The Jones (R.) Group has worked on a number of research projects.
Current Projects
Low cost sensors for monitoring urban pollution
In the Jones (R.) Group we develop low cost air quality sensors that allow us to probe urban pollution in unprecedented detail. As part of this work, we demonstrate how these low cost air quality sensor networks can be used to address important scientific and political questions.
Studies include low cost sensor network deployments at:
- Heathrow airport
- Beijing
- Dehli
In the case of Heathrow airport, for example, results from our sensor networks can be used to both quantify emissions and provide predictions of the likely impact of an airport expansion.
Find out more detail by watching our short video on the Media Links page.
Air quality and human health
In the Jones (R.) Group we utilise portable air quality sensors that can test the linkages between exposure to pollution and the subsequent health impact/s. The sensor units allow us to develop activity models, when can then be used to predict air pollution dose with a high level of accuracy.
They are now used for studies of Chronic Chronic Obsructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in London, and wider health impacts (Beijing and elsewhere).
Other Projects
Other projects within the group range from using cavity ringdown spectroscopy and its variants for making ultrasensitive (sub-ppt level) airborne and ground based measurements of radical species (using the FAAM aircraft), balloon borne measurements of GHGs, volcanic emissions and many more.