We are pleased to announce that again, alongside our colleagues at the University of Canterbury, we have been awarded a Smart Idea grant (Optimizing Next-Generation Climate Model Precipitation Projections for Improved Climate Resilience) from the Aotearoa New Zealand...
BLOG: Atmospheric Science
The North Shore fire – did you close your windows?
Last Thursday (24th April) the mobile phones of thousands of Aucklanders simultaneously throbbed and wailed as a civil defence emergency announcement was broadcast across the city. A huge and devastating fire had broken out at a recycling centre on the North Shore...
MBIE supports AQC to collaborate with German Climate Scientists
We are very happy to announce that the Air Quality Collective along with our colleagues at the University of Canterbury have been awarded $415,000 by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s Strategic Catalyst fund for a project called “Supporting...
Why is Particulate Matter so special?
Air pollution is one of those things, like weather and climate, that because it affects everyone we all have an opinion about it. This makes it an ideal area for "citizen" and "traditional" scientists to collaborate and work towards improving our lives. However, air...
How good is good enough?
Chasing the dream of accurate and reliable low cost sensors in air qualityFor quite a few years now, there are a number of projects around consumer level (as opposed to research grade) air quality sensors. (Air Quality Egg, Speck, Dustduino, Air Beam and our own...
Home heating: what’s the problem?
Using solid fuel Use of solid fuel, mostly wood but also coal, particularly in some South Island towns, is a major source of night-time airborne pollution in many places in New Zealand. On cold, still winter nights dispersion is poor and emissions from domestic...