Event
Sensing the City with Dr. Alistair Boxall (University of York)!
Tuesday, January 26, 2016 17:00to18:30
McConnell Engineering Building
Room 204, 3480 rue University, Montreal, QC, H3A 0E9, CA
Price:
FREE, No registration is required but seating is limited
Overview
Poor air and water quality adversely affects human health and environmental monitoring is now carried out in cities across the world in order to improve the health of populations and to meet regulatory requirements. However, our current knowledge of the air and water quality where we live, work and play, is limited due to the fact that existing monitoring technologies are often large and expensive to operate or highly labour-intensive. New methods such as lab-on-a-chip technologies, wireless sensor networks and robotics offer the potential to generate real-time and extremely local, even personal, environmental exposure date. In the future, these technologies could become the platform which will drive our understanding of environmental quality and its impact on health. In this presentation, Alistair Boxall聽will provide an overview of work being done at York to develop novel approaches to detect and monitor pollutants in city environments. He聽will describe the YorkSense project which is instrumenting the city of York with a variety of new technologies in order to generate an unprecedented dataset on environmental quality in the city from 2015-2016.
Alistair Boxall
Alistair Boxall is Professor in Environmental Science in the Environment Department at the University of York. Alistair鈥檚 research focuses on understanding emerging and future ecological and health risks posed by chemical contaminants in the natural environment. Alistair was previously a member of the Defra Advisory Committee on Hazardous and Chair of the Pharmaceutical Advisory Group of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.
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