Mar 24, 2025 | Air Monitoring, Blog, Cooking, Indoor/Outdoor Air Quality, Low Cost Monitoring Project, ROCIS Data, Solutions
Many air quality hazards aren’t easy to detect by sight or smell—so how do you know if you have a problem? Low-cost air quality monitors have made it easier than ever to learn the truth about our exposure to air pollution. But just having the monitors is only...
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, Solutions
Pittsburgh Has a Particle Pollution Problem The air quality in Pittsburgh is among the worst in the country, but you can protect the air you breathe in your home. ROCIS presents the following overview of particle pollution and what you can do about it indoors. First,...
Mar 30, 2024 | Air Monitoring, Indoor/Outdoor Air Quality
“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...
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...
