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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 involved in information outreach and dissemination in virtual formats. The hours and start date are flexible. The expectation is roughly 1-2 hours each week for 2-4 months. Opportunity #2: Gain technical training and hands-on experience with air quality monitor installation. Configure WiFi adaptors and connect routers. Be a part of…

The Vallejo Citizens Air Monitoring Network (CAMN) is pleased to announce the launch of its Clean Air Ambassador Program. The Program will provide funding and training to empower, mentor, and activate community leaders in Vallejo to take action for clean, healthy, and breathable air. Poor air quality from traffic, industry, refineries, and wildfires is a constant factor in environmental injustice and is linked to health issues, such as asthma, heart disease, and cancer. We are now recruiting for 2024-2025 Clean Air Ambassadors, please use the QR code below or use this form to sign up for the info session. First Info Session is on September 21, 2024,…

Grand Prize Winner Samantha Ventura – “The Importance of Healthy Air” My drawing is mostly about what healthy air helps us with and how important it is. It’s also about how we need healthy air in our daily lives. 5-12 Years Old Winners 5-12 1st Prize – Alexandra Ventura – “What Healthy Air Means to Me” This drawing shows how with healthy Air you can do many outside activities such as walking, biking and hiking and throwing parties. In addition, Healthy Air mean to me that you no longer need to wear a mask because of the harmful air that is caused because if many things for example…

http://citizenairmonitoringnetwork.org/art-for-air-2-vote/ Contest voting begins Tue. May 16, 2023 and ends Fri. June 16, 2023. The artworks will be displayed on our Art For Air Vote page when the voting period opens on Tue. May 16, 2023. During the voting period, viewers from the general public can vote for their top three favorites in each of three age groups, 5-12, 13-17, and 18+. Voting will end Fri. June 16, 2023. All entrants will have their work displayed in our Art For Air Gallery. The top three vote-getters in each age category will be awarded prizes of $25, $50, and $100. The top overall vote-getter will be awarded a…

The Vallejo Citizens Air Monitoring Network (CAMN) is pleased to announce the launch of its Clean Air Ambassador Program. The Program will provide funding and training to empower, mentor, and activate community leaders in Vallejo to take action for clean, healthy, and breathable air. Poor air quality from traffic, industry, refineries, and wildfires is a constant factor in environmental injustice and is linked to health issues, such as asthma, heart disease, and cancer. We are now recruiting for 2024-2025 Clean Air Ambassadors, please use the QR code below or use this form to sign up for the info session. First Info Session is on September…

Grand Prize Winner Samantha Ventura - "The Importance of Healthy Air" My drawing is mostly about what healthy air helps us with and how important it is. It's also about how we need healthy air in our daily lives. 5-12 Years Old Winners 5-12 1st Prize - Alexandra Ventura - "What Healthy Air Means to Me" This drawing shows how with healthy Air you can do many outside activities such as walking, biking and hiking and throwing parties. In addition, Healthy Air mean to me that you no longer need to wear a mask because of the harmful air that is caused because if many things…

Click here for more info about the contest: http://citizenairmonitoringnetwork.org/art-for-air-contest2/ Award Ceremony and Barbecue Party: Sat. Jun. 24, 12 - 4 pm St. Vincent's Hill Community Garden 1200 Marin St, Vallejo, CA 94590 5-12 Years Old [showcontestants id=16 showform=0 view=grid navbar=0] 13-17 Years Old [showcontestants id=17 showform=0 view=grid navbar=0] 18 Years + [showcontestants id=19 showform=0 view=grid navbar=0]

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http://citizenairmonitoringnetwork.org/art-for-air-2-vote/ Contest voting begins Tue. May 16, 2023 and ends Fri. June 16, 2023. The artworks will be displayed on our Art For Air Vote page when the voting period opens on Tue. May 16, 2023. During the voting period, viewers from the general public can vote for their top three favorites in each of three age groups, 5-12, 13-17, and 18+. Voting will end Fri. June 16, 2023. All entrants will have their work displayed in our Art For Air Gallery. The top three vote-getters in each age category will be awarded prizes of $25, $50, and $100. The top overall vote-getter will be…

Preview in new tab $500 Grand Prize Winner TEEN-11 Vallejo A Piece to a Peace Having a clean air means everything; a lush life full of freshness of oxygen, animals are coming back and under water life are clean since its a zero pollution. The reason why I put it in a puzzle form is that we as humans can only bring back the beauty of the earth if we help each other. CHILD-02 Vallejo Lake Mountain When I think of clear air I think of a lake and mountains and trees make oxygen CHILD-01 American Canyon Swirly Skies Clean air is something that feels…

Art for Air Contest – the Winners are PUBLIC VOTING FOR “ART FOR AIR” CONTEST HAD CONCLUDED AND THE 2021 WINNERS ARE HERE. VALLEJO, CALIF. (April 22, 2021) — The Vallejo Citizen Air Monitoring Network (VCAMN) congratulates Rhubie Rosales of Vallejo who is the winner of the $500 Grand Prize in the “Art for Air” contest. Fifty-five artists of all ages provided entries to show their love for clean air with art. The public then selected the winner through online voting. Entrants in fact came from all over the country, as far away as North Carolina and Illinois. The winning art by Ms. Rosales, who is…

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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

http://issues.org/32-2/citizen-engineers-at-the-fenceline/

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 the ground, leading to higher measured concentrations. Hopefully this will ease up a bit later this week. I have passed along the information that the AirNow site is listing “Fairfield” on the Current AQI and AQI Loop of the “NowCast” values (as in the screenshot below). However, even though the…

A new global alliance promoting the voluntary adoption of an independent on-road vehicle emissions test and rating system. http://www.allowair.org/

Urban particulate air pollution is a serious health issue. Trees within cities can remove fine particles from the atmosphere and consequently improve air quality and human health. Tree effects on PM2.5 concentrations and human health are modeled for 10 U.S. cities. The total amount of PM2.5 removed annually by trees varied from 4.7 tonnes in Syracuse to 64.5 tonnes in Atlanta, with annual values varying from $1.1 million in Syracuse to $60.1 million in New York City. Most of these values were from the effects of reducing human mortality. Mortality reductions were typically around 1 person yr-1 per city, but were as high as 7.6…

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see this link: https://cchealth.org/hazmat/accident-history.php

Details in http://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/Files/Planning%20and%20Research/CARE%20Program/Documents/ImpactCommunities_2_Methodology.ashx?la=en

In the US, exposure to very fine particulate matter known as PM2.5 is considered safe by the US Environmental Protection Agency’s national ambient air quality standards so long as a person breathes in an average of 12 micrograms per cubic meter of air (μg/m3) or less per day over the duration of a year. In the short term, the US considers it safe if PM2.5 levels don’t go over 35 μg/m3 within a day, so long as the yearly average comes out to 12 μg/m3 per day (in other words, a few days of higher PM2.5 here and there is acceptable, so long as there are only…

West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project (WOEIP)  http://www.woeip.org/ Coalition for Clean Air   http://www.ccair.org/ Family for Clean Air   http://www.familiesforcleanair.org/ Sunflower Alliance  https://www.sunflower-alliance.org/ Communities for a better environment   www.cbecal.org/ 350 Bay area  https://350bayarea.org/ Map Web Service: Real-time Air Quality Tile API http://aqicn.org/faq/2015-09-18/map-web-service-real-time-air-quality-tile-api/cn/

From International Journal of Molecular Sciences Abstract Air pollution of anthropogenic origin is largely from the combustion of biomass (e.g., wood), fossil fuels (e.g., cars and trucks), incinerators, landfills, agricultural activities and tobacco smoke. Air pollution is a complex mixture that varies in space and time, and contains hundreds of compounds including volatile organic compounds (e.g., benzene), metals, sulphur and nitrogen oxides, ozone and particulate matter (PM). PM0.1 (ultrafine particles (UFP)), those particles with a diameter less than 100 nm (includes nanoparticles (NP)) are considered especially dangerous to human health and may contribute significantly to the development of numerous respiratory and cardiovascular diseases such as…