Mar 30, 2024 | Air Monitoring, Indoor/Outdoor Air Quality, Low Cost Monitoring Project, ROCIS Data
What we found by measuring CO2 Don Fugler Carbon 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...
Mar 30, 2024 | Indoor/Outdoor Air Quality, Low Cost Monitoring Project, ROCIS Data, Solutions
Because most modern air pollution (at least in southwestern Pennsylvania) is so small that it’s more or less invisible, it can be easy to ignore. That’s part of why we run the Low Cost Monitoring Project. Not only do we loan low cost air monitors to our LCMP...
Mar 30, 2024 | Announcements, Low Cost Monitoring Project
After nearly a decade at ROCIS, Don Fugler is heading into a well-earned retirement. Don Fugler was a part of ROCIS before there was a ROCIS. When Don set out to assess the existing knowledge about reducing exposure to exterior pollutants, what he found was crucial in...
Mar 30, 2024 | Air Monitoring, Indoor/Outdoor Air Quality
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...
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,...
