OZONE SMOG
GROUND LEVEL OZONE POLLUTION Is your head in the clouds when it comes to air quality issues? No problem! Just click on these links to learn about all the air quality basics. Find links to websites, games and activities to get you started.
Ozone, what it is, how it is formed and its effects on our air quality and health.
Grades 7-12.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/ChemistrySunlight/
Smog City - an interactive air pollution simulator that shows how your choices, environmental factors, and land use contribute to air pollution. (Grades 6-12)
http://www.smogcity.com/welcome.htm
Breathing easy about new air pollution standards: A case study. Grades 6-12.
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/breathing/breathing.htm
Advanced Ozone Information & Online Data Resources
Ground level ozone is believed to be the most ubiquitous air pollutant and the cause of much injury to the biosphere - find out how can you study ozone air pollutants.
http://pathfinderscience.net/ozone/
Air Pollution: What's the Solution? Ozone Monitoring. Grades 6-12.
http://www.k12science.org/curriculum/airproj/index.html
DEP's Ozone Information web pages. Check out today's hourly air quality concentrations recorded from a number of ozone and particulate matter monitoring stations across the State. Select a monitoring station or a region on the map to view detailed ozone or particulate matter data for each station.
http://www.state.me.us/dep/air/ozone/currentdata/index.html
DEP's Historical Ozone Data
http://www.maine.gov/dep/air/ozone/historical/
EPA's Ozone Mapping web site - check out today's forecast and take a regional look at what's happening in the outdoor (ambient) air today.
http://www.epa.gov/airnow/ozone.html
FIA - an ozone biomonitoring program: The USDA Forest Service's - Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) uses biomonitoring to monitor the potential impact of tropospheric ozone (smog) on forests. Learn how it's done, what kinds of leaf injury to look for and create maps of visible ozone injury found on bioindicator species using annual data collected from field plots.
http://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/fia/topics/ozone/default.asp
