BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.8//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:43789@panoramanow.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251202T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251202T183000 DTSTAMP:20260115T215005Z URL:https://panoramanow.com/events/regional-air-water-and-soil-pollution-d iscussed-on-calumet-revisited-on-zoom/ SUMMARY:Regional Air\, Water and Soil Pollution Discussed on Calumet Revisi ted on Zoom DESCRIPTION: \;  \; The December 2nd\, 2025 Calumet Revisited forum will offer perspectives on several ongoing  \;health-focused research efforts in the Calumet region.\n \;  \; Dr. Susan Duncan\, a rese archer with the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago\, says these studies seek to better understand regional air\, water and soil pol lution in ways that enable both community members and researchers to benef it from collaborative\, “community science" endeavors.\n \;  \;T he meeting begins via Zoom at 5 p.m. on Tuesday\, December 2. Please advis e if you wish to participate and we will send you a link on Monday\, Decem ber 1.  \;\n \;  \;A focus of the presentation will be a pilot project to establish a small-scale but comprehensive grid of low-cost air quality monitors across Chicago’s East Side community (roughly\, S. 93r d to S. 118th Street\; the Calumet River to Illinois-Indiana state line). A grid of this kind enables “hyper-local” monitoring of air pollution. \n \;  \; With such spatially and temporally precise monitoring\, accurate identification of pollution hotspots becomes possible. A tandem e nvironmental health goal of the pilot project was to investigate the relat ionship between air pollution hotspots and instances of child asthma attac ks.\n\n \;  \;A community organization partner was involved from t he beginning\, when the study design was still being refined. Once the stu dy received funding\, this partner took the lead in distributing air quali ty monitors to interested community members and following up to collect da ta.\n \;  \;The whole effort (planning\, implementation\, outcomes ) has demonstrated both the potential and the challenges inherent in doing community science in our region. Lessons learned and planned next steps w ill be discussed.\n \;  \;At the University\, Dr. Duncan works as staff scientist and Assistant Director of Scientific Communication at the Center for Innovation in Global Health (https://cgh.uchicago.edu/). The Ce nter’s mission is to “collaborate with communities locally and globall y to democratize education\, increase service learning opportunities\, and advance novel\, transdisciplinary\, and sustainable solutions to improve health and well-being while reducing global health disparities and inequit ies.” \;\n\n \;  \;Calumet Revisited has shed light on the r egion since 2013. It is jointly sponsored by the Association for the Wolf Lake Initiative (AWLI) and Calumet College of St. Joseph.\n\n[caption id=" attachment_16828" align="aligncenter" width="200"] Adult Nest photos by Da vid Gruver[/caption]\n\n \;  \;AWLI is a not-for-profit organizati on and land trust seeking to protect and enhance the thousands of acres th at comprise the Wolf Lake watershed. The watershed serves a population bas e of 3.4 million in Northwest Indiana and Southeast Chicago and suburbs.\n \nRELATED ARTICLES . . . \;\n\n\nNew Report Published about the Effect s of Data Centers On the Great Lakes\n \;  \;  \;The Hobart In diana Data Center is located closer to Lake Michigan than most folks reali ze. It’s actually 12 miles as the crow flies\, and 16 miles using a 100% waterway\, from Deep River (Hobart) to Lake Michigan. 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