{"id":3551,"date":"2016-10-06T10:23:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T14:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/?p=3551"},"modified":"2016-10-06T10:32:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T14:32:06","slug":"air-monitoring-in-baltimore-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/?p=3551","title":{"rendered":"Air Monitoring in Baltimore, Anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anyone up for a grant application?<\/p>\n

This could provide needed information on air quality in Baltimore City.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aug 30, 2016
\nEPA Offers up to $80,000 to Communities to Develop Air Sensor Data Best Practices<\/p>\n

EPA Connect<\/p>\n

By Ann Dunkin, Chief Information Officer<\/p>\n

SMART CITIES AIR CHALLENGE INFORMATION<\/p>\n

Application Deadline: October 28, 2016
\nAnnouncement of Winners: Around December 1, 2016
\nInitial award: Up to $40,000 each to two communities to deploy air sensors, share data with the public, and develop data management best practices from sensors
\nAdditional funding: Up to $10,000 each to the winning communities in 2017 based on their accomplishments and collaboration.<\/p>\n

To learn more, visit the Smart City Air Challenge<\/a> website.<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/p>\n

I came to the EPA with a firm belief that data can make a difference in environmental protection. Since I\u2019ve been here I\u2019ve found that communities are leading the way by using data to understand local conditions and operate efficiently. That\u2019s why I\u2019m excited to announce EPA\u2019s Smart City Air Challenge.<\/p>\n

This new challenge encourages communities to install hundreds of air quality sensors and manage the resulting data. EPA is offering two communities up to $40,000 each to work with their residents to crowd source air quality data and share it with the public online. The projects will give individuals a role in collecting the data and understanding how environmental conditions affect their health and their community.<\/p>\n

Air quality sensors are becoming less expensive and people are beginning to use them to measure pollution levels in their neighborhoods and homes. They\u2019re developing rapidly, but most sensors aren\u2019t ready for regulatory use. However, by networking these devices, communities can better understand what is happening at the local level. Communities will figure out where to place the sensors and how to maintain the devices. It\u2019s up to each community to decide what pollutants they want to measure.<\/p>\n

The prize funds serve as seed money, so communities will need to partner with other parties, such as sensor manufacturers, data management companies and universities. These partners can provide resources and expertise in topics where communities lack experience. In doing so, communities will learn how to use data analytics, which can be applied to other aspects of community life.<\/p>\n

What does EPA get out of this? We\u2019ll learn how communities collect, store and manage large amounts of data. We\u2019ll also get a better understanding of the quality of data communities collect using sensors for non-regulatory purposes. We\u2019ll see how communities transfer data from sensors to databases and visualize the results. Finally, the sensors will produce as much as 150 gigabytes of open data a year \u2014data anyone can use.<\/p>\n

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy often says communities are \u201cincubators for innovation.\u201d We\u2019re hoping the challenge will inspire communities to come up with innovative approaches for managing data so their residents and other communities can benefit. Show us how it\u2019s done.<\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: The views expressed here are intended to explain EPA policy. They do not change anyone’s rights or obligations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

grant opportunity to fund air monitoring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3555,"href":"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions\/3555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}