Today the Local Haze blog welcomes Bay Area residents Michael and Judith. They share their perspectives on air quality monitoring and their experience with the installation of air quality sensors at their apartment building, a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) with 350 residents. As background, we connected with Judith and Michael through their son Randy,… Read More »Advocating for hyper-local air quality monitoring
We are taking a worldwide tour highlighting 80 AQI sensors around the globe, checking out how citizen scientists and air quality enthusiasts are monitoring their local air quality. Our first stop was in London UK at Victoria station and we have travelled eastward for stop #2 to the beautiful city of Porto in northern Portugal.
In the book “Around the World in 80 days”, the protagonist Phileas Fogg of London UK and his French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (roughly £2 million today). Inspired by Phileas and Passepartout’s global travels, join us as we take a world tour through the lens… Read More »Around the World in 80 Air Quality Sensors – guided by Local Haze
An interview with Dr. Jiahong Juda I met Dr. Jiahong Juda through the Boston technology scene. A physicist by training, Jiahong is also a board member who has worked to empower women in STEM careers. In recent years, Jiahong has been travelling throughout the western part of the US while living in an RV that… Read More »Air quality monitoring while living and travelling in an RV
Hello Green Bean, please tell us about yourself. I’m a 4.5 year old male eclectus parrot, and as you can see, I’m very green! What makes us eclectus parrots unique is that we are the most sexually dimorphic of all 350 types of parrots. In contrast, females are mostly red with a little blue or… Read More »Interview with Green Bean the Parrot (with Victoria K)