Webinar Series: Community Air Monitoring Fundamentals
Logistics
Webinar Dates |
All webinars are 1:00-3:00 PM ET:
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Event Type | Zoom Webinar |
Registration Cost | FREE |
Community Air Monitoring Background
Community air quality monitoring consists of local efforts to measure and understand what is in the air a community breathes in. This type of monitoring is often conducted using air sensors or other instruments by community groups or members.
Training Overview
The Community Air Monitoring Fundamentals Webinar Series consists of five sessions that cover:
- Fundamental information on air quality concepts
- How air quality and air monitoring are regulated
- An overview of air quality measurement devices and important concepts for making measurements
- The steps to building an effective air quality monitoring project
- Developing air monitoring objectives
- Managing data
- Selecting equipment
- Creating a Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP)
- Siting a monitoring device
- Installing and operating measurement devices
- Conducting data analysis
- Communicating air monitoring results
Who should attend these webinars?
This training is for anyone interested in understanding the basics of community air quality monitoring. It is geared toward non-experts that work with federal partners and state, local, and Tribal air agencies, in addition to community groups, NGOs, and others directly involved in developing air quality monitoring projects. This includes recipients of recent EPA air monitoring grants (e.g., ARP Enhanced Air Quality Monitoring for Communities).
Agenda and Registration
- The training series targets various levels of conducting community air monitoring, so each session has a different registration.
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EPA will post the webinar slides 1-2 days after each webinar concludes, but the recordings will not be available for several weeks while EPA ensures that they accessible for all members of the public (i.e., Section 508 compliant).
Date |
Topic |
Additional Information |
Webinar Materials |
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April 3, 2024 |
Webinar #1: |
Air quality, sources of air quality, emissions, important pollutants, life cycle of pollution, health effects, air quality regulations, air monitoring regulations |
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April 4, 2024 |
Webinar #2: |
What is air monitoring, measurement devices, important concepts for making measurements, what to do with measurement data |
Presentation Slides |
April 10, 2024 |
Webinar #3: |
Developing a monitoring objective, setting up data management |
Presentation Slides |
April 17, 2024 |
Webinar #4: |
Selecting air monitoring equipment, planning and developing a QAPP, determining sites for monitors, reviewing the monitoring plan |
Presentation Slides |
April 24, 2024 |
Webinar #5: |
Installing and operating air monitoring devices, quality assurance and quality control measures, data analysis resources and types, communicating air monitoring results |
Presentation Slides |
Contact
- Note: EPA will post the webinar slides 1-2 days after each webinar concludes, but the recordings will not be available for several weeks while EPA ensures that they accessible for all members of the public (i.e., Section 508 compliant).
- Please contact us with questions.