UCLA has sufficient air quality measuring technology, said Administrative Vice Chancellor Michael Beck in a campus-wide town hall meeting Thursday. The university’s air quality status – which Beck said was used for making decisions on campus operations – is available publicly on a university website.

“We do have on-campus sensors. We utilize the EPA’s (Environmental Protection Agency) now-cast methodology, which is developed specifically for smoke incidents, and we use the decision matrix that was developed for the University of California for wildfire smokes,” he said.