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Science on Tap is a monthly science café that features a brief, informal presentation by a scientist or other expert followed by lively conversation.
April 2010 - Gwen Ottinger, Program Researcher, Center for Contemporary History and Policy, Chemical Heritage Foundation
“What’s in Your Air? Low-tech Tools for Finding Out”
Chemicals released from motor vehicles, power plants, and industrial facilities can have a negative effect on the quality of the air in residential communities. Just how big is the effect? Finding out is a challenge--but several Delaware Valley communities are tackling it with the help of innovative, low-tech monitors. Ottinger will talk about the monitors and their potential for evaluating and improving air quality in local communities.
Gwen Ottinger holds a Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley. Since 2001, she has conducted research on the use of science in environmental justice activism, with particular interest in how community groups use air monitoring technology in grassroots campaigns.
Presented by Chemical Heritage Foundation.
More information on the Science on Tap series
Science on Tap is sponsored by a consortium of five Philadelphia institutions: the Academy of Natural Sciences, the American Philosophical Society Museum, the Chemical Heritage Foundation, the Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and the Wagner Free Institute of Science.
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