While anyone may join Public Lab and take part in developing and applying do-it-yourself pollution monitoring techniques, the Public Lab non-profit also supports fellowships that emphasize peer production projects working on community environmental health issues.  Fellowships activities can include:

* Researching and publishing on methods for accessible community science monitoring techniques. 
* Developing, incubating and distributing hardware and software research tools (and associated methodology) that are low cost, easy to use, and modifiable. </br>
* Collectively applying these tools in research and monitoring projects in particular locales. </br>
* Advocating for community-identified goals and objectives by sharing the resulting data and knowledge with peers, regulatory agencies, press, and other stakeholders. </br>

###About Fellowship Trios
Fellowship trios are financially supported collaborations hosted and facilitated by Public Lab. They advance the impact of community science on critical environmental health topics, such as particulate air pollution, lead pollution in soil and water, and pipeline monitoring. 
 
Fellowship Trio Goals: 

Short term: to document current efforts in monitoring, organizing, and advocating

Medium term: to advance monitoring tools and organizing and advocacy methods

Long term: to develop network relationships among science organizations, hardware projects & communities, and frontline communities to advance the environmental justice movement
 

 
###Current Fellowships

- **[Katie Gradowski](https://publiclab.org/profile/kgradow1)**: [Community Technology Fellow](https://publiclab.org/notes/joyofsoy/01-30-2020/fellowship-posting-community-technology-fellow)</br>
Through a joint fellowship being offered by Public Lab and the Fair Tech Collective, the Fellow will do research to update and archive the [bucket air sampler](https://grist.org/article/the19/). The Fellow will be responsible for writing and editing an updated technical and organizing manual for communities who want to use the bucket. To help ensure the sustainability of the bucket, the Fellow will identify labs that can provide reliable, affordable air sample analysis and communicate with stakeholders about the feasibility and organization of a potential network of bucket trainers.



###Other Fellows:
- **[Nick Shapiro](http://publiclab.org/profile/nshapiro)**: Open Air 



###Past Fellows:

- **[Mo Langmuir](https://publiclab.org/profile/molangmuir10)**: [Community Mapping Fellow](https://publiclab.org/notes/stevie/03-15-2019/community-mapping-fellowship)
- **[Sairam Dhandapani](https://publiclab.org/profile/silentsairam)**: [Community Mapping Fellow](https://publiclab.org/notes/stevie/03-15-2019/community-mapping-fellowship)
- **[Alahna Moore](https://publiclab.org/profile/a1ahna)**: [Oil and Gas Accountability](https://publiclab.org/notes/stevie/09-05-2018/community-science-oil-and-gas-fellowship)
- **[Lemmy Kamau](https://publiclab.org/profile/kamau19)**: [Frac Sand Sentinel](https://publiclab.org/notes/stevie/12-10-2018/frac-sand-sentinel-fellowship)
- **[Danielle Stevenson](https://publiclab.org/profile/DanielleS)**: [Community Science Soil Testing ](https://publiclab.org/notes/stevie/12-07-2018/community-science-soil-testing-fellowship)
- **[Ann Chen](https://publiclab.org/profile/ann)**: [DIY Oil Testing Narratives](http://publiclab.org/notes/klie/09-14-2015/homebrew-fellowship-application-diy-oil-testing-narratives)
- **[Matej Vakula](https://publiclab.org/profile/Matej)**: [Oil Sheen Testing Fellowship](http://publiclab.org/notes/klie/07-13-2015/sprint-fellowship-application-public-lab-oil-sheen-testing)
- **[Sreyantha Chary](http://publiclab.org/profile/Sreyanth)**: Spectral Workbench macros and recipes
- **[Will Macfarlane](https://publiclab.org/profile/wmacfarl)**: [Hardware fellow, Oil & Gas](https://publiclab.org/notes/stevie/08-06-2019/seeking-hardware-fellow-for-oil-gas-water-fellowship-trio)
- **[Yagiz Sutcu](http://publiclab.org/profile/ygzstc)**: Public Lab beta Oil Testing Kit</br>
- **[Don Blair](http://publiclab.org/profile/donblair)**: Open Water Fellow
- **[Read Holman](https://publiclab.org/profile/read_holman)**: [Lead Monitoring Network ](https://publiclab.org/wiki/the-lead-data-collaborative-overview)
- **[Rollin Black](https://publiclab.org/profile/rollinrenola)**: [Community Fellow, Oil & Gas Industry](https://publiclab.org/notes/stevie/08-06-2019/seeking-community-fellow-for-oil-gas-water-fellowship-trio)

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