The AirCasting platform empowers community-based organizations, educators, academics, regulators, city managers, and community scientists to map air pollution and organize for clean air.

Educators

Bringing AirBeam and AirCasting to your classroom is a proven way of sparking student interest in environmental science and driving civic engagement. Students gather, analyze, and share data with the larger AirCasting community, applying mapping technology to solve real-world environmental problems via community-oriented research projects.

Community Scientists

Our low (and no) cost technologies make the platform an attractive option for all community scientists. Whether you need data for a specific advocacy campaign, or just want to limit your personal pollution exposures, the AirBeam’s hyperlocal measurements can help you visualize what you’re breathing, add credibility to your cause, and guide better daily decisions.

Researchers

The credibility of your data is important and control of your data is paramount. The proven accuracy of the AirBeam’s hyperlocal measurements will enable you to create high-resolution pollution surfaces. Configure the AirBeam to feed data directly to your database or just beam data to the AirCasting platform, where it can easily be visualized, shared, and exported.

Activists & Non-profits

Enhancing quality of life in your community is essential and our platform, when in your hands, becomes a powerful tool for clean air advocacy. Whether you want to curtail local polluters or campaign for better quality of life, the AirBeam and AirCasting platform bring visibility to the quality of the air you and your community are breathing.

What Our Community
is Saying

University of Alabama at Birmingham

"Know what you are exposed to, it will literally save your life!"

- Ruzmyn Vilcassim

Piedmont Triad Regional Council

"AirBeams are a great way to show students of all ages what is in the air they are breathing in real time. It is an invaluable tool to provide education and outreach about air pollution sources and how small changes can make a big difference."

- Anna Leonard

University of Iowa

"AirBeam + AirCasting generates a lot of classroom excitement and good discussion when teaching 8th graders about air pollution."

- Charles Stanier

USC Environmental Health Centers

"The AirBeam is a low-cost and very accessible way to put hyperlocal air quality data in the hands of community members who need it the most, who are most affected by poor air quality, and who can use it as a starting point to understand personal exposures to air pollution."

- Wendy Gutschow

East Bay Academy for Young Scientists

"AirBeam is affordable, accurate, and easy to transport. Students love that they get to use scientific technology and can make sense of what it's saying."

- Colleen Sutherland

Queensbridge Tech Lab

"Being able to see how a truck passing by impacts our air inspires folks to advocate for themselves and their community - as well as sparking interest and curiosity into how these technologies work from a back-end perspective."

- Sadie Coughlin-Prego

The Chaplin School

"The AirBeam is an essential tool for citizen science and learning about air quality in our classroom."

- Anna Mello

University of Virginia

"The AirBeam is a critical tool for enabling communities to understand and advocate for change in their local environments."

- Andrew Mondschein

University of New South Wales

"AirCasting is an easy and interesting way to find out how the air quality around you is and use this data to discuss ways of improving your community."

- Henrique S. Benites

Cleanup North Brooklyn

"AirCasting puts air quality data collection in the hands of ordinary people and under-resourced organizations. Also, it has been a powerful experience for people impacted by poor air quality to measure air quality first hand."

- Jen Chantrtanapichate

York College, CUNY

"The AirBeam increases visibility of what's invisible."

- Dawn Roberts-Semple

Citizen Scientists

Sixth Street Community Center

When the opportunity arose to apply for an EPA Environmental Justice Problem Solving grant, Sixth Street Community Center saw a chance to tackle one of the neighborhood’s most pressing issues—air quality—in an area pocked with pollution sources, like the fossil fuel powered East River Power Station and the FDR Drive.
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Citizen Scientists

SciStarter

Libraries have always been community hubs—accessible, trusted, and deeply connected to the people they serve. SciStarter recognized that if people could borrow scientific tools like the AirBeam the same way they borrow books, it could remove one of the biggest obstacles to community participation in science.
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Citizen Scientists

CAPA Strategies

CAPA Strategies and the City of Bloomington, Indiana used AirBeams and temperature sensors to capture neighborhood-level pollution and heat data while also analyzing how climate change could affect future heat risks.
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Citizen Scientists

ConBici

ConBici, the National Coordinating Body for the Defense of Bicycles, and Clean Cities launched the Cycling with Clean Air initiative to answer a critical question: “What’s in the air that cyclists breathe”?
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Citizen Scientists

Groundwork Hudson Valley

Through workshops, educational materials, and grassroots campaigns, Groundwork Hudson Valley is breaking down a complex issue and demonstrating the power of community science to drive change.
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Citizen Scientists

UrbanBetter

Through the Cityzens for Clean Air Campaign, UrbanBetter organized youth voices to build awareness and advocacy about the issue of air pollution in African cities.
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Researchers

Claiborne Corridor Project

LSU Health New Orleans, with support from the US Environmental Protection Agency, is using the AirBeam to conduct research to better understand environmental hazards, exposures, and related health outcomes in the Claiborne Corridor. Their findings have been captured in the Claiborne Corridor Study.
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Citizen Scientists

Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA)

Community members were tired of breathing in toxic air while their governments failed to act...so GAIA members took matters into their own hands. The organization distributed AirBeams to volunteers near active incinerators, translating the data into local languages and pairing it with powerful visuals of pollution to tell a story that couldn’t be ignored.
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Researchers

USC Environmental Health Centers

The Community Engagement Program on Health and the Environment (CEPHE) at USC Environmental Health Centers (USCEHC) uses a variety of low-cost air quality instruments and data platforms, including the AirBeam + AirCasting platform, to run participatory air monitoring programs that engage community members around air quality issues where they live, work, and play.
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Citizen Scientists

Airparif

Founded in 1979, Airparif is a French non-profit organization vested by the Ministry of Environment to monitor air quality, forecast pollution episodes, educate the public on the environment, and assess the effectiveness of air pollution mitigation measures in the Paris metropolitan region.
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Researchers

Barry Commoner Center for Health & the Environment

The Barry Commoner Center for Health & the Environment (BCCHE) is an environmental and occupational health research institute at Queens College, City University of New York. The mission of the Center is to identify and rectify environmental and occupational threats to human health.
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Activists & Non-profits

CleanAIRE NC

CleanAIRE NC, a Charlotte-based non-profit, works to ensure cleaner air quality for all North Carolinians through education and advocacy and by working with their partners to reduce sources of pollution. For the past two years, CleanAIRE NC has been distributing mobile and stationary air quality instruments and providing hands-on training to Charlotte residents as part of their AirKeepers program.
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Activists & Non-profits

Environmental Law & Policy Center

Chicago residents are hospitalized for asthma at twice the national average. Making matters worse, the rate of asthma hospitalizations is even higher in many of Chicago’s predominately working-class African-American and Latinx neighborhoods.
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Educators

Queensbridge Tech Lab

The Queensbridge Tech Lab (QTL) is a branch of the Queens Public Library located in the Queensbridge Houses, the largest public housing development in North America. QTL offers workshops on and open access to a variety of digital and analog tools, from 3D printing and graphic design to sewing and robotics.
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