Territory-based research institute, Menzies School of Health Research is seeking volunteers to be ‘Citizen Climate Scientists’ as part of its ‘Air in Alice’ project, where it plans to collect data on the air quality and heat in Alice Springs by crowd sourcing the data from the residence of Mparntwe Alice Springs.
Senior Research Officer on the Air in Alice project, Dr Lisa Stefanoff, spoke at CAAMA Radio, saying that, “There have been playgrounds in Sydney measured with temperatures that gives kids third degree burns, schools too hot for kids brains to function.”
Dr. Stefanoff says that as part of the project, they’re looking for people to volunteer to use a number of gadgets to collect data around the town, from an air quality detector, a temperature monitor that clips onto your bag, a thermal camera that attaches to your smart phone to an ingestible device that monitors internal temperature.
Dr. Stefanoff says that the best way to protect people from the negative impacts of a heating climate in the future is to collect data to shape policy in the future.