Listed below are links to web pages that are resources for students examining air quality topics, especially on ozone (O3), volatile organic hydrocarbons (VOCs),  VOCs such as isoprene, and on urban heat islands.  One of the best resources for students and teachers alike are the pages on air quality and climate under the Horizons Workshop umbrella of Dr. Linda George at Portland State University:  http://www.horizons.pdx.edu/~horizons/index1.html.  Horizons workshops introduce teachers and students to climate and atmospheric processes and issues.  Faculty, teacher, and student work is housed under the "Research" and the "Education" sidebar links.

Air Quality and the Atmosphere:
 

• http://www.orst.edu/instruction/bi301/tropozon.htm  AIR QUALITY: FOCUS ON TROPOSPHERIC OZONE.      Dr. Patricia Muir's Biology 301 page with general background about ozone and ozone-casuging factors...from Oregon State.
• http://chem.leeds.ac.uk/airsite/home.html  AirSite Atmospheric page from the Leed's group and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
• http://chem.leeds.ac.uk/Atmospheric/Field/field.html  The Leeds Atmospheric Research Group School of Chemistry/Environment Centre.
• http://www.airnet-us.org/    A consortium of Northeast schools that share an air quality monitoring curriculum.
• http://www.airnet-us.org/tech.htm  AirNet Science Curriculum--Tools and Techniques. This page goes into the chemical and environmental parameters and protocols that are used by schools in the consortium.  In particular, it contains information, instructions and protocols  for a leaf-yeast curriculum and a LICHEN survey curriculum (see below).
• http://www.nescaum.org/      Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM).  This site contains links to an air report library and air pollution maps and data.

• http://www.airnet-us.org/tech.htm  AirNet Science Curriculum--Tools and Techniques. This page includes instructions and forms for a LICHEN survey curriculum.
• http://www.cciw.ca/eman-temp/research/protocols/lichen/part7.html   Methodology for Volunteer/School monitoring projects using LICHENS.   This link from the AirNet pages provides a protocol for  school children and volunteers to collect lichen samples and a sample 5-day training strategy.
• http://www.cciw.ca/eman-temp/research/protocols/lichen/part2.html    Lichens on the Internet. A page of internet lichen resources, including links for information on lichens as bioindicators, lichen mapping, lichen keys....

• ftp://airsite.unc.edu/pdfs/ese_unc/jeffries/meetings/frontiers.pdf  Atmospheric Photochemistry:  The formation of Tropospheric Ozone from VOCs and NOx.  Dr. Harvey Jeffries (University of North Carolina) has made a a slide presentation of the formation of ozone available for download at this site.edited by Hanwant B. Singh.  This pdf file (which required the free Acrobat Reader program to read) has an excellent explanation of atmospheric processes involving ozone, including the involvement of different organic, hydroxyl, and peroxyl radicals.

Nitrogen oxide:

• See again       ftp://airsite.unc.edu/pdfs/ese_unc/jeffries/meetings/frontiers.pdf  Atmospheric Photochemistry:  The formation of Tropospheric Ozone from VOCs and NOx.

• http://www.sciencenews.org/sn_arc97/6_28_97/Fob1.htm  Industries Tally Air Pollution Poorly by Janet Raloff in Science News online discusses some of the problems of an inaccurate volatile organic hydrocarbon inventory.
• http://chem.leeds.ac.uk/Atmospheric/Field/voc.html describes their analysis of Volatile Organic Hydrocarbons.

Isoprenes and related hydrocarbons:
 

• http://www.ecsel.psu.edu/~snathan/jb/JB_6Alkene/sld009.htm  which highlights natural isoprene reactions was produced by Gita Sathianathan for student pages at     Pennsylvanic State University. The entire organic Powerpoint"organic book is at http://www.ecsel.psu.edu/~snathan/jb/
• http://chem.leeds.ac.uk/Atmospheric/Field/biogenic.html    Isoprene and Monoterpenes.  The Leed group's introduction page to production of isoprene and monoterpenes by plants.
• ftp://airsite.unc.edu/pdfs/ese_unc/jeffries/meetings/otagisop.pdf      Dr. Jeffries PowerPoint presentation on a model interrelating isoprenes and ozone are available for downloading.
• http://www.atdd.noaa.gov/isoprene/isoprene.htm        Isoprene Studies.  A site from NOAA on forest emissions of isoprenes.

• http://eetd.lbl.gov/HeatIsland/  Heat Island Group homepage.  From the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Environmental Energy Technologies Division (http://eetd.lbl.gov/).  This site has full background pages on Air Quality, High Temperatures, Cool Roofs, Cool Pavements, Vegetations, and Energy Use related to Urban Heat Island temperatures.

• http://eetd.lbl.gov/HeatIsland/PUBS/PAINTING/     Painting the Town White-and Green Results and information origianlly published in the MIT Technology Review (February/March 1997) from the Heat Island Group.  It specifically studies what things a city could do to reduce the Urban Heat Island effect, such as the color of buildings and roof tops.

• www.vernier.com     Vernier sells probeware and software designed for use by students.
• http://www.paxana.com/ PAX Analytics makes ACCESS Environmental Monitoring Systems in use for qir quality monitoring at several Eaastern school examining air quality. A commercial site.

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