For Port of Seattle Commission, vote Todd Curtis

As we’ve written many times, Port of Seattle Commissioner is the most consequential vote on any ballot for airport community voters. But it is also the most difficult choice because position information on the issues we care about most is so difficult to find. Candidates focus on issues of concern to every constituency except airport communities.

2023 Community Health asks for Seattle/King County Department of Health

Some research we would like to see from Seattle/King County Department of Health, including indoor air quality and the efficacy of Port Packages both old and new. The article discusses how politics tends to shift the focus of research and concludes with the need for Magic Wand Experiments--an open discussion of what work is truly needed--in order to move the process forward.

Anatomy of an air quality monitoring network

This is a fixed site air quality monitoring (AQM) station. If your first reaction was, “So what?”, skip to the bottom, we’ll wait. You can view this as a stand-alone device, or you can view it as one node in a network of AQMs, which work together to allow for researchers to capture a much

No Data, No Problem

We wrote an article called Anatomy of An Air Quality Monitoring Network. This article explains why building that system is so important to the future of Sea-Tac Airport Communities. It also describes a far more generalized problem in obtaining environmental mitigation. History In the world of engineering there is an expression: “No data, no problem.”

Four nodes in 400 words

What we have now This is one portion of the current Puget Sound Clean Air Agency air quality monitoring network map. The stars belong to PSCAA. The dots are rando PurpleAirs that belong to members of the public, they are irrelevant to this discussion. Airport Scroll down on that map to the airport. Notice something