MASSEV: a project for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) supported by national funding agencies of Chile, China, Norway and Switzerland.
MASSEV: Monitoring, Mapping and Modelling Air Quality for Sustainable Environments in Cities and Communities
MASSEV aims to address the SDG 3 Good health and well-being (SDG3.9.1), SDG11 Sustainable cities and communities (SDG11.6.2) and SDG 17 Partnership for the goals (SDG17.6.1) by (i) developing and deploying widely accessible air quality sensors, (ii) monitoring the urban air quality at street and building levels, (iii) modelling and evaluating citizen exposure, and (iv) assessing and mitigating the health risks. Case studies will be carried out in three cities (Qingdao, Jinan and San-tiago), by establishing extensive static and dynamic sensor networks. The project results will support evidence-based urban planning and contribute to the development of sustainable cities and communities.
The project will build on results of ongoing/recently finalised projects listed below:
- Impact Evaluation and Source Apportionment for PMs in Urban Street Environment
- The Identification and Evaluation of Key Impact Factors on the Multiple-Time-Resolution Particle Source Apportionment
- Characteristics, sources, transformation, and climate effect of particulate nitrated phenols
- external page PES CITI-SENSE
- external page Clean Air China Sino-Swiss Cooperation
- external page Emission quantification, transport modelling and risk evaluation of airborne antibiotic resistance genes
- external page Development of a real-time biosensing system of SARS-CoV-2 to improve healthcare workers safety during COVID 19
- external page Center for Sustainable Urban Development, Chile, Grants ANID/FONDAP 15110020 and 1522A0002
An example of air quality sensor placement is shown in the picture on the side. It's a low-cost sensor stationed on the balcony of an elementary school in downtown Santiago, overlooking a busy street.
Consortium Lead:
- Prof. Dr. Jing Wang, ETH Zurich/Empa (Switzerland)
Co-leads:
- Dr. Hai-Ying Liu, NILU (The Climate and Environmental Research Institute NILU), Norway
- Prof. Dr. Héctor Jorquera González, PUC (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), Chile
- Prof. Dr. Xinfeng Wang, SDU (Shandong University), China
Cooperation partner:
- Prof. Jian Gao, CRAES (Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences), China