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Undisciplined: Nature Is Healing

Utah Public Radio | By Shoshannah Buxbaum
Published August 19, 2021 at 5:47 PM MDT
Bryan Ungard

University of Utah researchers set out to measure changes in Park City’s air quality during the ski season and Sundance Film Festival. Then COVID-19 hit. And the city went into lockdown. And the data became even more fascinating.

Daniel Mendoza is a professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences with joint appointments in Pulmonary Medicine and City & Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah.

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Shoshannah Buxbaum
Shoshannah Buxbaum is a multimedia journalist with a passion for telling narrative-driven stories about health, politics and culture. She's reported features, news spots and a half-hour special for Utah Public Radio. Before that she spent nearly six years at NJ PBS where she worked her way up from intern to producer. She’s a graduate from the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.
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