The California Community Air Project

The Community Air Project is a multi-campus and community partner research project with collaborators at UC Davis (PI Clare Cannon), UC Irvine (co-PI Mike Méndez), UC San Diego (co-PI Camila Alvarez), and the UC Davis Air Quality Research Center (co-PI Tony Wexler). The goal of this project is to collaborate with communities to develop and deploy novel, low-cost air quality monitors to measure the two major kinds of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), metallic compounds (MC) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in real time. These HAPs have been linked to a range of adverse health outcomes. Our approach is a community engaged one in which our community partners serve as collaborators throughout the research process from conceptualization, data collection through dissemination of findings. Finally, a novel contribution of this project is the use of these new instruments in communities with high environmental injustice across California. 

This research is funded by a Multi-Camus Research Programs and Initiatives grant from the University of California Office of the President.

Community Partners

Throughout the research, we partner with community based organizations to address their concerns around air pollution. Below is a list of our community partners for this project,

• United Latinos (South Sacramento)
• Rise South City (San Bruno)
• Citizen Air Monitoring Network (Vallejo)