Panel: Monitoring for environmental equity: A hyperlocal air quality network in Chicago

Опубликовано 25 января 2022, 1:29

Moderator: Madeleine Daepp, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond
Speakers:
Charlie Catlett, Senior Research Scientist, Discover Partners Institute & Array of Things
Meera Raja, Senior Manager, City of Tech Collaborative
Raed Mansour, Director of Innovation, Chicago Department of Public Health
Scott Counts, Sr. Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research Redmond
Tiffany Werner, Community Science Organizer, Environmental Law & Policy Center

Air pollution is an invisible health hazard, responsible for an estimated 10 million premature deaths annually. Pollution is also unequally distributed within cities, producing inequitable exposures that are a key environmental justice concern. This panel convenes government, academic, civic tech, and community science leaders from Chicago to discuss the challenges and opportunities of monitoring environmental exposures at the neighborhood scale.

The participants have recently collaborated with the Urban Innovation team at Microsoft Research to deploy the largest real-time, hyperlocal air quality sensing network in a North American city. The panel will focus on key challenges related to producing rigorous measurement, the importance of supporting community-driven innovation, and how to translate novel sensing data into knowledge and ultimately into action.

Learn more about the 2021 Microsoft Research Summit: Aka.ms/researchsummit