by Haley Lewis | May 27, 2020 | Clean Air Journal
JCDH Releases 2020 Ambient Air Monitoring Plan for Public Comment It’s that time of year again: the Jefferson County Department of Health has posted for public comment its 2020 Ambient Air Monitoring Plan. Comments are due June 17th at 4:30 PM. Like we have done for...
by Kirsten Bryant | Feb 7, 2019 | Clean Air Journal
Hoover High School Bio-Bucs: Testing the Air by Christian Lam, Maggie Khan and Andrew Gelderman First of all, what is the BioBucs? The Hoover High School BioBucs is the Hoover High School environmental science research competition team. The club was created with an...
by Dania Ashour | Mar 23, 2017 | Clean Air Journal
Once I was able to understand how to connect the AirBeam to my phone, and to input data into its open source map, AirCasting, I was finally able to test the pollution around Birmingham. To learn how to connect the AirBeam to your phone, and how to operate AirCasting,...
by Dania Ashour | Feb 28, 2017 | Clean Air Journal
[Editor’s Note: Be sure to click on the images to enlarge them, especially if you plan to try this at home.] Before I conducted my pollution study around the city of Birmingham, I needed to test the AirBeam itself. The AirBeam is a portable air monitor that is...
by Michael Hansen | Sep 14, 2015 | Clean Air Journal
If you’re anything like me, you look forward each week to the newest episode of Science Friday, a.k.a., “SciFri.” I listen to the show on Birmingham’s NPR affiliate, WBHM. Last week, Science Friday aired a particularly interesting segment for us at GASP. “Pedaling...
