Tue, Jan 20
|on Zoom
Rockville Science Cafe Online Lecture Series
“Breathe Better: The Fundamentals of Indoor Air Quality” with Dr. Dustin Poppendieck from the National Institute of Standards and Technology
Time & Location
Jan 20, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
on Zoom
About the event
Please register for the Zoom link in advance: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/X793JRDmQXOdW_XUJCAzyA#/registration
All are welcome to join us for January's edition of Rockville Science Cafe, a monthly online lecture series featuring talks with scientists from near and far. This month we'll hear from Dr. Dustin Poppendieck with the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Dr. Poppendieck has a Ph.D. in environmental engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
Topic: We spend 90 percent of our time indoors. The concentrations of most chemicals are higher indoors than out. Yet we rarely think about how we can influence the actual air we breathe. This talk will discuss the fundamentals of indoor air quality and what you can do to improve what you breathe.
Our speaker: Dustin Poppendieck is an environmental engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He is interested in how building materials, building envelopes, low energy building designs, air filtration,…