The European Researchers night is an event, where scientists all across Europe demonstrate their projects to interested visitors. Captor was presented at Vienna’s Researchers night. Especially young students and pupils showed interest in the Ozon measuring devices. Most asked question: “Can I build one myself?”
As a Citizen Science project, that actively involved citizens in the scientific process, CAPTOR is now listed in the Austrian Citizen Science Portal: Österreich forscht The portal offers access to many Citizen Science projects in Austria that cover different areas of interest. Just check it out and become a Citizen Scientist!
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[…]
On 13th of June the Autrian Captor-Team was on tour in Weiz, first at a school having performed a workshop on Captor for two classes, then at Innovation Centre Weiz having discussed ideal locations for the Captor measuring instruments as well as future scenarios to have the Innovation Centre Weiz built their own Captor measuring[…]
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[…]
“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[…]
The proceedings of the Austrian Citizen Science Conference 2016 are available for download. An extended abstract with the title “The CAPTOR project: Joint Efforts Reducing Ozone Pollution” is included – see pp. 35-38 Download under: http://www.frontiersin.org/books/Austrian_Citizen_Science_Conference_2016/1026 The CAPTOR project will again participate and contribute to the next Austrian Citizen Science Conference 2017. This time we[…]
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[…]
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