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This project partnered with the Globeville, Elyria-Swansea, Cole, and Clayton neighborhoods in Denver, Colorado, to understand and address the disruption caused by the Central 70 highway reconstruction project and related neighborhood redevelopment, including impacts on air quality, noise pollution, traffic patterns, and community well-being, while also working to amplify resident voices in decision-making processes.
Our National Science Foundation-funded project equipped and trained community members to use consumer-grade environmental monitors to measure air pollution in their neighborhoods and designed a set of user-friendly smartphone apps where they could report their daily experiences related to construction, pollution, and other environmental impacts affecting their health and quality of life.
Project Presentations
Please check out the recent talks about the project:
- Optimization of a Do-It-Yourself Air Cleaner Design to Reduce Residential Air Pollution Exposure for a Community Experiencing Environmental Injustices by Dr. Sam Sankhyan at the AAAR Conference
- 2023 Advisory Board Meeting
- The Problem with Air Pollution by Dr. Shelly Miller at the INC Conference
- Well-being and Air Pollution Exposure in Environmental Justice Communities by Dr. Esther Sullivan at the INC conference
- Well-being and Air Pollution Exposure During Major Construction in an Environmental Justice Community by Dr. Nicholas Clements at the CDC Built Environment Working Group Symposium
Contact Us
As a community-engaged project, our top priority is to make our research responsive to residents in these communities. Please contact our team with any requests, concerns, or questions.
GESC Community
The data was made available and shared with community organizations and residents engaged as community scientists throughout the study.