Above: Logo designed in Fall 2021 by Isabelle Borkowski, a Loyola University undergrad, BA in Environmental Policy; below: students installing indoor sensor at 6018North in Spring 2023.

Community Air Research Experience (CARE)

The Community Air Research Experience (CARE) is a geoscience learning community that engages underrepresented undergraduates in research to measure and attribute air pollution in Chicago neighborhoods that differ in socioeconomic demographics and proximity to industrial facilities.

As a community partners in the NSF GEOPaths Community Air Research Experience (CARE) at Loyola University Chicago, 6018North and Edgewater Environmental Coalition (EEC) contribute our local expertise to help achieve the project’s goals to:

  • provide an applied, socially-relevant research experience for underrepresented minority students;

  • understand the spatial distribution and temporal variation of particle pollution in Chicago; and

  • provide air quality data for community use.

This is a project funded by the National Science Foundation’s GEOPAths Program.

Learn more on the project’s webpage, including live tracking of air quality in Edgewater right now.