Personal Exposure Monitoring of the Air Pollutants Ozone and Black Carbon as a K-

作为 K- 的空气污染物臭氧和黑碳的个人暴露监测

• 批准号: 8706327
• 负责人: John W Birks
• 金额: $ 14.97万
• 依托单位: 2B TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-05-16 至 2014-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8706327
• 关键词: Affect; Age; Air; Air Pollutants; Air Pollution; Asthma; Awareness; Carbon Black; Cessation of life; Communication; Communities; Computer software; Country; Data; Data Analyses; Data Display; Databases; Education and Outreach; Educational Background; Educational Curriculum; Environmental Health; Equipment; Exposure to; Funding; Health; Health Professional; Health Sciences; Heart Diseases; Human; Individual; International; Internet; K-12 Education; Knowledge; Lead; Learning; Low Birth Weight Infant; Lung diseases; Malignant neoplasm of lung; Maps; Measurement; Measures; Monitor; Myocardial Infarction; National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Neighborhoods; Ozone; Performance; Phase; Pollution; Public Health; Qualifying; Resources; Risk; Schools; Scientist; Social Network; Source; Students; Susceptibility Gene; Technology; Testing; Time; Toxic Environmental Substances; Training; Walking; base; commercialization; design; environmental justice; experience; gene environment interaction; health disparity; high school; improved; instrument; instrumentation; interest; junior high school; outreach program; pollutant; premature; programs; public health relevance; research study; spatial temporal variation; success; teacher; tool; tropospheric ozone

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose to make air pollution personal by enabling K-12 students to act as citizen scientists using sophisticated, mobile air pollution monitors to measure their individual exposures to black carbon, a primary pollutant, and ozone, a secondary pollutant. Through their experiments and specially designed curricula, students will learn when and where they and others are exposed to these damaging air pollutants and how that exposure can affect their health. Ozone and black carbon are two of the most damaging air pollutants to human health, and it has been shown that both are asthma triggers and can lead to other health problems, including heart disease and even premature death. Heightened awareness of the way air quality impacts health is vital, and nothing is more impactful than understanding exposure at a personal level. Through our nonprofit partner the GO3 Project, ~50 schools will be loaned a 2B Tech Personal Ozone Monitor (POM) and microAeth personal black carbon monitor (AethLabs), both accurate, pocket-sized monitors, for a period of two weeks each, allowing up to ~1,000 day-long personal monitoring experiments. The instruments are equipped with GPS capabilities so students can track their daily activities or planned excursions and upload their data to share with other students and citizens online. Furthermore, these excursions will highlight air quality disparities in different regions or neighborhoods, raising awareness of environmental justice issues. We will develop specific software for online analysis and display on Google Earth and Google Maps. Students will be able to compare and discuss data with students at ~85 schools around the world via the already established GO3 Social Network. The project includes full curricula and activities on the science and health effects of ozone, black carbon and other air pollutants, allowing students to further their understanding in conjunction with hands-on experimentation with sophisticated, mobile instrumentation. Near the end of the Phase I project, we will assess its success in terms of logistical problems encountered, equipment and software, data quantity and quality, learning, experiences, and what can be done to improve the GO3 Project for implementation in 500 schools during Phase II. The Phase II commercialization plan will show how the GO3 Project with personal monitoring can be expanded to thousands of schools through self-funding in an already established educational Green Fundraiser and through additional personal and corporate donations.

描述（由申请人提供）：我们建议通过使K-12学生作为公民科学家使用复杂的，移动的空气污染监测器来测量他们个人暴露于黑碳，一种主要污染物和臭氧，二次污染物，使空气污染个人化。通过他们的实验和专门设计的课程，学生将了解他们和其他人何时何地暴露于这些有害的空气污染物，以及这种暴露如何影响他们的健康。臭氧和炭黑是对人类健康危害最大的两种空气污染物，研究表明，两者都是哮喘的诱因，并可能导致其他健康问题，包括心脏病甚至过早死亡。提高对空气质量影响健康方式的认识至关重要，没有什么比了解个人层面的暴露更有影响力。通过我们的非营利合作伙伴GO 3项目，约50所学校将被借给2B技术个人臭氧监测器（POM）和microAeth个人黑碳监测器（AethLabs），这两种监测器都是精确的，口袋大小的监测器，每个为期两周，允许长达1,000天的个人监测实验。这些仪器配备了GPS功能，因此学生可以跟踪他们的日常活动或计划的短途旅行，并上传他们的数据与其他学生和公民在线共享。此外，这些短途旅行将突出不同地区或社区的空气质量差异，提高对环境正义问题的认识。我们将开发专门的在线分析软件，并在谷歌地球和谷歌地图上显示。学生将能够通过已经建立的GO 3社交网络与世界各地约85所学校的学生进行数据比较和讨论。该项目包括关于臭氧、炭黑和其他空气污染物的科学和健康影响的完整课程和活动，使学生能够通过使用复杂的移动的仪器进行动手实验来加深理解。在第一阶段计划接近尾声时，我们会从后勤问题、许褚和软件、数据数量和质量、学习、经验，以及如何改善GO 3计划，以便在第二阶段在500所学校实施等方面，评估该计划是否成功。第二阶段的商业化计划将展示如何通过一个已经建立的教育绿色筹款机构的自筹资金以及通过额外的个人和企业捐款，将带有个人监测的GO 3项目扩展到数千所学校。