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Smoke Sense Study: A Citizen Science Project Using a Mobile App

Alert
Attention Smoke Sense Users

Starting on December 8, 2024, the Smoke Sense app will be unavailable for use. Please visit AirNow for the latest wildfire smoke and air quality information.

Though we aren’t sure when the next version of Smoke Sense will be available, please note that it will be down through Summer 2025. For information on keeping yourself healthy and your families safe in the event of a wildfire near you, please explore these resources:

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Smoke Sense is a crowdsourcing, citizen science research project developed by EPA researchers focused on increasing public awareness and engagement related to wildfire smoke health risks. Specifically, EPA wants to understand the extent that exposure to wildland fire smoke affects health and productivity, discover what steps people are willing to take to reduce their exposure, and develop health risk communication strategies that improve public health when there is wildfire smoke.

For Smoke Sense related questions, please leave us an eComment. 

Publications

Journal Articles

Knowing Your Audience: A Typology of Smoke Sense Participants to Inform Wildfire Smoke Health Risk Communication

Peer-reviewed article published by Frontiers, 05 May 2020

Scaling Up: Citizen Science Engagement and Impacts Beyond the Individual

Peer-reviewed article published by Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 07 Jan 2020

Smoke Sense Initiative Leverages Citizen Science to Address the Growing Wildfire‐Related Public Health Problem

Peer-reviewed article published by GeoHealth, 20 Nov 2019

Presentations

EPA’s Smoke Sense: A Citizen Science Project Using a Mobile App, Webinar hosted by the National Environmental Health Association (Sept 2021)

Newsletter Stories

Smoke Sense Adds Spanish-Speaking Version to Reach Those Impacted by Wildfire Smoke - Science Matters Story

A Conversation with the Lead Investigator

Blogs

Blog: Wildfire Smoke Resilience Resources from the EPA

Blog: Smoke Sense App Alerts Public About Wildland Fire Smoke Risks - Published by National Association of County and City Health Officials

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