4 Outreach (Heading A)
Accessibility and transparency are vital to establishing trust in an outreach effort.
The website allows the RadWatch activities to scale accessibility, by providing data
in context about the naturally radioactive world we are living in. The strongest
context for the RAM system is in the long time history over which we are tracking
isotopes. In the future, a computed NORM dose-rate-variance could be used as an
unavoidable dose band for putting excess dose risk in perspective. Transparency is
imposed by the immediacy with which results are published, while maintaining
good quality control.
Fig. 7 [Middle] Net peak counts rate for 1 week. The natural background lines vary by as much as
factors of 25. Observation of this variance is considerable. Dashed black lines indicate the filter
exchange times. [Top and bottom] Meteorological data collected from the weather station just above
the monitor. Currently the air monitor is down for upgrades to allow for deduction of weather trends
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Accessibility and transparency are vital to establishing trust in an outreach effort.
The website allows the RadWatch activities to scale accessibility, by providing data
in context about the naturally radioactive world we are living in. The strongest
context for the RAM system is in the long time history over which we are tracking
isotopes. In the future, a computed NORM dose-rate-variance could be used as an
unavoidable dose band for putting excess dose risk in perspective. Transparency is
imposed by the immediacy with which results are published, while maintaining
good quality control.
Fig. 7 [Middle] Net peak counts rate for 1 week. The natural background lines vary by as much as
factors of 25. Observation of this variance is considerable. Dashed black lines indicate the filter
exchange times. [Top and bottom] Meteorological data collected from the weather station just above
the monitor. Currently the air monitor is down for upgrades to allow for deduction of weather trends
322
R. Pavlovsky