Community Sensing/

     Urban communities are dispropotionally challenged by various environmental hazards; heatwaves and poor air quality are of high concern. Most city dwellers, particularly in NYC and other East Coast cities live in buildings that lack adequate ventillation and air conditioning. All of which leads to some of the harshest  health inequalities in the nation. Part of our work is to coproduce solutions working with concerned communities. 

To address this complex issue we have together with community organizations developed a technology paltform that utilizes low-cost sensors to study street and building level microclimates. The system is highly flexible and uses low-intervention technology to observe and communicate data. These systems provide unique observations that are essential at personal and community level.

Our observations are further used to model and validate both satellite observations and numerical models.

The plots show our summer campaign in 2023 to study street level variability in Ozone and PM2.5. The goal was to understand the street level variability and validate the model development. Further, the data will also be used to calibrate the TEMPO satellite observations.