Boston Pandora Project

This week, we completed re-installation of Pandoras throughout the Boston area. Our most recent project focuses on new measurements located in a community near the airport, as well as custom sky scans at multiple locations that will map horizontal variability in trace gases across the city with a focus on advancing new geostationary satellite observations of air quality. For this work, we are collaborating with investigators at the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge. These measurements also contribute to the larger network of Pandoras in the Pandonia Global Network.

Many thanks to staff from SciGlob who were in town to help with deployment. We also gratefully acknowledge collaborators at Boston University’s Department of Environmental Health, and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection Air Assessment Branch, who provide us with access and support at locations in Chelsea and Lynn.

See below for pictures of the instruments in the wild, and a map of our deployment! Stay tuned for exciting results…

Questions about our measurements should be directed to Jeff by e-mail at jgeddes[at]bu.edu.