ispex: measure fine dust with your smartphone - daan swart

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iSPEX: measure fine dust with your smartphone!

Daan Swart, RIVM, Netherlands

Air-Policy-Science Meeting, Dublin, April 14, 3013

Photo: Tjitske Sluis

health

health

Breathing fine dust takes

on average six months of

your life expectancy.

Economic impact:

4-40 G€.

source: RIVM, lung fund

health

economy

economy

In 2010 canceled flights

due to volcanic ash clouds

cost airline companies

more than a billion euros.

source: IATA

economy

climate

climate

source: IPCC

Fine dust forms the

largest uncertainty in the

climate problem.

climate

Measure fine dust with

your smartphone!

new science communication

new measurement

philosophy

iSpex Movie

2500 2000

1000

free distribution: 4500

total: 10,000

iSPEX registration is open

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iSPEX can be ordered at

www.longfonds.nl/ispex

at €2.50 a piece

EARLY APRIL: 6000+ SOLD

citizen science experiment

on a clear day

in May/June 2013

Results

direct feedback qualitative results in september quantitative results

iSPEX team

• NOVA – Netherlands Research School for Astronomy, University Leiden

• SRON – Netherlands Institute for Space Research

• KNMI – Royal Institute for Meteorology, Netherlands

• RIVM – National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Netherlands

www.iSPEX.nl

info@iSPEX.nl

@iSPEXnl