Community Air Monitoring Fundamentals
As you might know, we here at TD Enviro are big fans of community air quality monitoring. When the EPA came knocking and asked if we would help create a webinar series that went over (almost) everything you might need to consider when creating an air quality monitoring network, we were thrilled to be a part of it! The end result: A five-part Community Air Monitoring Fundamentals training!
The webinar series covers a lot, and included guest speakers and virtual engagement: polls, quizzes, and Q&A.
Webinars one and two ensure viewers are all on the same page. The first webinar starts out with an introduction to air quality concepts and regulations, leading into a discussion about air monitoring and understanding what air measurements mean in webinar two.
Webinar three, four, and five dig into the steps needed to design your own community air quality monitoring network.
Webinar three walks you through developing an air monitoring objective, or why you want to monitor, and how to set up data management for the duration of the project (you can also check out some more details in the Data Management Guide we also worked on with the EPA).
Webinar four helps you determine what type of air monitoring equipment might be right for your project, how to develop a QAPP, and how and where to site your air monitors.
Finishing off, webinar five gets into installation and operation of your air monitoring devices and what quality assurance and quality control measures you will need to take along the way. It also touches on data analysis resources and kinds of analysis that may be helpful, and more generally how to go about communicating air monitoring results.
All five webinar recordings and their associated slides are available online here. TD Enviro is also here to help, and we support groups working on community air monitoring projects at any point in this process, be it right up front to establish goals and objectives, or toward the end when your team has lots of data but might not be sure what to do with it.
Contact us if you have any questions!
