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Now retired, he serves on the board of MVCC and makes beautiful “Dog Paw” knives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c929d70815512f473991808/1604690083170-54PZTTMNZYOJT52UYY61/cam-about-advisors-sean.jpg About - Sean Hopkins Sean is the Smoke Management Team Lead for WA State Department of Ecology. He does air quality regulation, monitor, forecasting and outreach for the Central Region of WA State which includes Okanogan County. His role as an advisory member is to explain the state smoke management laws to the group and offer both regulatory and non-regulatory solutions to local smoke pollution issues. Sean recently secured funding to buy back and change out old wood stoves in the Methow Valley. Ecology also pays for the local chipping events to help reduce public smoke exposure from outdoor residential burning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c929d70815512f473991808/1561708106292-N9PH1B7U47MZ0R3I72MB/cam-about-advisors-paulson.jpg About - Jason Paulsen Jason serves as Executive Director at the Methow Conservancy, and volunteers as President of Methow Valley Long Term Recovery, an organization formed after the Carlton Complex fires of 2014 to ensure that the Methow Valley community is better prepared for wildfire and other natural disasters into the future. Jason has advised the work of Methow Clean Air since its inception, and believes the Methow Valley can be a model for community education, coordination and engagement as we work to improve both air quality and landscape health in our community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c929d70815512f473991808/1604362290681-VNEF78SWRRRC39W3JJ08/cam-about-advisors-james.jpg About - Christopher James Christopher A. James advises regulators, advocates, and businesses on how to reduce greenhouse gas, criteria, and toxic pollutants to meet existing and new air standards, improve water quality, and protect consumers. James has 30 years of experience working in air quality, and has a keen interest in citizen science and helping people understand air pollution and the health effects that result from exposure to pollutants. He feels that education is essential to help people appreciate clean air and think about the ways their personal actions can improve air quality. He is also an avid cyclist and beer-drinker. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c929d70815512f473991808/1561707927456-LUIVV3U0R9N4KYJQVN47/cam-about-advisors-wooten.jpg About - George Wooten George studied microbiology at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. His role with Clean Air Methow is to be the bridge between the need of controlled fire to benefit the ecosystem and reduce the smoke production for human health. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c929d70815512f473991808/1561708003439-KG7EOQAIGRK1I6THJGEN/cam-about-advisors-super.jpg About - Lorah Super Lorah Super is the Program Director for MVCC, and a Board Supervisor for Okanogan Conservation District. She and her family live on a 100% solar powered ranch in the lower Methow where they raise a variety of produce and animals. As a survivor of the 2014 Carlton Complex that burned all around her home, Lorah spends an inordinate amount of time preparing for the next wildfire, and enjoys watching the landscape change and recover. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c929d70815512f473991808/1604362137225-WTFX3OGPIQBWJWR7GGNI/cam-about-advisors-jasmine.jpg About - Jasmine Minbashian Jasmine Minbashian is the Executive Director of Methow Valley Citizen Council. Jasmine has two decades of experience advocating for the environment. She has led successful campaigns to protect and restore forests, including the Cedar River watershed – now the largest lowland ecological preserve in the central Cascades. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c929d70815512f473991808/1604362274020-HWTNYJJSM54JPGZ490G3/cam-about-advisors-bowden.jpg About - Raleigh Bowden Raleigh Bowden is a house-call physician in the Methow Valley. She became interested in air quality in 2013 because of the effect of winter wood smoke on her patients with lung disease. Further, she noticed people continued to do outdoor burning during burn bans and realized there was not a good communication system to inform people about all aspect of woodsmoke and when burn bans were in place. She helped start Clean Air Methow to improve winter air quality and continues to contribute to the present day vision of how we can improve air quality in our Valley as climate change impacts air quality year round. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c929d70815512f473991808/1561707878753-4Z4LIC8652YJEOA39NJ1/cam-about-advisors-olson.jpg About - Craig Olson Craig is a retired Forest Biologist who worked in forest planning, inventory and monitoring. 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We had some connections with Clean Air Ambassadors and those ambassadors reached out to us. We believed having a sensor is important for the health of the children. It is extremely important to provide a safe environment for children and clean air is part of that. Wildfires are common during the summer, and we want to be able to monitor how that impacts the children outside. How does air quality impact you? Summer is the key time- it’s wildfire season. We have air filtration in the building year-round, but if the air quality is bad, we have smaller air filters to put in the classrooms. To support families, we need to operate year-round, regardless of air quality. Being outside is important for children to learn and grow. We want the kids to be outside as much as they can, but we want to keep them healthy. We follow the Department of Health and Clean Air Methow’s guidance to see how much time is safe to be outside. Children are part of the sensitive group, so we want to modify the amount of time they can be outside based on the air quality. How often do you check the purple air sensor map? During wildfire season we keep an eye on it all day. Air quality changes depending on wind and other surrounding fires, making it so that we monitor it frequently. If we hear about stagnant air, we will also check the map. We also use the map to check our sensor to ensure it is reporting correctly. What do you do with the information from the sensor? We use the information to regulate how much time the kids can spend outside. Being outside is very important for the kids’ growth and brain stimulation, so we want them to be outside as much as healthy. We also use the information to check our indoor air, making sure to ramp up the use of air filters if needed. Do you have any visions for what the future of the ambassador program will be, what do you think is most important we need to do? One thing that would be great for the school would be an age-appropriate presentation on air quality for the kids. Helping them understand air quality when they are young would be a great way to have smoke-conscious adults later in life. The kids love engaging with people and would have a lot of fun. We want the program to keep up its great work because we are really benefiting from it and are very appreciative. What do you do for fun when the air quality is bad? Personally, I love board games, especially nerdy modern strategy board games. I try to find ways to exercise indoors. I also like going outside masked for limited amounts of time, depending on the recorded air quality. For the kids, we are very lucky to have many creative materials indoors. They love to do imaginative play and full-class play. They also utilize the kitchen more, put on plays, and do more reading. 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What motivated you to become a Clean Air Ambassador? Well, because of our son Colm’s asthma, we track air quality closely. We previously tried to use our own sensor and relate it to the WA Department of Ecology’s sensor in Winthrop at the library, but it was difficult to compare because Ecology’s didn’t report real-time data. Is air quality something that impacts your life on a daily basis? Yes, we were already somewhat conscientious but then Colm had breathing problems as a baby which later we learned was asthma, and it just heightened everything. So, we're very aware of dust and fire and smoke. We have indoor air quality sensors too and watch how things like cooking affects the air quality inside. We probably track it more than your average person. Having real-time data from a sensor placed right outside our house helps a lot in knowing what might be safe for Colm to do on a given day. Plus, since there are so many sensors to look at both in the ambassador network in the valley or across the whole state it informs whether we can we go somewhere else, or can you go away for the day. For example, this morning we went for a bike ride in Mazama because the air wasn’t very good here. During wildfire season when sometimes the air quality is bad everywhere, it just helps us understand that OK, it’s time to stay indoors. The feature I like the most on the purple air displays is how it will show in colored rings around the air quality number what the quality has been in the last 24, 12, and 6 hours. You mentioned Colm has asthma, putting him in the “sensitive” to poor air quality group. Yes, Colm has asthma, and I feel like Eric and I don't technically fall into that category but, we notice it, like I get headaches when it starts to get into the orange color. Some days my eyes will burn a little bit, or I'll feel it in the back of my throat. But Colm thinks he's going to be a fire fighter when he grows up and I'm like, not with your asthma! I mean obviously some people can handle smoke more because I can’t even imagine how the fire fighters do it. What do you plan on doing with information from the sensor in the future? It’ll be interesting through the winter to watch the numbers because we are typically above the inversions, but I wonder if our air quality is a lot better or just somewhat. Having the sensor just helps to know because it seems like before we were guessing and I feel like sometimes your nose doesn't always match up - sometimes you just get used to the smoke smell, sometimes it's super sensitive. I like having the sensor here to match a reading and number to what I’m experiencing. We’re so glad to have you as part of this citizen science project and network of ambassadors! Any visions for the future of the ambassador program? I think it's fantastic. It would be helpful to incorporate elevations of each of the sensors on the purple air map. Getting the word out so people can begin to pay attention to the sensors close to where they live, and work is great. It would also be nice to get more up the Chewuch, maybe like Cub Creek. On Studhorse, we get everything coming down both valleys and I think yesterday if there had been one up somewhere up the Chewuch we would have seen that the smoke was coming down the Chewuch valley because Mazama was so clear and we were so red (i.e. unhealthy air quality). and then I hope we could just get more. 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