air quality
Partner Webinar: Communicating Air Quality During Fires: the Science Behind the AirNow Sensor Data Pilot
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) conducted the AirNow Sensor Data Pilot during the 2020 fire season to provide the public with air sensor information on the air pollutant, fine particulate matter (PM2.5), especially during smoke events from fires. The sensor data is shown on the Fire and Smoke Map, part […]
Partner Webinar: Air Sensor Performance Testing Protocols, Metrics, and Target Values for PM2.5 and Ozone
Lower cost air sensor technologies have flooded the marketplace and are being rapidly adopted by state, tribal and local agencies, community scientists, researchers, health professionals, schools, and many others to measure air quality conditions. Common applications for air sensors include understanding air quality trends, supplemental monitoring, monitor siting, identifying hot spots, monitoring in remote locations, […]
Partner Webinar: EPA Tools for Addressing Air Quality Impacts from Wildfires – AirNow Fire and Smoke Map
Part (1) of (2) Part Webinar on EPA Tools for Addressing Air Quality Impacts from Wildfires - AirNow Fire and Smoke Map. This webinar will be focused on the AirNow Fire and Smoke Map, and how air sensors can be used in a community smoke monitor network to measure how much smoke is entering indoor […]
Partner Webinar: Wildfires and Air Quality (Part 2) – Smoke Sense and Smoke Ready Communities
This webinar on Wildfires and Air Quality is part two of a two-part webinar on wildfires and addressing air impacts. This webinar will focus on the Smoke Sense citizen science project, and the Smoke Ready Communities Research Study. Part one will be/was held on April 8, which focused on AirNow Fire and Smoke Map, and […]
21st Annual National Tribal Forum on Air Quality (Virtual)
On behalf of the NTFAQ Planning Committee and all of us at the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals (ITEP), the National Tribal Air Association (NTAA), and the Tribal Air Monitoring Support Center (TAMS Center), it is our pleasure to open registration to the 21st Annual National Tribal Forum on Air Quality. This year we are pleased to […]
SFE Webinar: Potential Impacts of Prescribed Fire Smoke on Air Quality, Public Health, and Socially Vulnerable Populations in the Southeastern U.S.
A free one hour webinar from North Carolina State University, the Southern Fire Exchange, and the University of Florida. Society of American Foresters CFE Credit Expected. Presenters: Sadia Afrin, Graduate Research Assistant, Dept. of Civil, Construction & Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University Fernando Garcia Menendez, Assistant Professor Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, […]
Partner Webinar: Southeast Climate Monthly Webinar + Air Quality and Health
Join us for the Southeast Climate Monthly Webinar! These webinars provide the region's stakeholders and interested parties with timely information on current and developing climate conditions such as drought, floods, […]
Partner Webinar: Winners of the Cleaner Indoor Air During Wildfires Challenge
Join the EPA on October 26 as we announce the winners of the Cleaner Indoor Air During Wildfires Challenge. Winners will share their innovative designs for low-cost solutions that quietly […]
Partner Webinar: Comparing Air Quality and Public Health Impacts from Prescribed Fire and Wildfire Smoke
Join us for a conversation about the recent release of the EPA Report on Comparing Air Quality and Public Health Impacts from Prescribed Fire and Wildfire Smoke. Jason Sacks, with the Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will be joining us for an […]