AQEarth: Program Empowering Communities to Explore Map and Improve Air Quality

AQEarth：赋予社区探索地图和改善空气质量的计划

• 批准号: 10311244
• 负责人: John W Birks
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: LUDLUM MEASUREMENTS, 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 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10311244
• 关键词: Adopted; Adoption; Advocate; Air; Air Pollutants; Air Pollution; Alaska; Applications Grants; Area; Businesses; Calibration; Carbon; Carbon Dioxide; Cities; Climate; Clinical Trials; Colorado; Communities; Contracts; Country; Coupled; Development; Education; Environment and Public Health; Environmental Epidemiology; Environmental Exposure; Environmental Health; Exposure to; Funding; Funding Opportunities; Future; Goals; Grant; Health; Home; Human; Humidity; Infrastructure; International; Knowledge; Lead; Learning; Location; Love; Maps; Measurement; Measures; Methods; Mexico; Monitor; National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Navajo; Neighborhoods; Nitrogen Dioxide; Ozone; Parents; Particulate; Particulate Matter; Periodicity; Phase; Precipitation; Professional counselor; Replication-Associated Process; Research; Research Project Grants; Resolution; Schools; Seasonal Variations; Services; Source; Students; System; Technology; Temperature; Testing; Tracer; Tribes; Ultraviolet Rays; United States National Institutes of Health; Validation; Walking; Weather; Workplace; air monitoring; air sampling; base; commercialization; community center; cost; data quality; empowered; environmental justice; epidemiology study; experience; fine particles; greenhouse gases; improved; innovation; instrument; instrumentation; member; miniaturize; novel; outreach program; pollutant; programs; public health intervention; remediation; sensor; sensor technology; tool; usability; validation studies

Project Summary Here we propose the development and implementation of a community-based air monitoring program for small towns, cities and regions around the world. AQEarth will be a synthesis of the best aspects of Denver’s Love My Air Program, funded by the Bloomberg Mayor’s Challenge, and AQTreks, a K-12 educational outreach program developed by 2B Technologies under a NIH/NIEHS SBIR Phase I and II project. AQEarth will empower communities to explore air pollution in their own neighborhoods and identify those sources that contribute most to their personal exposures. Communities participating in the AQEarth program will make use of three technologies developed successfully in three different SBIR projects – two from NIH and one from NSF. The Personal Air Monitor (PAM) allows students and other community members to measure the air pollutants CO, CO2 and particulate matter (PM1, PM2.5) along sidewalks, inside their homes, schools and workplaces and inside vehicles like cars and buses. A Mobile Air Pollution Sensors (MAPS) monitor will be developed here to upgrade our current CarTopper for measurements of five Criteria Air Pollutions – CO, PM2.5, O3, NO2, SO2 – along with CO2, the primary tracer of combustion and the most significant greenhouse gas. Accurate low-cost, sensor-based measurements of NO2 and SO2 will be made possible by the novel use of ozone generated by UV light as an internal standard to reduce sensitivity drift (an innovation likely to be patentable) and the use of a zeroing scrubber to cancel baseline drift. MAPS will enable mapping of these air pollutants throughout a city with high spatial resolution using a combination of community vehicles such as parents’ cars, buses, trams and city service vehicles. The third SBIR-developed technology that makes mobile measurements using low-cost sensors possible is AQSync, a fixed- base monitoring station containing highly accurate miniaturized instruments. The AQSync will serve both as a walk-by or drive-by reference station for maintaining the calibrations of the low-cost mobile sensors of the PAM and MAPS and as a long-term monitoring station for determining the diurnal, day-to-day and seasonal variations of air pollutants at that location. The AQEarth program will be deployed in three U.S. cities (Ft. Collins; CO, Anchorage, AL; Atlanta, GA), one tribal area (Navajo Nation, NM), and one international city (Mexico City) over a period of three years. This will allow us to gain experience with cities having a wide range of climates, a tribal jurisdiction, a community where environmental justice advocates will participate (Atlanta) and an international city. The program will be continuously improved as we gain experience with cities/tribes with widely different challenges. The AQEarth is a collaborative project with TD Environmental Systems, LLC, a leader in applications of air quality sensors, and the Denver Department of Public Health and Environment, where the highly successful Love My Air program was developed. The final deliverable will be a replicable community-based program for air pollution measurements coupled with education about air quality and its health effects and discovery of actionable knowledge that can be used to reduce exposure to air pollutants and improve human health.

项目摘要 在这里，我们建议制定和实施一个以社区为基础的空气监测计划， 世界各地的城镇和地区。AQEarth将是丹佛的爱我的空气的最佳方面的合成 计划，由彭博市长的挑战资助，和AQTreks，一个K-12教育推广计划，由 2B技术在NIH/NIEHS SBIR第一和第二阶段项目下。AQEarth将使社区能够探索空气 污染，并确定哪些来源，最有助于他们的个人暴露。 参与AQEarth计划的社区将利用在三个国家成功开发的三项技术。 不同的SBIR项目-两个来自NIH，一个来自NSF。个人空气监测器（PAM）允许学生和其他 社区成员测量空气污染物CO，CO2和颗粒物（PM 1，PM2.5）沿着人行道，内 他们的家、学校、工作场所以及汽车和公共汽车等车辆内。一种移动的空气污染传感器（MAPS） 监测器将在这里开发，以升级我们目前的CarTopper测量五个标准的空气污染- CO， PM2.5、O3、NO2、SO2 -沿着CO2，燃烧的主要示踪物和最重要的温室气体。准确 通过新颖地使用紫外线产生的臭氧，将使低成本、基于传感器的NO2和SO2测量成为可能 光作为内标，以减少灵敏度漂移（一项可能申请专利的创新）， 洗涤器以消除基线漂移。MAPS将使这些空气污染物在整个城市的地图， 解决方案使用社区车辆的组合，如父母的汽车，公共汽车，电车和城市服务车辆。的 SBIR开发的第三种技术是AQSync，它是一种固定的、可使用低成本传感器进行移动的测量的技术， 基地监测站，装有高度精确的小型仪器。AQSync将作为一个步行或 驱动参考站，用于维持PAM和MAPS的低成本移动的传感器的校准，并作为 设置一个长期监测站，以测定该处空气污染物的日变化、逐日变化和季节变化 位置. AQEarth计划将在美国三个城市部署。柯林斯; CO，安克雷奇，AL;亚特兰大，GA），一个部落 在三年的时间里，我们在一个地区（纳瓦霍民族，新墨西哥州）和一个国际城市（墨西哥城）进行了一次调查。这将使我们获得 有着广泛气候的城市经验，部落管辖权，环境正义的社区 倡导者将参加（亚特兰大）和一个国际城市。该计划将不断改进，因为我们获得 有着不同挑战的城市/部落的经验。AQEarth是与TD的合作项目 环境系统有限责任公司，空气质量传感器应用的领导者，和丹佛公共卫生部 和环境，在那里非常成功的爱我的空气计划的开发。最终的交付成果将是 可复制的以社区为基础的空气污染测量计划，加上关于空气质量及其 健康影响和发现可用于减少暴露于空气污染物和改善 人体健康