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The Citizen Science Toolbox: A One-Stop Resource for Air Sensor Technology
Citation:
Kaufman, A., A. Brown, T. Barzyk, AND R. Williams. The Citizen Science Toolbox: A One-Stop Resource for Air Sensor Technology. EM: AIR AND WASTE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION'S MAGAZINE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGERS. Air & Waste Management Association, Pittsburgh, PA, , 48-49, (2014).
Impact/Purpose:
The National Exposure Research Laboratory’s (NERL’s) Human Exposure and Atmospheric Sciences Division (HEASD) conducts research in support of EPA’s mission to protect human health and the environment. HEASD’s research program supports Goal 1 (Clean Air) and Goal 4 (Healthy People) of EPA’s strategic plan. More specifically, our division conducts research to characterize the movement of pollutants from the source to contact with humans. Our multidisciplinary research program produces Methods, Measurements, and Models to identify relationships between and characterize processes that link source emissions, environmental concentrations, human exposures, and target-tissue dose. The impact of these tools is improved regulatory programs and policies for EPA.
Description:
The air sensor technology market is exploding with new sensors in all kinds of forms. Developers are putting sensors in wristbands, headphones, and cell phone add-ons. Small, portable and lower-cost measurement devices using sensors are coming on the market with a wide variety of potential uses to measure air quality in a neighborhood, school or near sources of air pollution such as highways and industrial facilities where air quality is a concern(1). The benefits of advanced sensor technologies are many and offer the potential opportunity to transform how we monitor air quality. Such technology has the potential to enable citizen scientists to gather local air quality data to help them better understand the air in their community.
URLs/Downloads:
AIR SENSOR TECHNOLOGY-2014EM ARTICLE (JUNE-24-2014).PDF (PDF, NA pp, 47.98 KB, about PDF)Air & Waste Management Association
