhaven National Laboratory scientists as they tracked the movement of perfluorocarbon tracer gases (PFTs) above and below ground in the city.
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