{"id":360,"date":"2013-12-20T19:46:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T02:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/superfund\/?p=360"},"modified":"2013-12-21T07:46:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T14:46:34","slug":"making-models-personal-air-quality-smartphones-human-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/superfund\/2013\/12\/20\/making-models-personal-air-quality-smartphones-human-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Models Personal &#8211; Air Quality, Smartphones, and Human Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently the EPA collaborated with the NIEHS\u00a0 Superfund Research Program (SRP) for the Risk eLearning webinar three-part series on\u00a0 &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.clu-in.org\/conf\/tio\/gis1_121313\/\" target=\"_blank\">Using GIS Tools to Analyze, Compute, and Predict Pollution<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_228\" class=\"wp-caption thumbnail alignright\" style=\"width: 154px;\">\n    <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/superfund\/files\/2013\/10\/epost_117_larkin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-228\" alt=\"Andy Larkin\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/superfund\/files\/2013\/10\/epost_117_larkin.jpg\" width=\"154\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a>\n    <figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andy Larkin<\/figcaption>\n    <\/figure>\n<p>This final session focused on Community Engagement\u00a0 and included a presentation by one of our trainees, Andy Larkin, entitled <em>Making models personal: increasing the impact of atmospheric pollutant models by predicting pollutant levels at Android and iPhone locations<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Over 110 people participated on the webinar. Andy provided an outstanding overview of the mobile app he developed and included future directions and needs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Presenting as part of this Risk eLearning Series let us demonstrate how GIS chips in smartphones could be used to provide personalized information about air quality. <em>~Andy Larkin<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clu-in.org\/conf\/tio\/gis1_121313\/\">View webinar archive online<\/a><\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nFor presentation abstracts and the first two GIS webinars, go to the <a title=\"SRP Risk eLearning webinar\" href=\"http:\/\/www.niehs.nih.gov\/research\/supported\/dert\/programs\/srp\/events\/riskelearning\/gis\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">SRP Risk eLearning webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key points from Larkin&#8217;s presentation<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Smartphones are one of the newest methods available for collecting location-based information.\u00a0There are currently more than one billion active smartphone users in the world (source: CBSNews.com).<\/li>\n<li>Smartphones can identify a person\u2019s location and pollutant models can predict pollution levels at a given location.\u00a0 By linking smartphones with pollutant models, it is hypothesized that multiple pollutants can be predicted at smartphone locations.\u00a0 Geographical constraints are based on the constraint of the underlying pollutant models, and can conceivably cover the extent of the entire world.<\/li>\n<li>Sampling and retaining locations at regular intervals can provide a well documented past of predicted pollutant levels at smartphone locations.\u00a0 Input from the smartphone user about intended future locations can potentially be used to predict pollutant levels at future locations.<\/li>\n<li>Sampling data acquired from a group representative of the population can be used to make inferences about spatial and temporal trends regarding pollution level conditions for the entire population<\/li>\n<li>To test the proof of principle that smartphones can be linked with environmental maps, Larkin created PM2.5, PM10, and ozone hourly forecast maps for the state of Oregon.\u00a0 Maps forecast predicted exposure levels at air monitoring stations using Seasonal Integrated Moving Average (SIMA) time series models.\u00a0 Forecasts at air monitoring stations are then interpolated to cover the entire state using universal Kriging for PM2.5 and PM10, and inverse distance weighing for ozone.\u00a0 These modeling methods were chosen because they can be validated and evaluated using prediction errors.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>The future in personal monitoring is combining complementary technologies.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_362\" class=\"wp-caption thumbnail alignleft\" style=\"width: 240px;\">\n    <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/superfund\/files\/2013\/12\/Slide07.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-362 \" alt=\"Step 1: The smartphone determines its location and current time, and sends the information to a cloud storage database as a .csv file \" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/superfund\/files\/2013\/12\/Slide07-300x225.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1666\/files\/2013\/12\/Slide07-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1666\/files\/2013\/12\/Slide07.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>\n    <figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Step 1: The smartphone determines its location and current time, and sends the information to a cloud storage database as a .csv file<\/figcaption>\n    <\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_365\" class=\"wp-caption thumbnail alignleft\" style=\"width: 240px;\">\n    <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/superfund\/files\/2013\/12\/Slide08.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-365 \" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/superfund\/files\/2013\/12\/Slide08-300x225.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1666\/files\/2013\/12\/Slide08-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1666\/files\/2013\/12\/Slide08.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>\n    <figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Step 2: After location values are sent to the cloud storage database, the predicted pollutant concentrations for all models within the database are determined for the given latitude and longitude coordinates<\/figcaption>\n    <\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_366\" class=\"wp-caption thumbnail alignleft\" style=\"width: 240px;\">\n    <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/superfund\/files\/2013\/12\/Slide10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-366 \" alt=\"Slide10\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/superfund\/files\/2013\/12\/Slide10-300x225.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1666\/files\/2013\/12\/Slide10-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1666\/files\/2013\/12\/Slide10.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>\n    <figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Step 3: Predicted pollutant values and the original information are then returned to the smartphone in a .csv file format<\/figcaption>\n    <\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently the EPA collaborated with the NIEHS\u00a0 Superfund Research Program (SRP) for the Risk eLearning webinar three-part series on\u00a0 &#8220;Using GIS Tools to Analyze, Compute, and Predict Pollution&#8220;. This final session focused on Community Engagement\u00a0 and included a presentation by one of our trainees, Andy Larkin, entitled Making models personal: increasing the impact of atmospheric&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/superfund\/2013\/12\/20\/making-models-personal-air-quality-smartphones-human-health\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197060,502,197061,5614,217],"tags":[182678,182667,182659,69996,97046],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-engagement","category-events","category-research-translation","category-science-communication","category-training","tag-air-quality","tag-mobile-app-2","tag-project-1","tag-training-2","tag-webinar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/superfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/superfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/superfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/superfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/superfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/superfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/superfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/superfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/superfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/superfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}