Mar 30, 2024 | Cooking, Indoor/Outdoor Air Quality, Presentations, Solutions
How safe and healthy is your indoor air when cooking at home? Whether you cook for pleasure, for the health benefits, for the cost savings, or just as a matter of course, you probably make food in your kitchen on a regular basis. Not only does cooking release odors...
Mar 30, 2024 | Presentations, Stakeholder Meetings
Insights From and Implications of the ROCIS Low-Cost Monitoring Project Part of our mission at ROCIS is to build a network of stakeholders in the region who recognize the impact of poor ambient air quality on indoor spaces. ROCIS stakeholders include practitioners,...
Mar 30, 2024 | Presentations, Stakeholder Meetings
Next Steps: Western PA Initiatives to Reduce Outdoor Contaminants in Indoor Spaces Our stakeholder meetings are some of the most energizing experiences that we have in our work. This meeting was an opportunity to identify others in our region who share specific common...
Mar 30, 2024 | Indoor/Outdoor Air Quality, Presentations, Solutions
Creating Healthy Places: Protecting Indoor Spaces from Outdoor Pollution 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...
Mar 30, 2024 | Indoor/Outdoor Air Quality, Presentations, Solutions
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...
Mar 30, 2024 | Presentations, Stakeholder Meetings
Our stakeholder meetings are some of the most energizing experiences that we have in our work. The information in this meeting provided an excellent grounding in the history of air quality in the Pittsburgh region. We also used this opportunity to present a draft...