Projects

Surya indoor air pollution
Funded by Qualcomm's Wireless Reach Initiative
The Surya phone measures indoor air pollution levels and exposure to that pollution. This platform will first be used with Project Surya to measure pollution and pollution exposure in rural Indian villages. Our Surya phones will be used to scientifically and scalably document the public health and environmental impacts of introducing clean-cooking technologies to thousands villagers in rural India.

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Seabird conservation
In partnership with the Coastal Conservation Action Lab at UCSC
An iteration on our SoundProof platform, we are developing an affortable tool for monitoring seabirds in remote location. Seabirds play key functional roles in the ocean and on islands, and link these two ecosystems. However, seabirds are the most threatened group of marine species. Accurate measurement of seabird populations is critical to evaluating and maximizing the return on management actions.

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Sound Proof measuring sound
Funded by Switzer Foundataion and in collaboration with USC
We are developing SoundProof, a calibrated mobile phone tool with Dr. Scott Fruin and Green Empowerment to monitor the sound presure level and record an individual's exposure to environmental noise in urban areas.

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Neighborhood Senses community mapping
We are developing Neighborhood Senses, a new platform that collects the sensory experiences of community members using ordinary mobile phones and represents them in a high-impact, web-based graphical format. This platform covers a range of uses from monitoring the effects of industrial pollution to document the reliability and service of water and sanitation services in developing regions.

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