Contact: Nicole Riehl Pollution in the PoleIt's amazing Santa can navigate his sleigh out of the North Pole. The Arctic is a collection area for much of the world's polluted air, according to a University of Iowa researcher who will use a $750,000 NASA grant to examine the atmosphere above the Arctic. Greg Carmichael, professor of chemical and biochemical engineering in the UI College of Engineering, said the Arctic is an atmospheric receptor of pollution from the northern mid-latitudes, as shown by thick aerosol layers called "arctic haze." It has been collecting smoke and residue from forest fires of northern Europe, Asia and North America. ###
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