Personal Exposure using Low Cost PM Sensors in Low Income Denver Communities
MARYAM ANIYA KHALILI, Nicholas Clements, Sophie Dolores Castillo, Dulce Gonzalez-Beltran, Allison Heckman, Tim Herwig, Marisa Westbrook, Valentina Serrano-Salomon, Omar Hammad, Esther Sullivan, Shivakant Mishra, Shelly L. Miller,
University of Colorado Boulder Abstract Number: 559
Working Group: Instrumentation and Methods
AbstractThe Social Justice and Environmental Quality (SJEQ) – Denver project funded by National Science Foundation is working in the communities of Globeville, Elyria-Swansea, Cole, and Clayton in Denver, Colorado to understand and improve the disruption from the major construction going on in the area. Community members use personal low cost PM sensors (Atmotubes) to monitor their exposure to air pollution as they go about their day. During our first Cohort more than 50 participants from the communities joined our project and used the Atmotube sensors for an entire month. We finished Cohort one on March 4th 2022. We also successfully deployed five QuantAQ sensors outdoors in the community for the whole cohort time period.
Our second cohort is starting May 20th 2022 and ends on June 20th 2022. In this presentation we will describe our initial analysis of these exposure data. We correct our data using measurements from calibration colocation experiments. Finally we will study these air quality data looking for trends and information about air quality exposure (PM1, PM2.5) within the community.