Queens College


 

Instrument Mentors

Drew Gentner

Yale University

Site PI

Queens College
Taekyu Joo

Yale University

Postdoc

Queens College
Tori Hass-Mitchell

Yale University

Graduate Student

Queens College
Mitchell Rogers

Yale University

Graduate Student

Queens College

The Queens College (QC) site is an urban location approximately 16 km east of Manhattan, New York City near two highways and two major airports. The site was established in 1978 to monitor ozone and sulfur dioxide and has been operated and maintained by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYS DEC). The site was renovated and reopened in 2001 for an intensive air pollution study that was coordinated with the State University of New York – University of Albany – Atmospheric Sciences Research Center. In September 2006, the site was redesigned and expanded into a newly constructed building on the Queens College campus. This site is one of three National Core Network (NCore) sites in New York State and is part of the Photochemical Assessment Monitoring Stations (PAMS) network. This site is being utilized for the New York City Community Air Survey (NYCCAS) as part of the PlaNYC initiative. In addition to the ASCENT instrumentation, this Queens College site also has a suite of instruments listed in the table below that measure a wide range of pollutants.
 

Complementary Measurements 

Parameter

Instrument

Sampling Frequency

Network

CO

Thermo Scientific 48i-TLE

Continuous

 

NO/NO2/NOx

Thermo Scientific 42i-TL

Continuous

 

NOy

Thermo Scientific 42i-Y

Continuous

 

O3

Teledyne API T400

Continuous

 

SO2

Thermo Scientific 43i TLE

Continuous

 

PM2.5, PMcoarse, PM10

Thermo Scientific 1405, Teledyne T640

Continuous

 

PM2.5

Thermo Scientific Partisol 2025i

Every 3 days

 

PM2.5 Carbon

URG 3000

Every 3 days

 

PM2.5 Speciation

Met One Super SASS

Every 3 days

 

PM10

Thermo Scientific Partisol 2025i

Every 6 days

 

PM Carbon

Sunset Laboratory

Semi-continuous

 

PM Sulfate

Thermo Scientific 5020i

Semi-continuous

 

Carbonyls

DNPH Cartridge

Every 6 days

 

Ultrafine

TSI 3783

Continuous

 

Particle Count

TSI 3031

Continuous