The North Carolina Environmental Justice Network (NCEJN) invites you to our first-ever Spidey Sens-r participatory air monitoring effort! Spidey Sens-r is a community science project that works by collecting dust that settles on funnel weaver spider webs. Help us monitor the air quality in your community by collecting spider webs with us at our sampling event in Goldsboro.

NCEJN is co-hosting this community sampling event with Down East Coal Ash Environmental and Social Justice Coalition. Down East will share concerns about current sources of air pollution in Greenville. Then we will use Spidey Sens-r to help measure and address them. 

“Spidey Sens-r” is a network of air quality monitors using spider webs. We will learn how to identify and collect funnel webs, log coordinates, and send them to our lab to be tested for metals. After a few demonstrations, we will go out into the community and collect these webs together. With spider webs as bioindicators, we can detect differences in air quality at the neighborhood level. 

We need to amplify community-controlled monitoring to set air quality standards that center the most impacted people. This new monitoring network will function as an information source for advocacy to help prevent further cumulative impacts on impacted communities.

Tentative Agenda
9:00 - 9:15 AM       Welcome and Registration
9:15 - 9:25 AM       Spidey Sens-r Project overview
9:25 - 10:10 AM     Web sampling training
10:10 - 1:00 PM     Community web sampling
1:00 - 2:00 PM       Lunch and closing

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Down East Coal Ash Environmental and Social Justice Coalition is dedicated to  protecting the environment and advocating for  the   most frequently black, brown and poor white communities in eastern North Carolina that have been relocated to these toxic living situations largely as a result of corporate greed, corporate bulling   and weak regulatory oversight; we are committed to fighting for Climate justice, ensuring Community restoration and community resilience.

North Carolina Environmental Justice Network (NCEJN) is a grassroots, people of color-led coalition of community organizations and their supporters who work with low income communities and people of color on issues of climate, environmental, racial, and social injustice.