Thank you to the AARP/Senior Planet team for hosting us early in 2025 for an invited talk titled “Air Quality Monitoring by Citizen Scientists“. In this presentation, we discussed our work to help democratize air quality monitoring through our design and development of the Local Haze air quality monitoring app, working to make air quality… Read More »AARP Senior Planet talk: Air Quality Monitoring by Citizen Scientists
Local Haze is an iPhone app that crowdsources over 32,000 air quality sensors across six continents. We are excited to announce that our upcoming release will include an Apple Watch app in the existing “all functionality” subscription. If you would like to participate in a beta release of Local Haze, including Watch support, you will… Read More »The Local Haze Apple Watch app will soon be available for beta release!
The Local Haze team regrets to announce that air quality data from United States Embassies is no longer available. For years, our work on the Local Haze has relied on accurate, real-time air quality data from the US Department of State measured at US Embassies worldwide. The shutdown of this program is a blow to… Read More »Air quality data from United States Embassies is no longer available
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. On stop #7 we are checking out the air quality in Nairobi, Kenya!
The Local Haze team participated in a panel discussion with leaders from Piera Systems and Accenture on the impact of new, lower-cost air quality monitors used in communities worldwide and how these innovative technologies provide more data sources for understanding health impacts and the effects of the ongoing energy transition. The panel was hosted by MIT EESN member Sarah Simon.
We are happy to announce that in version 2.2.2 of Local Haze, we have added AirNow notifications!
The Local Haze team recently interviewed Dr. Nicholas Newman, a Physician-Researcher in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA whose work is focused on providing care to children exposed to environmental toxicants and children with special health care needs.
Local Haze has a new release with support for adding widgets to your iPhone Home Screen!
For the Local Haze Blog we interviewed Sarah Simon, a Boston-based environmental engineer, author, and former Deputy Director of the Air Quality Division at the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. Sarah is the author of the book “Protecting Clean Air: Preventing Pollution” (published by Momentum Press in 2017)
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. On stop #6 we are checking out the air quality in Madagascar!