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Welcome to the GLOBE Ireland Air Quality Campaign

 

The GLOBE Ireland Air Quality Campaign is a citizen-science campaign to assess traffic-related air pollution at schools. This is an educational project designed to raise awareness about air pollution, engage students in the scientific process, promote action around clean air and showcase the potential of citizen science to gather unique datasets and insights into our environment. There have been nine campaigns since 2019, with over 800 teachers registering to participate.

The campaign is a six-to-eight week inquiry-based learning project where students are encouraged to participate in the scientific process of observing the environment, asking questions, developing a hypothesis, planning an investigation, gathering data, analyzing and interpreting data and communicating the scientific results. Students are encouraged to engage with GLOBE Atmosphere protocols to support their air pollution investigation.

Each school that registers to participate in a GLOBE Ireland Air Quality campaign will receive monitoring tubes to measure nitrogen dioxide outside at their school.  The tubes are positioned at two locations at each school: one near a main road, one at a car park/drop off location and one in a relatively sheltered area. The tubes are left up for a four-week period.

Email globe@eeu.antaisce.org for more information.

You can view results from the September 2023 Air Quality Campaign by clicking here: Air Quality Map

You can view student projects be clicking here: GLOBE Ireland Student Projects and here GLOBE Ireland Air Quality Projects 2023/24

Registration for the 2024/25 Air Quality Campaign will begin in August/September 2024

 

The following are some resources that campaign participants may find useful:

 

 

For more information, watch this short introductory video to the Air Quality Campaign.

 

 

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