Atlanta project measures air pollution around local schools

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Stone Mountain Middle School 8th graders Emnet Michael (left) and Elizabeth Bui applied for their school to participate in the air monitoring program. (Molly Samuel/WABE)

Emory University scientists are working with metro Atlanta middle and high schoolers to help students and their communities learn more about the air they breathe, and whether it’s polluted.

It’s a collaboration between university scientists and their college students, and younger students and their teachers, to help fill in gaps in air quality data in Georgia. 

Earlier this year, Eri Saikawa, an environmental studies professor at Emory, visited Stone Mountain Middle School in Tucker to mount an air quality sensor on the school with help from Emory research scientist, and her husband, Alexander Avramov.