"They're succeeding at some of the big but simpler problems and really just getting started on more complicated secondary pollutant problems, " said Chris Nielsen, another researcher on the project and executive director of Harvard's China Project, which focuses on the atmospheric environment.

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With her friends Joshua Smith (principal flutist in the Cleveland Orchestra) and Cynthia Phelps (principal violist in the New York Philharmonic), she chose a set of atmospheric, ethereal works that have what she calls an "esoteric" connection with nature and the environment.

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Therefore, the FRIEND-AMIGO LAC Project is trying to deepen knowledge and understanding of the hydrologic and atmospheric processes leading to floods and the conceptualization and characterization of this phenomenon and its causes in an evolving environment.

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