CAMS-Net and AfriqAir General Meeting & Air Quality Conference

Overview The Westervelt Group at Columbia organized and attended the CAMS-Net + AfriqAir annual meeting from March 7-10 this year!  Spearheaded by Professor Westervelt, with help from Albert Presto (CMU), R Subramanian (QEERI), and Mike Giordano (AfriqAir), the conference served as the general meeting for CAMS-Net and AfriqAir. CAMS-Net (an NSF funded project) strives to […]

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CAMS-Net meeting at ASIC

The CAMS-Net project held its first in-person meeting on May 10, 2022 in Pasadena, California as a side meeting of the Air Sensors International Conference. About 20 project members representing various networks attended. CAMS-Net also sponsored 3 oral sessions at ASIC throughout the rest of the week. These were very well received and well attended, […]

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New collaborative paper by several CAMS-Net member networks!

A new Westervelt group paper led by PhD student Garima Raheja was published recently in ACS Earth and Space Chemistry. Raheja analyzed ~2 years of calibrated low cost sensor in Lomé, Togo. To our knowledge this is the first ambient air quality profile in Togo. Co-authors included scientists and students from the Université de Lomé […]

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CAMS-Net symposium at ASIC

We will have a special symposium at the Air Sensors International Conference in Pasadena, California, USA from May 10-13, 2022. CAMS-Net public sessions will take place on May 11-13 concurrent with ASIC and May 10 will be an internal meeting for current member networks. We have some travel funding available to support the in-person participation […]

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Seed funding opportunity for member networks

The Clean Air Monitoring and Solutions Network (CAMS-Net) is an international network of networks that provides a forum for exchange of knowledge, ideas, and data among scientists, decision-makers, citizen groups, the private sector, and other stakeholders towards the goal of improved usage and application of low-cost sensor (LCS) data for air quality. Details about CAMS-Net […]

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Announcing CAMS-Net “Meet the Networks” series

As part of our efforts to increase collaboration and accelerate novel research, we are announcing a “Meet the Networks” biweekly informal seminar series. At each meeting, two of our networks will give a short overview of their work and interests, followed by substantial time for open discussion and questions. The meetings will be held remotely […]

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New low cost sensor deployments in Congo

As part of a new collaboration accelerated by CAMS-Net, including partner networks Clarity Movement, Columbia University, Marien Ngouabi University (Brazzaville, Congo), USAID, and the US State Department, new PM2.5 monitors were deployed in two locations in Brazzaville, Congo!

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New paper on air quality in Kinshasa with low cost sensors published in AAQR!

A new paper led by Westervelt group undergraduate Celeste McFarlane titled “First Measurements of Ambient PM2.5 in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo and Brazzaville, Republic of Congo Using Field-calibrated Low-cost Sensors” has been published in AAQR! This was a collaboration between several CAMS-Net partner networks, including Université Marien Ngouabi in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo and Ecole […]

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Introducing CAMS-Net

The Clean Air Monitoring and Solutions Network, or CAMS-Net, is a National Science Foundation-funded project aimed at creating an international “network of networks” that will facilitate the exchange of knowledge, ideas, and data in order to improve the usage and application of low-cost sensor air quality data.  The project is being led by the Columbia University […]

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