We have developed a technique to measure the history of pollution exposure levels in the environment based upon the introduction of a time-clock to glacial, lacustrine, and marine sediments. The technique involves the use of 210 Pb, a radioactive member of the 238 U series, which decays with a half-life of 22 yr. This lead isotope enters surface waters unsupported by its parents in the U-238 se...

Real-time control (RTC) of urban drainage systems has been proven useful as a means to reduce pollution by combined sewer overflow discharges. So far, RTC has been investigated mainly with a sole focus on water quantity aspects. However, as measurement techniques for pollution of wastewater are advancing, pollution-based RTC might be of increasing interest. For example, turbidity data sets from...

Air quality monitoring is extremely important as air pollution has a direct impact on human health. In this paper we introduce a low-power and low-cost mobile sensing system for participatory air quality monitoring. In contrast to traditional stationary air pollution monitoring stations, we present the design, implementation, and evaluation of GasMobile, a small and portable measurement system ...

Issues in developing measures of pollution prevention at the process-level and facility-level are reviewed, based on existing literature. Pollution prevention can be measured based on changes in waste or changes in materials use. The measurement can be further be adjusted to account for changes in production or may be left as an absolute measure, but choosing an accurate index may be difficult....