The agreement provides conduct ambient air monitoring of pollutants of greatest concern in communities with environmental and health outcome disparities stemming from pollution and the covid-19…

The agreement provides conduct ambient air monitoring of pollutants of greatest concern in communities with environmental and health outcome disparities stemming from pollution and the covid-19 pandemic. The primary goal is to develop and evaluate a framework to facilitate sustainable community-led air testing (PM) campaigns, intergenerational learning and deliberative community engagement to 'inpower' communities (inpowerment begins internally, whereas empowerment begins externally), preserve a cultural history, enable informed decision-making, and foster strategic political collective action on the fate of the i-10, by a culturally significant, yet politically disenfranchised new orleans neighborhood. Activities:students will collect PM concentration data along the i-10 and in neighborhoods adjoining the i-10 using airbeam PM air monitors (figure 4). Airbeams will be purchased and held in a community monitoring equipment 'lending library' and provided freely to schools or teachers who wish to implement associated lesson plans. The airbeam PM monitor is a low-cost hand-sized mobile air quality instrument that measures hyperlocal concentrations of (PM1,2.5,10, humidity, temperature and sound levels). When used in conjunction with the smartphone aircasting APP, these data are then cast to habitatmap, an open source website where measurements are aggregated, crowdsourced, mapped and graphed in real-time every minute via wifi or cellular network (figure 4). This allows the community to visualize areas where PM concentrations are highest to inform decision-making. Students will interpret and translate results. This curriculum was highlighted by the american academy for the advancement of science (aaas) for the creative ways children found to communicate results; while dateline ABC filmed our monitoring event with homer plessy 1ST grade students for an upcoming special on highway impacts on minority communities (figure 4). Historical documentation: students will document the experiences of a dying creole culture through interviews and videos of elderly residents who still remember treme before the i-10, and who can speak to the impacts IT had on the economy, environment, health, culture and community. These individuals are over 60 years old now, so IT is important to record their experiences to reinvigorate a community resigned to an inequitable fate, and to inspire younger subrecipient:three subawards are included in this assistance agreement. #1- LSU school of public health- is responsible for grants, budget, and contracts oversight, management and reporting (in conjunction with LSU-SPH). - LSU foundation is responsible for the following deliverables: 1) subcontracts and reports (in conjunction with LSU-SPH). LSU health will facilitate post-award grant management responsibilities including fiscal tasks such as maintaining compliant recordkeeping, timely payment of invoices and subawards. The director of grants will perform subrecipient reviews for compliance and participate in partner meetings as a compliance resource. #2 -claiborne AVE alliance - ) is responsible managing all deliberative community engagement and community planning events; primary and secondary school and student engagement; community outreach; and oversight of ACV activities and contract. - CAA will be responsible for the following deliverables: 1) deliberative community engagement toolkit; 2) student products and historical documentation; 3) community outreach materials; and 4) project interim and summary reports (in association with LSU-SPH). #3- a community voice - is responsible for community recruitment, meeting facilitation, and community surveys. - ACV will be responsible for the following deliverables: 1) community recruitment materials, and 2) a community feedback report. Outcomes:the anticipated deliverables include. Project outputs: 1) citizen science lesson plans; 2) deliber