Institute at Brown for Environment and Society

Brown’s Community Noise Lab — led by Erica Walker, an IBES affiliate and Catalyst Research Awardee at the School of Public Health — and Tougaloo College have installed a high-tech air quality monitoring station on Tougaloo’s campus in Mississippi.

Erica Walker, an IBES Faculty Affiliate and Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, discussed her new research project, for which students in Mississippi will be trained to collect air quality, noise, and light pollution measurements.

Assistant Professor of Epidemiology Erica Walker, an IBES affiliate faculty member, offered commentary on the public health impact of pellet mills in the American South, which are 50% more likely to be located in communities with a high proportion of poor and nonwhite residents.

IBES affiliate and Catalyst Research Award recipient Erica Walker, an assistant professor of epidemiology, was interviewed about air quality reports from her Community Noise Lab's environmental monitoring research.

IBES affiliate Erica Walker, an assistant professor of epidemiology and founder of the Community Noise Lab at Brown’s School of Public Health, was interviewed about her noise pollution research.

The Community Noise Lab, led by IBES affiliate Erica Walker in the School of Public Health, recently launched a rotating environmental monitoring network to measure a variety of pollutants, meteorological conditions, and noise levels in the Southern United States.