Anyone who has already taken a look at the captorair.org homepage may have noticed that (e.g. in Austria) the color coding of the measuring points differs between the one-hour and eight-hour mean value. This is the result of the threshold values defined in the ozone act (OzonG) and their corresponding measuring method: Information threshold: 180[…]
Last Friday the Austrian CAPTOR Team was touring in the testbed region of Hartberg. On a bright sunny spring day they visited locations, where they will hang up RAPTORS in June. The RAPTORS will be near the school in the middle of town and on the main square in front of the city hall. Two[…]
Do you want to know if you breathe polluted air? Do you know what effects has ozone on your health, on crops and nature? Then participate in a citizen science project and help to find solutions to this problem. We test measuring devices and measure the ozone level in different regions in Italy, Spain and[…]
“Reality Check” – a radio program on Austria’s radiostation FM4 – broadcasted an interview with Martina Sordian about Captor, ozone and “what-we-can-do.”
The Natural History museum of Vienna provided a stand for the Global 2000 and ZSI teams where they could present the Captor device and facts about ground level ozone. Most people were very interested and often asked a lot of very specific questions: How is ground level ozone affected by humidity? How exactly does this[…]
It’s the end of November, temperatures feel more like a late summer evening, but the christmas markets have opened already. There is no sign of high ozone measurements in Vienna, but we still used the opportunity to present Captor at the market near Viennas technical university TU. There we could reach a wide range of[…]
On 17th November16 we presented the project and the measuring device CAPTOR at the Umweltkulturpraktikum (UKP) from GLOBAL 2000. At UKP environmental interested students get involved in different projects and they take part at seminars about various environmental issues. We explained basics on ozone pollution, presented the self built CAPTOR and asked them on their[…]
Last summer the CAPTOR-Team Austria was waiting patiently for the first 3 CAPTOR measuring devices to arrive. After beeing built and tested in Spain we got 3 CAPTORS. We installed them at 3 official measuring stations from the Federal Environmental Agency (in Illmitz) and the the Air Quality department of the Province of Lower Austria[…]