Webinar -Air Quality During COVID
Topic: Air Quality During COVIDBy: Dr. Trina Mackie of Touro UniversityTime: Nov 4, 2020 05:30 – 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) with Q&A session afterwardHow does the smoke affect our healthHow it changes our risk from COVIDHow to read the maps and monitorsHow to keep yourself safeOther actions to takeJoin Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84111561601?pwd=OEd2a1VHVC9yMFh6eWZzWktHY2lJUT09 Meeting ID: […]
Opportunity #1: Build public speaking skills, get letters of recommendation, and be a part of making Vallejo’s environment safer and healthier. Volunteers will get training on local air quality issues and their health impacts. They will learn about basic video composition and create video presentations to disseminate to peers and social networks. Volunteers will be […]
Welcome
Welcome to the Vallejo Citizen Air Monitoring Network (VCAMN). We are a group of Vallejo residents working to make the air and environment better for all here in our community. We have monthly meetings open to all, and we welcome a diverse participation from all Vallejo residents including the voices of our youth. We have […]
Bay Area Air Quality Management District Project
Community advocates call on cities and state to protect
climate, health and jobs from fast-approaching oil crisis
California communities and workers face an escalating climate jobs crisis that we can forestall
by scaling down oil refining for export over the next few years
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California Air Resources Board Community Air Grants Project:
• California refineries import crude to export fuels; from 2013–2017 they imported 66% of
the oil they refined and exported 20–33% of the refined fuels they produced.
Sensor Technology – Handheld XRF: How it works
XRF is an acronym for x-ray fluorescence, a process whereby electrons are displaced from their atomic orbital positions, releasing a burst of energy that is characteristic of a specific element. This release of energy is then registered by the detector in then XRF instrument, which in turn categorizes the energies by element. https://www.bruker.com/products/x-ray-diffraction-and-elemental-analysis/handheld-xrf/how-xrf-works.html
Citizen Engineers at the Fenceline
Citizen Engineers at the Fenceline
Air District-operated monitor – How-to
The relatively poor air quality over the past week or two is mostly due to recent meteorology conditions. The persistent high pressure over California right now leads to cooler temperatures, a low inversion layer, light winds (no storms), and poor vertical mixing. This meteorology pattern traps our area’s emissions within the area and closer to […]