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Media Highlights for Local Haze
Breathing Easy in Pinellas County: How residents are tracking air quality themselves
The March/April 2026 issue of Indian Rocks Beach Neighborhood News features a piece written by the Local Haze team on how local residents are taking monitoring into their own hands – using affordable sensors, right in their own neighborhoods.
The AirGradient Ecosystem in Action with Local Haze
AirGradient’s open API and data-sharing platform are powering a growing ecosystem of third-party air quality tools, with Local Haze serving as a standout example. Local Haze is a free iPhone and Apple Watch app that aggregates real-time air quality readings from over 30,000 citizen-science sensors across six continents – including AirGradient monitors
AARP presentation: Air Quality Monitoring by Citizen Scientists
The AARP/Senior Planet hosted the Local Haze team in 2025 for an invited talk titled “Air Quality Monitoring by Citizen Scientists“. The presentation featured the Local Haze team’s efforts to democratize air quality monitoring and make air quality data accessible to citizen scientists worldwide.
2026
Local Haze blog (March 23, 2026)
From Pixels to Wetlands: A discussion with Glorianna Davenport and Brian Mayton from Living Observatory
Neighborhood News Magazine (March 6, 2026)
Breathing Easy in Pinellas County: How residents are tracking air quality themselves
2025
AirGradient blog (December 8, 2025)
“The AirGradient Ecosystem in Action with Local Haze” by Ethan Brooke
The Bridge Newspaper (November 2025 issue)
“Low-cost air quality monitors can minimize growing wildfire smoke impacts” Link to blog post | Link to PDF article
Local Haze blog: Local Haze supports AirGradient sensors (August 2025)
Empowering the Air: A Conversation with the AirGradient Team (Part 1) and (Part 2)
Press Release (June 27, 2025)
Local Haze App Version 2.3.0 Brings Air Quality Data to Apple Watch and Adds AirGradient Monitor Support
AARP Workshop (May 2025)
Slides for AARP Senior Planet talk: Air Quality Monitoring by Citizen Scientists
2024
2023
Panel discussion with the MIT Alumni Energy, Environment, and Sustainability Network (EESN)
“New Air Monitoring for Tracking Health and Energy Benefits” | Blog post with video
YouTube video
View the new tiny 43-second film for Local Haze
2022
TorontoCHI (TorCHI) presentation by Local Haze
Interactions @scale for monitoring air
2021
Medium Interview
Designing air quality monitoring for citizen scientists. Interview by Perry Grossman
The Next Web
Every navigation app should have Cowboy’s air-quality ebike route feature by Matthew Beedham
2020
Patch
Haze And Smoke Continues To Shroud Bay Area by Kat Schuster, Patch Staff
See the Air blog
Review: Local Haze v1.4 + uRAD Monitors (2020)
2019
See the Air blog
TOP 5 AQI Apps by Sotirios Papathanasiou
Earthwatch Stories
Air Quality: Community Engagement Helps Make the Invisible Visible by Mark Chandler, PhD., Director of International Research Initiatives
See the Air blog
Review: Purple Air II
Press Kit & Media Assets
Local Haze Press Kit page
Local Haze Media Assets page
Software Releases & Case Studies
Track our latest features and the real‑world value they bring
Local Haze users can now subscribe to receive notifications for significant air quality changes
Local Haze Release Update 1.5 – Performance improvements for PurpleAir sensors and AQI data on Sensors screen
Local Haze Release Update 1.4 – Enhanced PM sensor readings and additional sensors from uRADMonitor (4/11/2020)
Local Haze adds map sharing of crowdsourced air quality data (Release, 3/05/2020)
Local Haze “Patch” Update 1.3.1 – Map performance improvement (10/2019)
New release of Local Haze app for iPhone now includes searching by sensor location and mapping UI improvements
Case Study: Launching an app for rating the confidence of air quality sensor readings
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Local Haze is developed by HumanLogic. Please contact us at [email protected].