GEMM symposium brings together researchers, community partners, and industry to advance environmental sensing and data for impact
The GEMM I-CapstoneTeam presented their project, 'The Emission Mission', at the Futures Cities I-Capstone Symposium on March 26, 2025. The team developed a data network of affordable air monitoring sensors on campus to investigate localized air monitoring in growing urban populations.
GEMM is partnering with Livable Cities, a Canadian-owned and operated clean technology company, to install outdoor Particulate Matter Air Quality sensors on campus. The sensors are part of a demonstration air monitoring network developed by a Future Cities Institute Interdisciplinary-Capstone student group.
GEMM is the receipiant of a 2024 Sustainability Action Fund Grant to install a green house gas and air quality monitoring device to measure CO2, NO, NO2, O3, CO and PM2.5 in real-time. The data will be publicly available and can be used to increase visibility of the impact of air quality on climate and health or allow deeper engagement with climate data through student projects and research.
A one-day interdisciplinary workshop was held on Oct. 1st 2024, hosted by the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, for scientists to identify challenges measuring the environment and explore ways sensing technologies can close those gaps.
Optica-AGU announces the expansion of the GEMM initiative, welcoming the University of Waterloo and the Mexican Photonics Cluster