This community-engaged scholarship project brings together CU Boulder’s Mechanical Engineering program with community members in Pascagoula, MS to both monitor air quality and understand its impacts on local residents. We will use community-based air quality monitoring to bolster personal stories of adverse industrial pollution impacts in the Cherokee Forest subdivision of Pascagoula, MS. As we collect air quality data in the community, residents will document health symptoms and perceived odors in a journal. We will then work with participants to investigate any links between relative pollution levels and health or odor impacts. Participants will use the information to create data-informed stories and presentations to share with local officials. We hope this project provides a blueprint for other communities to conduct air monitoring campaigns that lead to actionable, data-informed outcomes.

• Relationship-building visit

  Additional Info

  CU Boulder graduate student (Caroline Frischmon) conducts informational interviews with residents of the Cherokee Forest neighborhood in Pascagoula, MS.

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  Location

  outside colorado

  Dates

  7/21/2023 - 7/23/2023

  Public or Private

  Private Program (by request only or for a specific audience or group)

  Program Fee

  Not Applicable

• Air monitoring and documentation

  Additional Info

  Residents will document perceived odors and pollution-related symptoms while air quality monitors in the community record any pollution episodes

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  Location

  outside colorado

  Dates

  12/4/2023 - 2/5/2024

  Public or Private

  Private Program (by request only or for a specific audience or group)

  Program Fee

  Not Applicable