June 2025
This month, EM highlights the success stories and lessons learned during the implementation of low-cost air quality sensors.
Inside This Month's Issue
Features
Low-Cost Air Sensors
by Mingming Lu, Yiqiu Lin, and Colleen Marciel F. Rosales
How Open Data Empowers Communities: A Case Study in Eastern San Francisco
by Carolina Correa
Monitoring Smoke: An Exploration of Low-Cost Sensors
by Edward Ballaron, Eli Lessman, David Frisbey, and Shawn Boyle
Coal Train Monitoring Using AI-Accelerated Computer Vision
by Nicholas Spada and Dhawal Majithia
Integrating Portable Monitoring Instruments into Air Quality Courses
by Mingming Lu
Quality Assurance and Control of Air Sensors: EPA Efforts to Advance Information Sharing, Education, and Tools to Improve Air Sensor Data Quality
by Andrea L. Clements, Karoline K. Barkjohn, Elizabeth Good, and Corey Mocka
Also This Month...
A Summary of the 55th Annual A&WMA Critical Review: Satellite Data to Support Air Quality Assessment and Management
by Tracey Holloway, Jennifer Bratburd, Arlene Fiore, Gaige Kerr, and Jingqiu Mao
Inside the Industry: AI in Environmental Consulting: Ready or Not, the Future Is Here
by Alan Agadoni and Dianne Crocker
Climate Change Perspectives: Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change
by Miriam Lev-On and Perry Lev-On
YP Perspective: The Challenge of Visual Pollution
by Fatemeh Keramat
Message from the President: ACE Is the Place to Be!
by Leah Blinn
EPA Research Highlights
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