Posts about indoor air quality, outdoor air quality, and your health.
The fan/filter is a DIY and low-cost strategy to effectively remove particles in the air. Our team recommends using a MERV-13 20×20 4″ filter for desired filtration and longevity. Through our Low-Cost Monitoring Project participants, we have seen a significant...
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...
“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...
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....
ROCIS was proud to bring together the knowledge, creativity, connections, and insight of our local community and beyond for a forum on the impact of outdoor pollution on indoor air quality. On the evening of December 4, 2014, we commenced the forum with networking,...
ROCIS focuses a lot on the particles in our air. Several of the monitors used in the Low Cost Monitoring Project (LCMP) produce data about the particle levels, and we’ve designed numerous interventions that specifically target particulate matter. Why are we so fixated...