Data

Above: Flushing Bay, Queens, 2020. Testing air for possible Covid19 contamination from sewage-infected waterways.

Community Data Description

 Public Data Access Links

Community Monitoring Timeframe

Regional Air quality (Live)

JustAir Platform for Hudson Valley Community Air Network (QuantAQ’s) Regional Air Quality Stations (Red Hook, Kingston, Poughkeepsie, Newburgh)
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Kingston: January 2020 – Present

Poughkeepsie: January 2024 – Present

Newburgh: June 2024 – Present

Neighborhood Air Quality (Live)

A collection of community scientists and forward-thinking Hudson Valley libraries hosting street-level sensors to provide air quality information to their neighborhoods.

 

Hudson Valley Library Air Quality Network
These monitors are Purple Airs located at over 20 different libraries and homes in the Hudson Valley. Some started measuring air quality as early as 2022, but timeframes vary.

Weather Stations (Live)

Live weather data (HOBO weather stations) taken alongside the Regional Air Quality Stations (Red Hook, Kingston, Poughkeepsie, Newburgh).
  1. Red Hook (Bard stevenson library)
  2. Poughkeepsie (Adriance Memorial Library)
  3. Kingston (ANDY MURPHY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER)

(Better public access to data coming soon, please contact us for historical data)

Red Hook: December 2020 – Present

Kingston: January 2020 – Present

Poughkeepsie: January 2024 – Present

Watershed Health

Many community-fueled water quality monitoring programs are conducted on Hudson Valley waterways used for recreation,  drinking water, and effluent discharge. These are some of the data they’ve partnered with the Bard Community Sciences Lab to attain.
  1. saw kill Monitoring project
  2. roeliff jansen monitoring project
  3. Saw kill watershed community
Saw Kill Data: ~1920 – present (various types of data related to the health of the watershed, including water quality (1975 – Present); Bird surveys (1920 – Present); bacterial communities (2015 – present); and more (just ask!). 

Roe-Jan Data: 2019 – Present
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