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	His research focus is exposure assessment and environmental epidemiology with a particular focus on health effects related to air pollution. Luke has current research projects on exposures related to wood smoke in Peru (pregnant women) and the southeastern U.S. (forest firefighters). He teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in environmental science, environmental health science, and air pollution at UGA, and is currently the major professor for several MS, PhD, and DrPH graduate students.</p>
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	Luke has taught at Au Sable (Pacific Rim) since 2007, where he deeply enjoys:</p>
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		introducing students to the important, fascinating, complex, and multi-disciplinary field of environmental health;</li>
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		providing students with the tools needed to understand how environmental systems function, how human activities impact these systems, and in turn how the altered systems affect humans;</li>
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		enabling students to identify and discuss current environmental health-related problems, as well as solutions to the problems;</li>
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		challenging students to reflect on the role their faith has in all these issues, and considering how their individual actions and lifestyle choices impact the environment;</li>
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		teaching students in the amazingly beautiful and diverse outdoors classrooms available in the Pacific Northwest &ndash; from rocky coastlines, to alpine meadows, and everything in between.</li>
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