Blog Category:
Monitoring
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Monitoring
Posts about air quality monitoring and your health.
Radon Reality Check
by Shaina Lacap The ROCIS radon data shows that we should all be testing for radon, but testing isn’t enough.While most Americans are aware of the risks associated with smoking, the health impacts of radon often fall under the radar. Radon is the second leading cause...
Breathing lessons from 400 Pittsburgh families
Don FuglerCarbon dioxide (CO2) is everywhere. It’s in the breath you exhale, the emissions from your gas stove, and the smoke from your fireplace. Plants use it during photosynthesis to produce oxygen and sugars. Everyone knows CO2 as the “greenhouse gas” that leads...
Purple in Pittsburgh and Abroad
Low-cost air monitoring is a rapidly evolving field with the acceleration of new and modified products. One monitor which performed well in a study from the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab is the PurpleAir PA-II Dual Laser Air Sensor. This laboratory analysis provided...
Inversions in SWPA
“Weather inversions don’t inherently stink. It’s the pollution trapped by inversions that stinks.” —Mark Dixon Smoke has been a fixture in the coal-rich inversion-prone Pittsburgh region for centuries. Only in the 1900s did community members finally come together to...
Millvale Community Library: Why We ROCIS
For 150 years, Millvale has sat opposite Lawrenceville on the Allegheny River, sharing in many of the economic successes of the region. When much of local industry left Pittsburgh with a trail of economic and environmental distress, Millvale shared in that as well....