Add to Calendar   Saturday, April 25, 2026 1:30 PM Saturday, April 25, 2026 3:30 PM ET Smell Safari: Field-Based Tools for Mapping and Communicating Human Smellscapes ACHEMS aYaMRExkLzQZmPlsLmNx65599
Smell Safari: Field-Based Tools for Mapping and Communicating Human Smellscapes
  Saturday, April 25, 2026           1:30 PM - 3:30 PM ET
 


Moderator
Robert Pellegrino and Emily Mayhew
Description

To link odor exposure to human well-being (Bratman et al. 2024), track landscape-scale change (e.g., pollution effects; Quercia et al. 2015), and anchor chemosensory neuroscience in real-world odor statistics (Wachowiak et al. 2025), researchers must move beyond the laboratory and conduct controlled field studies. The proposed workshop will introduce and evaluate new methodologies for capturing, quantifying, and communicating the olfactory dimension of outdoor environments, an emerging frontier for chemosensory science. Three complementary talks will move from personal odor logging, to art-based engagement, to quantitative odor measurement, and finally to an on-site “Smell Safari” around the new AChemS venue in St. Pete, Florida. Collectively, the workshop will (i) highlight mobile and crowd-sourced approaches that scale olfactory research beyond the laboratory, (ii) demonstrate how trans-disciplinary collaborations with the arts and environmental humanities can broaden public awareness of smell, and (iii) provide attendees with an overview of sensory and psychophysical methods used in the laboratory and how they can be translated to field protocols to build georeferenced “smellscape” datasets. Lastly, the workshop will end with an interactive smell walk activity to explore and tag odors in the new St. Pete conference environment using the tools and techniques discussed. By centering smell in real-world contexts, the workshop will advance discussion on how human olfaction shapes well-being while showcasing new approaches to collecting data and capturing naturalistic smellscapes. It will also be fun! As the workshop is designed to engage trainees through both junior-investigator presentations and hands-on data collection during the concluding indoor / outdoor exercise.


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Presentations
1:30 SMELLIT MOBILE APP AND ODOR AWARENESS
Barr Herrnstadt. Weizmann Institute of Science
1:55 USING ART AND GEOGRAPHY TO MAP OLFACTORY PUBLIC SPACES
Jennifer Kitson. Rowan University
2:20 COLLECTING RELIABLE DATA TO MAP ODOR SPACES
Emily Mayhew. Michigan State University
2:45 GUIDED SMELL SAFARI TO QUANTIFY A NEW ACHEMS SMELLSCAPE
Emily Mayhew1, Robert Pellegrino2. 1Michigan State University  2Monell Chemical Senses Center