Research

We work with communities to address inequities in air pollution exposures. We have developed hyperlocal air quality monitoring networks. We deliver community science training series on air quality monitoring and triage communities as recipients of air sensors based on environmental justice screening and mapping tools that recognize them as environmentally burdened. We are currently working with partners at George Washington University on a NASA-funded grant to form and convene a community advisory board to model air quality, environmental justice, and health benefits resulting from emission reductions in New York City, Chicago, and Houston. Emission reductions will be achieved by reductions in traffic activity and/or emissions, specifically by targeting different types of vehicles (light versus heavy-duty) and different spatial scales (citywide versus neighborhood scale). ZIP code-averaged TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) NO₂ for the New York City, NY and Chicago, IL metropolitan statistical areas. TROPOMI measurements used for these ZIP code averages span May 2018 – December 2019 and were first oversampled to 1 km x 1 km.