AQMRC research showcased on RTE

AQMRC research, in collaboration with University College Dublin, on ammonia and its impacts on Natura 2000 sites in Ireland will be showcased on the RTE television programme, Ear to the Ground. Dr David Kelleghan (UCD) will be discussing the work of the AmmoniaN2K project and the ammonia monitoring that has been undertaken in some sensitive bog habitats. The programme is to be shown on Thursday 19^th February 2019 at 7pm on RTE1.

AQMRC supporting the Environment Agency

AQMRC are supporting the Environment Agency to undertake a strategic review of the UK’s air quality monitoring network and explore how that network might evolve in the future. Dr Ben Williams is currently on secondment within the EA and is working alongside EA, University of York and Kings College London colleagues to build baseline evidence and enable UK air quality practitioners to have their say on the future network. Supported by Enda Hayes and Jo Barnes, the secondment is expected to run for approximately 12 months.

AQMRC represented at the Met Office Workshop

Enda Hayes and Jim Longhurst were invited to attend and present at the Met Office / UKRI workshop to inform the development of the Strategic Priorities Fund Clean Air Project. Run over three days in Exeter (6^th – 8^th February 2019), the event brought academics and practitioners from a number of backgrounds together to share their understanding of the challenges facing the system of air quality management and explore how the Strategic Priorities Fund could close these gaps.

ClairCity presented at the Scottish Government Annual Seminar

Enda was invited to present at the Scottish Government Annual Air Pollution Seminar organised by Ricardo (Edinburgh – 12^th February 2019). The event was well attended with over 85 registered delegates and covers a range of interesting topics from communication, to low cost sensors, to remote sensing for tail-pipe emission testing. Enda presented on the lessons learned from the ClairCity project on how to communicate air quality and carbon issues/solutions to the public and also drew from some of the findings from the Urban-ID and Upstream projects.