Air high quality expertise agency EarthSense says its Zephyr® air high quality displays might be deployed by Cranfield College at numerous websites throughout Bedford, Luton and Milton Keynes, as a part of a wider £2.5 million DEFRAG challenge.
The Defragmenting the fragmented city panorama (DEFRAG) challenge is funded by the Pure Atmosphere Analysis Council (NERC) and runs till November 2026. Scientists, together with specialists from Cranfield College, are finding out inexperienced areas, blue areas and concrete infrastructures and the way these fragmented elements interlink and impression on air high quality, biodiversity and water administration. DEFRAG might be figuring out limitations to a greener infrastructure and delivering new information on how city planning impacts on biodiversity. The knowledge might be used to design more healthy and extra resilient cities and cities sooner or later.
Cranfield College will set up the Zephyr® air high quality displays throughout numerous greenspaces in Bedford, Milton Keynes and Luton which have close by sources of air pollution from roads. The displays will measure pollution together with NO, NO2, PM1, PM2.5, PM10, CO and CO2 over a 6-12 month interval to assist researchers higher perceive the impression of inexperienced infrastructure on air high quality.
Dr Zaheer Nasar, Reader in Atmospheric Aerosols at Cranfield College stated: “We’ve got deployed Zephyrs® from EarthSense for earlier air high quality initiatives so that they have been the apparent selection after we have been on the lookout for displays for air high quality measurements as part of the DEFRAG challenge. These displays will measure the concentrations of air pollution over time and throughout totally different seasons and the information collected will assist us perceive how numerous varieties of inexperienced areas in city areas have an effect on and doubtlessly cut back air air pollution.”
Professor Ronald Corstanje, Professor of Knowledge Sciences and Head of the Cranfield Atmosphere Centre at Cranfield College stated: “The findings from DEFRAG might be helpful in informing city planning and coverage, making certain that the methods through which we construct our cities sooner or later are wholesome and resilient.”
Greg Lewis, Chief Gross sales and Advertising and marketing Officer at EarthSense, added: “We’re delighted that we will proceed our relationship with Cranfield College by delivering Zephyr® displays that may help the air high quality monitoring for the DEFRAG challenge. The challenge guarantees to be a serious step ahead in establishing a larger understanding of the mechanisms by way of which inexperienced areas impression the air high quality within the space.”
Along with Cranfield College, different companions for the DEFRAG challenge embrace the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Sheffield College, The Alan Turing Institute and stakeholders throughout Bedford, Luton and Milton Keynes.
