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Welcome to Part Two of our Series Exploring the Effect Wildfires Have in the United States & Globally.  If you Missed Part One, Start Here! What toll are unprecedented wildfires taking on our environment, society, and local economies in 2021 as we look toward the future?  Environmental or socio-economic impacts from wildfires in the United…

What are Beta Attenuation Mass Monitors? Beta Attenuation Mass Monitors, “BAMs,” are regarded as the standard for continuous ambient particulate mass measurement in air quality monitoring because of their simplicity, reliability, and unsurpassed accuracy. Almost all large air quality monitoring networks worldwide use BAMs for this reason. Because of their uncompromising accuracy and ease of…

Welcome to the beginning of a new Met One Instruments Inc. blog series!  We are here to help you make sense of Wildfire reports & data from around the world…🌎 Wildfires in 2021 are raging.  Locations worldwide, such as Athens, Turkey, Canada, California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Brazil, and throughout the Amazon Rainforest in South America,…

Learn How One Visual Artist Makes Air Pollution Stunningly Visible & Forefront in our Fight to Keep the World’s Air Clean… We are excited to announce that BBC News recently released a fascinating article about how a visual artist, Marina Vitaglione, has used traditional photographic techniques to produce “otherworldly” images created by samples of London’s air…

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT INDOOR AIR QUALITY (IAQ) You have probably heard about the Air Quality Index (AQI). You can readily see the latest information regarding ambient air quality levels in your community and many cities worldwide listed alongside the weather report. With increasingly destructive and lengthening wildfire seasons, most of us have been concerned…

Learn the Difference Between a Particle Counter and a Nephelometer, and Why Monitoring Indoor Air Quality is Important We can all recall our mothers telling us as children to go outside and get some fresh air. Who would have known just how important this statement was and is today? Unfortunately, air pollution affects the entire…

Learn about the most extreme heatwave in modern history recorded in June 2021 & how heatwaves create air pollution… A historic heatwave accounting for at least 600 known deaths due to heat exposure plagued the Pacific Northwest of the United States and Canada last week. It was reported that this extreme heatwave is so rare,…

A Case Study Using the Met One Instruments, Inc. BAM 1020 During Wildfire Season Introduction The Met One Instruments, Inc. BAM 1020 is used extensively in government air quality monitoring networks worldwide to measure PM2.5 and PM10. The data collected from these instruments are often reported to the public as measured PM2.5 or PM10 in…