Our Purpose

Our mission is to help Indigenous, remote, and rural communities track and detect smoke exposure from wildfires and woodfires. Smoke exposure data is often limited in rural and remote areas as there are few or no air quality monitoring stations. We provide historical and forecasted smoke exposure data for 700 rural and Indigenous communities across Canada.

Our team is committed to advancing reconciliation by addressing this gap and ensuring Indigenous communities can access reliable data to make informed health decisions. We are also committed to supporting Indigenous language revitalization and will work with Indigenous communities on translations.

Our Partnership

SmoKE is a collaborative project led by Health Canada, the Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium (CANUE), the Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER), the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC), and Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC).

We aim to leverage new geospatial data and information on wildfire smoke and wood smoke exposure to support community-level adoption of effective interventions to mitigate the health impacts of smoke from wildfires and wood heating.

Our Locations

Our team is across Turtle Island, on the traditional and treaty territories of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Peoples. We are grateful to live, work, and play in these territories.