April 2020
IAQM Webinar: Has Coronavirus affected local air quality?
There is widespread reporting of improvements in ambient air quality as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, but much of the evidence has focused on direct comparisons between air quality measurements made before and after social and travel restrictions were in place. Such comparisons can often be misleading as the social and travel restrictions are not the only factors affecting measured concentrations of air pollutants.Ambient concentrations can change significantly over short periods of time simply because of changes to the…
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IAQM Webinar: Environment Bill – A new framework of environmental governance
This webinar will provide an overview of the new governance framework and key policy initiatives being introduced through the Environment Bill, a landmark piece of legislation for managing the environment as the UK leaves the EU. Our speakers will explore the role of the new Office for Environmental Protection, the application of Environmental Principles in policymaking, and the process for setting legally binding environmental targets. It will also highlight key aspects of the Bill relating to Air Quality, Resource Efficiency…
Find out more »June 2020
Indoor Air Quality – Online conference
In response to Government advice to prevent the spread of Coronavirus this event will now be delivered online.This new one-day IAQM conference will be delivered online as a virtual conference. Throughout the day this conference will cover aspects of indoor air pollution including the ingress of outdoor air, exposure and health impacts, monitoring, the role of different ventilation strategies, emissions from building materials, and in-vehicle exposure. Relatively little is known but it is a rapidly growing field. Recent developments include new…
Find out more »July 2020
Webinar: Integrating Tools for Air Pollution Assessment (ITAPA) – Learning from the Dutch Approach
Susan Zappala, Joint Nature Conservation Committee and Mark Wilmot, Wing on behalf of the RIVM (Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment).Ecological assessment of air pollution is under increasing scrutiny due to caselaw challenge and UK policy developments. In the Netherlands, a similar challenge was tackled through their Integrated Approach to Nitrogen (PAS). With the advent of the Dutch Nitrogen Judgment, the PAS is being revised. However, the AERIUS suite of tools developed to implement the PAS remain useful. Through the ITAPA project,…
Find out more »September 2020
IAQM Webinar: Measuring air pollution with low-cost small sensors: Challenges and opportunities
Small sensors are increasingly being used to measure gases and particles in the atmosphere, as part of academic research and in citizen science projects. Their low cost, portability and low power requirements bring new measurement possibilities, for example to improve the spatial representation in air quality monitoring networks. However, to deliver quantitative observations requires that sensor performances should be well-understood and characterised. Furthermore, sensor behaviour depends on the environment of application. Tjarda Roberts, through research, has deployed small sensors at volcanoes…
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