Many phone apps offer general but nonspecific information about airborne particles. To help increase public safety amidst LA fire season, scientists are making new, real-time, advanced air pollutant measurements available online for free to the public. The Atmospheric Science and Measurement Network, or ASCENT project, is a state-of-the-art air quality monitoring network of 12 sites...
Several Southern California communities, including Riverside, are being hit with smoke from the huge Line Fire in the San Bernardino Mountains, creating what the Environmental Protection Agency classifies as “very unhealthy” air quality. UC Riverside experts on environmental pollution describe what we’re breathing, how long the airborne particles are likely to stick around, and what...
Nobody is currently taking continuous, routine measurements of the particles suspended in America’s air, called aerosols. That is set to change as a new, nationwide monitoring network launches with a site in Riverside, California. Read More
