{"id":5077,"date":"2023-09-04T22:19:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T02:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/?page_id=5077"},"modified":"2025-11-25T12:13:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T17:13:22","slug":"mcintyre-greenroots-inc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/mcintyre-greenroots-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Chelsea, MA\u2019s Air Pollution in a Changing Climate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<ul class=\"profile-listing profile-format-advanced\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-advanced has-title post-2499 profile type-profile status-publish hentry\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/profile\/alina-mcintyre\/\" class=\"profile-link profile-link-advanced\">\n\t\t<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-advanced\">\n\t\t\t<img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/urban\/files\/2020\/08\/AlinaMcIntyre_3-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Alina McIntyre headshot\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2020\/08\/AlinaMcIntyre_3-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2020\/08\/AlinaMcIntyre_3-2-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\t\t<\/figure>\n\n\t\t<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-advanced\">Alina McIntyre<\/h6>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title profile-title-advanced\">Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Silent Spring Institute\/Northeastern University<\/p>\t<\/a>\n\n\t\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Project Partner: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenrootschelsea.org\/\">GreenRoots, Inc.<\/a>, Summer 2022<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Description:<\/strong> Work analyzing both air quality and heat concurrently are limited; we need to better understand community residents\u2019 and decision makers\u2019 perceptions relating to air quality and heat, access to air quality and heat information, and specific PM2.5- and heat-attributable health impacts.<\/p>\n<p>Alina\u2019s work built on previous research conducted by the Chelsea and East Boston<\/p>\n<p>Heat Study (C-HEAT), a partnership between investigators at Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) and GreenRoots, Inc, an environmental justice non-profit based in Chelsea. She primarily investigated heat and air pollution exposures and participated in organizing and outreach efforts with Chelsea community members. She also created survey questions for outreach efforts, descriptive maps, and an interview methodology handout aimed at furthering climate and air quality work in Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Main Project Deliverables:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Air quality in Chelsea, Section 5: What is the Community Saying about air quality?<\/li>\n<li>Engaging with decision-makers on air quality and heat in Chelsea and East Boston, MA: an overview of interview methodology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See Alina&#8217;s URBAN Internship lightning talk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T_5LSUBRcws&amp;list=PLF0SN9CrRTPgcRE1KROD_rWSJgsLbtu_6\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Partner: GreenRoots, Inc., Summer 2022 Project Description: Work analyzing both air quality and heat concurrently are limited; we need to better understand community residents\u2019 and decision makers\u2019 perceptions relating to air quality and heat, access to air quality and heat information, and specific PM2.5- and heat-attributable health impacts. Alina\u2019s work built on previous research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18240,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":37,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5077"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6967,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5077\/revisions\/6967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}