Duke Environmental Field Methods

Water sampling crew

Good Afternoon!

The team has been very busy over the past few weeks gathering last minute data, cleaning up data from before, and finding ways to show them graphically in the most effective manner. At the presentation hosted yesterday, the team was able to display findings for all three of our projects.

Below I have attached a graph that the "Air Quality & Respiratory Health" team has created. This section of the project consisted of placing low-cost PM2.5 air quality sensors in two indoor and one outdoor location in both Kunshan and Durham. After running them for a total of three days we plotted the averages overall for the residential, dining, and outdoor sensors. As you can the PM2.5 in Kunshan is around 4 times greater than that of Durham in some areas! We then used this data to assist us with results from our test with lung stress due to ambient air pollution.

We will be posting the rest of our graphs and final presentations soon! Stay tuned :)

-Akylah Cox