Press

Down To Earth
July 31, 2011
Count carbon the cheap way

Radar Malang (Indonesian)
July 25, 2011
Develop WaterSMS Services

Raya (Indonesian)
July 23, 2011
Water traffic with SMS

Malang Post (Indonesian)
July 23, 2011
Malang PDAM tracks water problems via SMS

Indian Express
July 7, 2011
Indian-origin prof uses cellphone to monitor black carbon

Christial Science Monitor
December 30, 2010
How can your cellphone protect you from air pollution: A California nonprofit now lets any camera-equipped cell phone measure your exposure to black soot.

LiveScience
December 24, 2010
Californians Could Use Cell Phones to Track Air Pollution.

Scientific American
December 15, 2010
How to stop Black Carbon: Could a network of cell phones improve air pollution monitoring?

UCLA Newsletter
Summer, 2010
Social Entrepreneurship: Nexleaf Takes it to the Next Level.

Swedish National Morning News (Radio Interview in Swedish)
September 3, 2010
Researcher Are Assisted By Rural Women.

Swedish Public Radio, Science Radio (Radio Interview in Swedish)
September 3, 2010
Project Surya's use of mobile phones to monitor indoor pollution.

Nature
April 23, 2009
Personal technology: Phoning in data

Mobile Active
April 21, 2009
Nexleaf's indoor pollution monitoring system is covered in this prominent mobile blog.

Nexleaf Publications

  • A cellphone based system for large-scale monitoring of black carbon N Ramanathan, M Lukac, T Ahmed, A Kar, PS Praveen, T Honles, I Leong, IH Rehman, JJ Schauer, V Ramanathan. Atmospheric Environment 45 (2011) 4481-4487.
  • Assessment of SoundProof and Noise Mapping Tools for Individual Noise Profile Construction [DOC] J Zhang, N Ramanathan, M Lukac, D Estrin. Nexleaf Analytics Technical Report. September, 2010.
  • Cellphones as a Distributed Platform for Black Carbon Data Collection [PDF] N Ramanathan, M Ramana, M Lukac, P Siva, T Ahmed, A Kar, H Rehman, V Ramanathan. Abstract ED11A-0576 presendted at 2010 Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco. Poster is here, and a Online abstract.
  • Improving automated acoustic devices for seabird monitoring [Poster PDF] M McKown, M Lukac, A Borker, N Ramanathan, D Croll, B Tershy. First World Seabird Conference. Victoria, Canada. September, 2010.
  • Project Surya: Mitigation of Global and Regional Climate Change [PDF] N Ramanathan, I H Rehman, and V Ramanathan. Subset published in the World Bank Development Report, 2010
  • Mitigation of Global and Regional Climate Change: Buying the planet time by reducing black carbon, methane and ozone [PDF] N Ramanathan, I H Rehman, A Kar, N Bhatt, and V Ramanathan. Published in the UNEP Black Carbon Newsletter, October 2009

News

  • January 2011 -- Nexleaf Analytics awarded a second grant from Qualcomm to develop a mobile phone platform to measure the impact of clean technology on public health and the environment Project Surya.
  • December 14, 2010 -- Nexleaf Analytics will be participating in a press conference at the 2010 AGU Fall Meeting about our global black carbon monitoring efforts. Martin is presenting a poster titled "Cellphones as a Distributed Platform for Black Carbon Data Collection". Poster is here, and a link to the abstract.
  • December 8, 2010 -- Nexleaf Analytics has been invited to participate on two pannels at COP16. Nithya will be presenting and discussing our global black carbon monitoring efforts. We will post her slides after the talks. Here is the flyer we will be passing out at the meeting!
  • September 30, 2010 -- Invited panelist at the EPA West Coast Collaborative Meeting
  • September 21, 2010 -- Nithya gives a seminar at NASA Jet Propulsion Lab
  • September 2010 -- Deploy acoustic wildlife sensor platform in Santa Cruz, CA.
  • September 2010 -- Deploy black carbon sensors and cellphones in Khairatpur, India with Project Surya.
  • August 2010 -- Nexleaf Analytics and Pacific Institute awarded USAID grant to develop WASH SMS.
  • August 2010 -- Nithya presents black carbon monitoring system to the Secretary of Bhutan and other Ministry officials at the TERI offices.
  • July 2010 -- Invited to take part in Biospheric Carbon Monitoring meeting at UC Office of the President.
  • March 2010 -- Invited expert on USAID panel held in DC.
  • March 2010 -- Nexleaf Analytics and collaborators UC Santa Cruz and Island Conservation awarded NSF IDBR #0964254.