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Presentation Outcome
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The Committee will receive a presentation on the Air District
Marie Harrison Environmental Justice Scholarship Program,
which awarded seven scholarships to college students in 2023,
its inaugural year, and is currently accepting applications for the
second year of the program until May 31, 2024.
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Outline
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• Introduce Marie Harrison Community Foundation
• Overview of Marie Harrison Environmental Justice Scholarship
• Report on first year of the scholarship
• Share plans for second year of the scholarship
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Presentation for Informational Only
No action requested, informational only.
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Marie Harrison Community Foundation
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Scholarship Goals
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• Honor the life of Marie Harrison, an environmental justice
leader and supporter of impacted youth, who worked to bring
environmental, health and social justice to the Bayview
Hunters Point community in San Francisco and the Bay Area.
• Support college students who demonstrate a passion for
improving environmental health and air quality in the
overburdened frontline communities of the Bay Area.
• Support Air District's values of excellence, leadership,
collaboration, and equity.
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Year One Scholarship Review
• $85,000 provided by the Air District for year one (May 2022)
• Conducted focus groups and key informant interviews to support design of
scholarship
• Developed application and outreach strategies
• Reviewed applications and selected awardees
oEleven applications received; seven scholarships of $5,000 distributed to
awardees for a total of $35,000
• Followed-up with awardees to support educational goals
• Scholarship administered through Kaleidoscope platform for $15,000 a year
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Kevin G. Ruano
Hernandez
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Year One Scholarship Recipients
Jaiyah-Shalon
Gordon
Lorrene
Fudge
Jaheim
Smith
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Images submitted by scholarship recipients
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Year One Scholarship Recipients (cont.)
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Images submitted by scholarship recipients
Toddiana Jasper
Yolanda Harris
Ryan Feng
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Marie Harrison Environmental Justice
Scholarship Year Two
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• Scholarship application is open until May 31, 2024: bit.ly/MHEJ2024
• Next steps:
o Outreach across the Bay Area to notify eligible students at schools, after
school programs, youth leadership programs, Assembly Bill 617 sites, and
to James Cary Smith Grantees
o Review applications, select awardees, and distribute funds
o Mentor and support scholarship recipients
o Distribute nine scholarships of $5,000 for a total of $45,000
o Scholarship administered through Kaleidoscope for $15,000 a year
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Feedback Requested
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Beyond the outreach strategies described, who else can we
outreach to about year two of the Marie Harrison Environmental
Justice Scholarship?
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Presentation Outcome
Provide an overview of air monitoring data available for
communities and ongoing efforts to work with communities to
improve data accessibility and use.
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Presentation Outline
• Types of air monitoring
• Potential data accessibility improvements
• U sing air monitoring data for different purposes
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Presentation for Information Only
• No action required.
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Air Pollution
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Emissions to Health Effects
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Types of Air Monitoring
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• Many ways to collect air monitoring including:
oRegulatory air monitoring
oSource-oriented air monitoring (fenceline monitoring)
oTargeted short-term air monitoring projects
oLong-term air sensor networks
oPublicly deployed air sensors
• Characterizes the total amount of an air pollutant in ambient air from
all contributing sources
• U sefulness of data to answer a question depends on the sensor or
monitor deployment (e.g. is it the right pollutant, with the right
accuracy, in the right place, with the right averaging time)
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Monitoring Approach Needs to Match Goal
• Are we measuring emissions or ambient
air concentrations?
• Do we need real- time preliminary data
or reporting of final data?
• There are still limitations on what
pollutants can be measured well.
• Sensitivity and range: how low
concentrations can you reliably report, do
we want accurate data at low and very
high levels?
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Monitoring Approach Needs to Match Goal
(cont.)
• Selectivity: Are we measuring
specific compounds (e.g.
naphthalene) or families of
compounds, Polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons (PAHs), are there
possible interferences from other air
pollutants or environmental
conditions?
• Deployment characteristics:
moving or stationary, outdoor
conditions, logistics constraints
(power, security, safety)
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Regulatory Ambient Air Monitoring
Long-term air monitoring stations operated by air
agencies according to Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) requirements
U se data to:
• Determine attainment with health-based
National Ambient Air Q uality Standards
(NAAQ S)
• Evaluate air quality trends over long
time periods
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Regulatory Ambient Air Monitoring (cont.)
• Provide real-time data on air
pollution levels in overburdened
communities and throughout
jurisdiction
• Provide high quality anchor to air
measurements in overburdened
communities
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Source- Oriented Air Monitoring
Long-term tracking of ambient air quality at the facility
fenceline or in nearby communities
Operated by facilities, Air District, or community and
non-profit organizations
U se data to:
• Characterize impacts of uncertain or fugitive
emissions on nearby communities over time
• Demonstrate the effectiveness of emission limits in
rules
• Inform emissions and exposure reduction
strategies, including rule development and
compliance investigations
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Targeted Air Monitoring Proj ects
Short-duration air monitoring studies designed
to answer specific questions
U se data to:
• Report snapshots of air pollution levels
• Identify local-scale differences in air quality
• Identify unknown emissions and potential
impacts on nearby communities
• Inform emissions and exposure reduction
strategies, including rule development and
compliance investigations
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L onger- Term Air Sensor Networks
Dense networks of air sensors
U se data to:
• Provide real-time data for
overburdened communities
• Evaluate air quality trends in time,
after emissions reductions, or other
changes in conditions
• Identify local-scale differences in air
quality
• Inform emissions and exposure
reduction strategies, including rule
development and compliance
investigations
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Publicly Available Air Sensor Data
Air sensors deployed by public individuals;
data displayed on websites
U se data to:
• Provide real-time data on air pollution
levels
• Evaluate air quality trends in time, after
emissions reductions, or other changes in
conditions (wildfires)
• Identify local-scale differences in air quality
• Inform emissions and exposure reduction
strategies, including rule development and
compliance investigations
Public Purple Air Sensors (PM
2.5
)
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Improving Data Accessibility
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W ork with community partners to develop a plan to improve data
accessibility, including:
• Identify and consolidate existing air monitoring data, where
possible
• Develop resources to help communities access and use air
monitoring data for their objectives
• Identify gaps where new data collection, analysis, or consolidation
is needed
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Example: Air Monitoring Data Inventory
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https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/ab617-community-health/richmond/quarterly-report-documents/ptca-
monitoring-data-inventory-pdf.pdf?rev=035218b4e730422fa5bee32b9259850b
Develop inventories of existing air
monitoring data so that community
members can find and use existing data to
support their work.
The Path to Clean Air Community Air
Monitoring Plan (PTCA CAMP) included
such a list of air and emissions monitoring
efforts including information on who is
conducting the monitoring, what pollutants
are being measured and where, and a brief
description of where the data can be
viewed, downloaded, or requested.
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Example – Resource Guide for Data
W ebsites
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Publicly available air monitoring data
are displayed on many websites
Developed a guide describing how
air monitoring data is displayed,
what it is useful for, and provide
links.
https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/ab617-community-health/richmond/quarterly-report-
documents/guide-to-air-quality-data-websites-pdf.pdf?rev=739ed95f8c0a438a80f7458e85193b52
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Example: B ay Air Center Resource L ibrary
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Resource Library includes
links to websites and
documents on many topics
• Air Pollution Foundations
• Designing a Community
Scale Air Monitoring
Project
• U nderstanding Air Q uality
Data
• Educational and Training
Materials
https://bayaircenter.org/
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Using Air Monitoring Data
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Examples of using all types of existing air monitoring data to
help
• Analysis of community sensor network data to identify
locations with higher Particulate Matter (PM
2.5
)
• U se real-time data to assess air quality impacts during
a facility incident
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Example: Community PM
2.5
Sensor Network
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Identify areas with
higher hourly PM
2.5
levels
Continue to provide
community-scale
assessments of air
quality like this
https://www.baaqmd.gov/com
munity-health/community-
health-protection-
program/richmond-area-
community-health-protection-
program/community-air-
monitoring
North of Hilltop
Percent of Hours at least 5 µ g/m
3
Above
Sensor Network Average, 2020-2021
North Richmond
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Example: StoryMap for PTCA CAMP
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Air toxics monitoring project
• Air District air monitoring van
surveyed target areas for certain
air toxics
• Higher levels of different air toxics
were detected in near specific
facilities and operations in the
study area
• Key findings were summarized
and displayed in an interactive
Geographic Information System
(GIS)-based StoryMap
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Example: Real- time Data During Incidents
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Incident at City of Richmond
W astewater Treatment Plant
(V eolia) – December 4-6, 2023
• High readings of Hydrogen
Sulfide (H
2
S) higher
• at V eolia’ s two fenceline
monitors
• Some peak concentrations at
V eolia coincided with elevated
readings at other nearby
monitors
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Example: Real Time Data During Incidents
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Some of the peak impacts were
experienced in overburdened
communities, including East and
W est Oakland and along I-880
Screenshots from the PurpleAir website (map.purpleair.com) of PM
2.5
10-min averages
W inds shifted overnight and
transported smoke northward
PM
2.5
data from lower-cost sensors helped illustrate the spatial extent of the smoke plume
Fire at Schnitzer Steel in West Oakland
Included information about
the location of in air quality
advisories and
presentations to other
agencies and community
organizations
Smoke was initially
transported into parts
of the East Bay and
South Bay
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Upcoming Data Accessibility W ork
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Refinery emissions and air monitoring data consolidation
• W ork with Community Advisory Council, upcoming Refinery Corridor
Community W orkgroup, and PTCA Community Emissions Reduction Plan
(CERP) Implementation Community Steering Committee (CSC)
• Consolidate all refinery-related data, making data easier to find or download
and providing additional information and context so data is more meaningful
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Future Directions
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• Continue working with community partners to develop air
monitoring data resources and community-scale air quality
assessments
• Continue to increase transparency and accessibility of existing
data
• Strengthen requirements for facility-conducted air monitoring to
increase availability of real-time data
• Track other efforts and new legislation aimed at increasing
availability of air monitoring data and share new information
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Feedback Requested/ Q uestions
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Q uestions and Comments?
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