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
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)