Other citizen science approaches for air monitoring

Air samplers and other approaches to report the impact of FF industries in air quality.

An explicative video where users can take more ideas for their citizen science campaigns in two opposite cases. In the case where target pollutants of FF industries are more difficult to detect only with commercial or DIYDo It Yourself More sensors and the budget is higher, or in the other site, when communities need more low-cost methods to report the impact of FF industry.

Air biomonitoring

Biomonitoring offers another engaging way to assess air while learning about local biodiversity. Biomonitoring requires tracking the occurrence and health of certain organisms that respond to pollution. Certain plant species and lichens are the most often employed to detect bad air. The Citizen Sense initiative developed a “Phyto-sensor toolkit” with resources and guidelines to detect air pollution using plants – for example, numerous species are sensitive to ozone: in the US, there is a whole network of “Ozone Gardens”. Likewise, the citizen science project VOCE in Marseille involved citizens in air quality assessments by observing the biodiversity of lichens and the growth and flowering of Petunia plants.