UCI’s Don Blake travels the world searching for what we breathe

Strapped into a NASA-modified DC-8, UC Irvine professor Donald Blake fiddles with some knobs on a crate that holds canisters that contain the key element of his career: Air.

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UC Irvine professor Donald Blake, a pioneer in collecting air samples and an expert in analytical atmospheric chemistry, displays an air collection canister in his lab at UCI last week. Blake is studying how air pollution affects greenhouse gases in the global atmosphere. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
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