The OpenAQ Community Ambassador Program: Fight Air Inequality in Your Community and Beyond The OpenAQ Community Ambassador Program supports emerging air quality leaders in low- and middle-income countries in developing skills to fight air inequality (the unequal access to clean air). Over 10 months, Ambassadors are provided with interdisciplinary training…

Use our new interactive web app to browse data on the OpenAQ platform and check out our new website! OpenAQ is excited to announce the beta launch of our new OpenAQ Explorer web application, along with the launch of our redesigned website. …

How Our Organization Came To Be An atmospheric scientist’s role at the US State Department in late 2014 led to the formation of the world’s first open-source database of air quality monitoring data. Christa Hasenkopf was working to compile data on air quality at embassies where there were concerns that…

New report by OpenAQ offers insights into monitoring of air quality around the world and how the data are shared Governments have a responsibility to address air pollution — a leading health concern across the entire world that disproportionately harms residents of low- and middle-income countries. …

Children are particularly susceptible to air pollution’s insidious effects. They breathe more rapidly than adults, taking in more polluted air. Due to having smaller bodies, they are proportionally exposed at higher levels. Their developing organs are more vulnerable to pollution. And due to their height, they are face level with…

An OpenAQ Use Case How do we help the public truly understand the severity of air pollution given that it’s largely an invisible threat? One creative way is Sh**t! I Smoke, a mobile app that compares air pollution to cigarette smoking. Here’s the story of how this app came to…

An Open AQ Impact Story Ray Koçi is the program director of Qendra Marrëdhënie (QM), which translates to Relationship Center in English. QM is a nonprofit group focused on urban research and action in Tirana, Albania. They examine neighborhood planning through the lens of building safe and healthy spaces for…

Harmonized air quality measurements aid researchers Congratulations to the Paul Crutzen Publication Awardee for 2021 in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP), “Global impact of COVID-19 restrictions on the surface concentrations of nitrogen dioxide and ozone” written by Christoph A. Keller, Mathew J. Evans, K. Emma Knowland, Christa A…

We are thrilled to welcome Gabriel Fosse as the newest member of our team. As our Data Analyst and Developer, Gabe will support the development and maintenance of our air quality database. As a data scientist and IoT developer, Gabe brings over 10 years of experience across the public and…