The nonprofit Public Laboratory was explicitly created to develop tools that any one can use to monitor environmental issues.

(image of super expensive env. monitoring tool that only helps industry)
**Conventional Environmental Monitoring tools are designed for Industry**


**History of Citizen Envionrmental Monitoring**
Civic Science began about 13 years ago . . . it's growing . . . . and it depends on accessible monitoring tools for nonexperts . . . 

(image of a tool developed to address a symptom not the toxicology)
**Tools are often developed around symptoms not toxicology.**
Explanation . . . . . 

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