Pereira M R, Ferrand E F
Environ Health Perspect. 1981 Jan;37:171-8. doi: 10.1289/ehp.8137171.
Sampling of airborne ragweed and other pollen grains in the City of New York is described as it took place during the months of August and September 1973. Three sampling stations participated in the program. This effort was meant to serve as the forerunner of a citywide volunteer pollen sampling network based on the cooperation of existing health care providing institutions, schools, and stations of the operational sampling network of the New York City Department of Air Resources. Monitoring stations were set up on the roof of Cooper Union School of Engineering at 51 Astor Place in downtown Manhattan, at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Inc. at Yonkers, N.Y. and use was made of the data supplied by Middlesex General Hospital, New Brunswick, N.J. Seasonal results of ragweed pollen sampling, undertaken at the downtown New York City location of Cooper Union with the swing-shield intermittant rotoslide sampler, are similar to those of studies undertaken in the 1940's and 1950's with the Durham slide sampler in the New York metropolitan area. Comparison of the collected data with converted data obtained in 1979 at Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center with the aid of a Durham gravity slide sampler shows the trend similarity of the data collected by us in 1973 and those obtained in 1979. Collected data of the 1973 ragweed season were supplied to the New York City news media on a daily basis, as a much appreciated service to the public.
本文描述了1973年8月和9月期间在纽约市进行的气传豚草及其他花粉粒采样情况。三个采样站参与了该项目。这项工作旨在成为一个全市范围的志愿者花粉采样网络的先驱，该网络基于现有医疗保健机构、学校以及纽约市空气资源部运营采样网络各站点的合作。监测站分别设在曼哈顿下城阿斯特广场51号库珀联盟工程学院的屋顶、纽约州扬克斯的博伊斯·汤普森植物研究所，同时还利用了新泽西州新不伦瑞克米德尔塞克斯综合医院提供的数据。在纽约市下城库珀联盟所在地，使用摆动屏蔽间歇旋转滑片采样器进行的豚草花粉采样的季节性结果，与20世纪40年代和50年代在纽约大都市地区使用达勒姆滑片采样器进行的研究结果相似。将收集到的数据与1979年在长岛犹太山边医疗中心借助达勒姆重力滑片采样器获得的转换后的数据进行比较，结果表明我们在1973年收集的数据与1979年获得的数据趋势相似。1973年豚草花粉季收集到的数据每天都提供给纽约市新闻媒体，这是一项深受公众赞赏的服务。
