Environmental Research Group
Who's Who in ERG? - Louise Mittal
Louise Mittal
Senior Air Quality Analyst
Environmental Research Group
King's College London
Franklin-Wilkins Building
150 Stamford Street
London
SE1 9NH
Tel: 020 7848 4006
Fax: 020 7848 4045
Email: louise.mittal@kcl.ac.uk
Role
I joined the monitoring team at ERG in 2004 after returning from 5 months voluntary work measuring the gas emissions of Kilauea Volcano
in Hawaii. Although the setting is somewhat different, the measurement techniques and equipment maintenance principles share similarities
with those used for measuring air quality in London. Before my work in Hawaii,
I completed an MSc in Geochemistry at the University of Leeds and a BSc in Geology at the University of Birmingham.
In addition to my share of the core operational tasks of the monitoring team, such as carrying out the Duty Officer role, data validation
and ratification and monitoring site operation, I am responsible for arranging the six monthly QAQC site audit programme through the
National Physical Laboratory (NPL), dealing with matters related to King’s managed sites affiliated to the AURN and sending quarterly
reports for these sites to Defra.
I am a member of the air quality forecasting team; we provide daily forecasts to Local Authorities in London, Sussex, Hertfordshire and
Bedfordshire and Hampshire. Some of these forecasts are used for local AirAlert services and the forecasting team also provides detailed
notifications of elevated pollution events.
I have been involved with the production of the two latest LAQN annual reports and I am currently working on writing up the results of
recently introduced tests of the collection efficiency of site sampling systems carried out by NPL during QAQC audits.
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