Title : Environmental health monitoring, characterization and geoinformatics
Abstract:
As global air quality standards remain unmet, the necessity for low-cost air quality monitoring tools to measure different contaminants such as Radiometer PI 9501 to measure different types of radiation, Purple Air to measure Particulate Matter of different sizes, and others such as handheld Temptop to measure Particulate Matter, Formaldehydes and Volatile Organic Compounds is escalating in response to poor and unregulated air quality conditions in environmentally and socioeconomically disadvantaged communities worldwide. When operated and analyzed incorrectly, these tools lead us away from finding a solution to lowering air pollution levels. Instead of aiding the understanding of a community’s health and environmental standing, these resources cover unresolved issues in a “safety blanket.” Using various data sets gathered from multiple tools in combination with aircraft take-off and landing data, vehicle traffic counts, meteorological analysis, characterization assays including; air top 2", soil, tree cores, lichen, vegetables, geospatial analysis, and family health history surveys aided by in-vivo (hair, urine, blood, bone, deciduous teeth, adult teeth) samples, DNA sequencing, microbiome DNA sequencing and nuclear DNA sequencing analysis, we present a comprehensive study, providing quality data for environmentally impacted communities.
