Mission and History

At Berkeley Air Monitoring Group, our mission is to protect global health and climate by providing high quality, scientific monitoring and evaluation of appropriate household energy technologies and approaches for developing countries.

Berkeley Air Monitoring Group fills the need for rigorous scientific evaluation of initiatives designed to improve health and well being through improved household stoves, fuels, and education. We provide the expertise and skills required to critically assess the effects of household energy practices on indoor air pollution and health, greenhouse gas emissions (carbon credit generation), household fuel use, socioeconomic indicators and time-activity patterns, and technology adoption and usage.

Berkeley Air's services include study design, field sampling, data analysis, report writing, presentation and training.

Our firm has close ties to the University of California, Berkeley, and builds directly on the household energy monitoring and evaluation methods developed and piloted by the Kirk Smith Research Group (and colleagues) between 2001 and 2005 and further refined, until 2007, by the Center for Entrepreneurship in International Health and Development (CEIHD) with support and funding from the Shell Foundation.

Berkeley Air will continue to partner with researchers at the University of California as well as other premier institutions, such as the WHO, US EPA, Colorado State University and Sri Ramachandra University, to offer the most effective monitoring approaches, methodologies, and instruments.