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Our Series B: An Investment in Clean Air for All

By Aclima on November 19 2020

By Davida Herzl, Co-founder and CEO, Aclima

Ten years ago, I moved to Silicon Valley to start building Aclima, inspired by the stories of mission-driven and brilliant people coming together to solve the world’s hardest problems. Legendary companies like Fairchild Semiconductor and Xerox Parc, responsible for technology advancements that moved society forward by leaps and bounds, spoke to what was possible. I couldn’t imagine a more important problem than climate change. And I was convinced that the technology community had a big role to play in giving people the tools to understand and reduce emissions and their impacts on both human and planetary health.  

Topics: Air Quality Company Announcement Climate Change Public Health Environmental Justice
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PM 2.5 Surges As Wildfires Rage in California

By Aclima on September 21 2020

As six of the largest 20 fires in California history poured smoke into the atmosphere in recent weeks, and new fires were sparked in Oregon and Washington, the skies over the Bay Area and beyond were blanketed in smoke and at times turned unnerving shades of orange. Reports of ash falling flooded social media as entire towns were evacuated due to the fires.

Topics: Wildfire San Francisco PM 2.5 California West Coast Mobile Mapping
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California Air Quality During Lightning Complex Fires

By Aclima on August 28 2020

On August 16, 2020, more than 10,000 lightning strikes pummeled the Bay Area, sparking wildfires across the region. Twelve days later, two of the three largest fires ever recorded in California history are still burning. Aclima scientists analyzed both regulatory and Aclima data to identify patterns in the impacts of these lightning complex fires on air quality.

Topics: PM 2.5 California Air Quality Bay Area
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Aclima Now Mapping Air Quality in Brooklyn

By Aclima on August 25 2020

Aclima is now measuring air pollution and greenhouse gases block by block throughout Downtown Brooklyn and nearby potential environmental justice communities, including portions of Clinton Hill, Gowanus, Red Hook, and Sunset Park. The below map outlines the areas where our mobile sensing fleet is measuring this summer.

Topics: Air Quality Mobile Mapping Brooklyn New York
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New Interactive Report: San Diego Portside and Border Community Air Quality

By Aclima on August 24 2020

Aclima’s roving sensor network has been measuring air pollution and greenhouse gases block by block, across portside and border communities in San Diego since March 2019. Today we released an online hyperlocal air quality report sharing the seasonal averages for all measured pollutants for summer (June-September) and fall (September-December) 2019.

Topics: Air Quality Mobile Mapping San Diego
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Where There’s Smoke in San Francisco, There’s Fine Particulate Matter in West Oakland

By Aclima on July 30 2020

Early Tuesday morning in San Francisco, a massive five-alarm fire erupted in a building supply company according to the San Francisco Fire Department (SFFD). Smoke from the fire rose in a plume high above ground level and was blown northeastward by the winds aloft. Aclima’s network of mobile and stationary air quality sensors picked up the local spikes in fine particulate matter (PM₂.₅) in the hours after the fire began. We continued to see elevated PM₂.₅ levels — particularly in the East Bay — until the valiant and commendable people of the SFFD all but extinguished it midday. However, firefighters remain on the scene as the debris continues to burn.

Topics: West Oakland Wildfire Air Quality Bay Area
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New Research Reveals Hyperlocal Air Pollution Varies Over Space & Time

By Aclima on June 30 2020

Scientists from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Envair, and Aclima analyzed millions of block-by-block measurements (2016–2017) of air quality in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, and California’s Central Valley with Aclima sensing technology on Google Street View cars, and confirmed that air pollution can persistently vary by six to eight times from one block to another.

Topics: Air Quality Mobile Mapping Research Science
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Aclima and Google Release New Air Quality Dataset

By Aclima on June 25 2020

During her keynote at Collision from Home today, our co-founder and CEO Davida Herzl announced that Aclima and Google are making a massive air pollution dataset freely available to the scientific community. Over the course of four years, the two companies have together generated and aggregated more than 42 million hyperlocal air quality measurements throughout California.

Topics: Air Quality Data
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Welcome to Aclima, Dr. Crystal Upperman!

By Aclima on June 24 2020

New Senior Scientist to Advance Aclima Technology in Support of Health and Environmental Justice

Crystal Upperman, Ph.D., MPA, has joined Aclima as the new Senior Scientist to oversee the company’s efforts to integrate public health information and informed risk characterization into Aclima’s products. Her work will expand our capabilities to support customers’ environmental health, climate adaptation and mitigation efforts, and bring equity into decisionmaking.

Topics: Science Team
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Aclima to Launch in NYC This Summer

By Aclima on June 18 2020

Hyperlocal Air Pollution Mapping to Accelerate and Support Climate Action and Public Health Initiatives

Today we announced our plans to deploy our mobile air quality sensing fleet in New York for the first time. This summer in Brooklyn, we will generate and analyze millions of air pollution and greenhouse gas measurements, block by block, day and night, weekdays and weekends.

Topics: Air Quality Mobile Mapping Brooklyn New York
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Mapping Street-Level and Real-Time Air Quality in West Oakland

By Aclima on June 11 2020

Today, in collaboration with local community groups West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project (WOEIP) and Rising Sun Center for Opportunity, we are launching a freely available, interactive, online report of block-by-block air pollutant and greenhouse gas levels throughout West Oakland, representing 34 million data points measured over six months in the second half of 2019. Community members can look up hyperlocal air pollution by address — where they live, work, play, and learn — share on social media, and access resources to take action.

Topics: West Oakland Air Quality Data
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Air Pollution Fluctuates in San Diego

By Aclima on May 28 2020

In February and March, physical distancing initiatives to slow the spread of COVID-19 resulted in reduced travel, which correlated with declines in air pollutant levels around the world. In April, however, we began to see an increase in air pollutants in parts of California, as measured by both regulatory monitors and Aclima’s mobile sensing network.

Topics: Air Quality San Diego Covid-19
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Cleaner Air Throughout California

By Aclima on April 14 2020

Californians have now been sheltering in place since March 20. While social distancing is slowing the spread of COVID-19, it’s also significantly reducing air pollutant and greenhouse gas levels across the state. Residents from San Diego to Sacramento are seeing clearer skies and breathing cleaner air, even in the center of cities that rarely experience a noticeable reduction in air pollution.

Topics: California Air Quality Covid-19
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Bay Area Pollutant Levels Drop for Second Week

By Aclima on March 31 2020

With the shelter-in-place order in the San Francisco Bay Area extending until at least May 1, millions of people continue to stay home to slow the spread of COVID-19. Just two weeks into what is now expected to last at least six weeks, there are indications that social distancing is indeed flattening the curve and slowing an influx of patients that might otherwise have overwhelmed Bay Area hospitals.

Topics: Air Quality Bay Area Mobile Mapping Covid-19
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Bay Area Air Pollution During COVID-19

By Aclima on March 24 2020

How efforts to flatten the curve of COVID-19 are reflected in air quality

With millions of people sheltering in place across the Bay Area, the daily ebb and flow of urban life has come to a sudden halt. The COVID-19 pandemic has upended many patterns and placed tremendous strain on medical, economic, political, and social systems. The corresponding drop in regional traffic, along with reduced industrial and commercial activity, has also led to a significant decline in air-polluting emissions. While images of empty freeways paint a surreal picture, they also give us an unprecedented glimpse into what happens to the air we breathe when we drastically and suddenly cut emissions.

Topics: Air Quality Bay Area Mobile Mapping Covid-19
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Illuminating Hyperlocal Air Pollution in Richmond-San Pablo

By Aclima on February 20 2020

Aclima measures air quality where people live, work, and spend time with friends and family. Our approach to air quality mapping provides visibility into people’s lived experience of pollution. This new picture of air quality illuminates how pollution impacts people’s health and lives in our communities.

At the Richmond-San Pablo AB 617 steering committee yesterday, we released an interactive report of hyperlocal, average air pollution in Richmond-San Pablo in the SF Bay Area, from August 1 through October 31, 2019, at insights.aclima.io/richmond-san-pablo.

Topics: Air Quality Bay Area Mobile Mapping Data
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Mapping Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases on Every Block in the Bay Area

By Aclima on January 14 2020

First-ever Mobile Environmental Sensor Network to Span an Entire Metropolitan Region, Covering 5,000 Square Miles in 9 Counties

 

Today, as we send the first of our mapping fleet into Santa Clara County, we reach a new milestone in our work mapping air pollutants and greenhouse gases block-by-block throughout the Bay Area to protect human health and the environment.

Topics: PM 2.5 Air Quality Bay Area Mobile Mapping
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The next step towards making block-by-block air pollution visible to San Diego communities

By Aclima on September 9 2019

This May, Aclima and San Diego County announced a partnership to bring hyper-local air quality data and insights to San Diego communities, regulators, and policymakers. Aclima’s air quality mapping and analysis platform provides next-generation diagnostics of critical air pollutants and greenhouse gases at block-by-block resolution. Today, we are giving the public visibility into air quality in their neighborhoods on our website. This is a first step towards making air pollution visible to San Diegans where they live, work, play and learn, so they can take action to improve air quality and protect their health.

Topics: Air Quality Mobile Mapping San Diego
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Innovation at Collision 2019

By Aclima on September 3 2019

As the world continues to set new records in global climate emissions, humanity is increasingly experiencing the personal health effects caused by polluted air. This year alone, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere exceeded 415 parts per million for the first time in human history, while a new global comprehensive review has found evidence that air pollution affects every organ in the body at every stage of life.

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Bringing Block-by-Block Air Quality Mapping to San Diego County

By Aclima on May 28 2019

From Los Angeles to the Bay Area, and California’s Central Valley, Aclima is helping to drive new policies and actions to improve air quality throughout California. Building on this momentum, we are happy to announce that San Diego County is working with Aclima to map hyper-local air quality in environmental justice communities to support monitoring and emissions reduction efforts outlined in AB 617, a law tackling California’s air quality concerns.

Topics: Air Quality San Diego Data

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