SUPPORT
Community Air Monitoring
For families living in the shadow of the Santa Susana Field Lab, one of California’s most toxic superfund sites, clean air cannot be taken for granted. We’re building a community-driven air monitoring system to uncover the pollution that’s being overlooked. Your support empowers parents to protect their children and their neighborhoods.
Your tax-deductible donation will go towards high-powered air monitors, data collection, analysis, and a public portal for residents to access the real-time data.
ABOUT
PArtnering with experts
Dr. Nicholas Spada of University California, Davis, has offered to work with our communities surrounding the Santa Susana Field Lab to provide us with advanced air quality monitoring collection and analysis. Dr. Spada has helped other communities win against polluters, such as the Citizen Air Monitoring Network in Vallejo, CA.
Dr. Nicholas Spada utilizes nuclear methods for characterizing aerosols as a function of size and time to better understand their impact on human health and the global environment. Since 2004, he has worked with the DELTA Group of UC Davis to develop and implement DRUM sampling and analysis technologies, utilizing synchrotron facilities at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Stanford’s linear accelerator facility. These techniques are applied to local, environmental justice cases; regional networks to determine persistence of ultrafine metals; and over a decade of measurements at the Greenland Summit Station to identify long-transport contributions to the Arctic environment.
Photo by Nina Dietz of Dr. Nicholas Spada at the Crocker Nuclear Laboratory, University California, Davis.
Host
Become a Citizen Scientist
For the first phase of the Air Monitoring Network, we will prioritize areas highlighted in yellow on the map. If you live in one of the priority areas we’d be grateful if you’d host a monitor on your property. Monitors will need access to your electricity and WiFi to work. Data collected at your home would be public, but your address and name would remain anonymous.
Air monitors will be provided to hosts within the priority areas at no cost.
DATA
coming soon
Click on the map to learn about the air quality in your area and if the Santa Susana Field Lab is putting your community’s health at risk through toxic air pollution.
LEARN
EDU Resources
The resources have been recommended by Dr. Spada as accurate and easy to understand guides to start learning about air quality.
