Air Quality Monitoring

Tons of data. But not the right kind. Real-Time Monitors There are four (close-to) real-time monitoring sites which will show you some aspects of air quality around the airport. Washington State Department of Ecology Ecology is the State agency which determines criteria (regulated) pollutants. Note that monitor closest to the airport is over nine miles

Air Quality Monitor Jay Inslee Ecology Jefferson

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Gov. Jay Inslee, right, speaks with Greg Crider, an air monitoring scientist with the Department of Ecology, as he visits the Jefferson Park-Beacon Hill Air Monitoring Station in Seattle on Tuesday. (Karen Ducey / The Seattle Times)

Gov. Jay Inslee, right, speaks with Greg Crider, an air monitoring scientist with the Department of Ecology, as he visits the Jefferson Park-Beacon Hill ...

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