08 Oct Air Quality Management Discussion of key words and concepts

Air Quality Management

Discussion of key words and concepts

It is important to use key words and concepts clearly and applicably.  Feel free to share a key word or concept you have learned in air quality management or discuss the following keywords, which are important in understanding possible responses and strategies for air pollution management:

Policies

Legislation

Regulations

Strategies

Tactics

Please make 1-2 short sentences to demonstrate how you can use these terms in appropriate context.  See if you can use all five of these key terms in context to a situation. As always, you are expected to read what others have said and gently correct or add to the learning of this classroom in other ways.

DQ2 Responses and strategies for air pollution management

What have you seen about responses and strategies to manage air pollution, particularly in the cases you viewed this week?  Please share thoughts about the case that most struck you and what strategies were used for that case.  Then share what the priority pollutant is in the hometown or city you have chosen to report on for your final assessment and the environmental, engineering, and economic factors that should inform your strategy.  Remember that your outline for your final assessment is due this week, so this is a great place to share what you have been finding out about your hometown or location that you are investigating for your final assessment.

How does your strategy compare to the strategies used in L.A., Beijing, and Atlanta that Dr. Bryan N. Duncan, deputy project scientist for the Aura Mission at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center?

In the first part of this discussion, we examined strategies at the program level. With a bachelor’s degree, you will most likely start at the sampling and analysis level.  In this course, we try to provide a comprehensive coverage so that you know both the details of what needs to get done and overall strategies.  Clearly, no matter what level of management, cost analysis is important.

Let’s take the scenario of you working in a lab that routinely analyzes arsenic (As). Your lab uses inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectroscopy, EPA method 6010:

http://legismex.mty.itesm.mx/secc_inter/SW-846/6010a.pdf

Your boss asks you to attend a seminar to learn about different analytical methods and you see this graph below as part of the presentation:

What does this graph tell you about the various methods and what will you do with this graph to impress your boss about your critical thinking abilities?

DQ3 What do the various aspects of air quality management mean to you? What do you think are your strengths and what are your weaknesses in the areas of air quality management?

We have been using the graphics from https://www.gjesm.net/article_20581.html to think about the major considerations for managing air quality.

Looking at this figure, explain the area that you have the greatest strength.  For example, if you are really good in science, perhaps you are great at explaining all the factors that determine the state of air quality.  My weakness is in determining optimal policies – simply because optimal policies occur only when there is clear communications and trust between people.  And trust is a difficult thing to earn these days.

How would you explain the essence of the air quality management figure above?  Do you have another figure that you think better represents air quality management?  If so, please share and explain why you think the figure you have chosen better represents air quality management.

As always, read what others have written and add to the discussion