Air Quality AtSc 565 Fall 2025
(Class Number 31505, Tuesday/Thursday 2:00-3:15, Clifford Hall
368)
Overview
The syllabus describes the requirements and procedures for Air
Quality (AtSc 565) class. Students are responsible for knowing class
syllabus material; hence, please read the syllabus carefully. Any
changes will be announced through email to your University of North
Dakota (UND) Blackboard site. Students are responsible for keeping
up to date with class material. Continued enrollment in the course
is your implicit agreement to abide by the class requirements. The
black board site will be used for taking quizzes, exams, and for
grade book; while, the Websites will be used to distribute link,
videos and class session recorded via zoom.
Class Links
Class Syllabus (url,
pdf)
Zoom Class Link
Blackboard
Site (AtSc 565: Air Quality - Fall 2025)
Air
Quality by Ashok Kumar
Air-Borne:
The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe
Modeling
Infection Risk from Indoor Aerosol Exposure to
SARS-CoV-2 Tools Summary
Tools Links
COVID-19
Aerosol Transmission Estimator
Harvard-University
of Colorado Boulder Portable Air Cleaner Calculator for
Schools
Safeairspaces aerosol
risk estimation platform
Fate
and Transport of Indoor Microbiological Aerosols (FaTIMA)
From NIST
FaTIMA
Web Tool
ViPER
- Virus Particle Exposure in Residences from NIST
Weather Links
Meteorological
Observational Trailer (MetTrailer)
In-the-literature Links
2025/09/04
- The
impact of retrofitted ventilation approaches on long-range
airborne infection risk for lecture room environments: design
stage methodology and application
2025/09/04 - Case
studies using a simple airborne infection risk calculator to
minimize COVID-19 infection risk: Common approaches and challenges
In-the-news Links
2025/08/28 - ChatGPT's
New Study Mode
Is Designed To
Help You
Learn, Not
Just Give
Answers
2025/08/28
- One
of the biggest
microplastic
pollution
sources isn't
straws or
grocery bags.
It's your
tires,
PHYS.ORG
Reviewed Audio and Videos
- New
Zealand Scientific Ballooning
- Immersion
Freezing: How We Study It
- The
pH Scale (animation)
2025
Schedule (UND Clifford Hall 368, 2:00 - 3:15p.m. CST)
August 26, Tuesday [Recording]
Discussion: Introduction (Website)
Discussion: Class Overview (Topics: Aerosols, Ozone, Lead,
Bio-aerosols, Micro-plastics)
Discussion: Class Syllabus [pdf]
Student Task - Review Syllabus
August 28, Thursday [Recording]
Assignment: Introduction (Complete in Class)
Lecture: Air Quality Health Effects [odp, pdf]
In-the-news -
ChatGPT's
New Study Mode
Is Designed To
Help You
Learn, Not
Just Give
Answers
In-the-news
- One
of the biggest
microplastic
pollution
sources isn't
straws or
grocery bags.
It's your
tires,
PHYS.ORG
Student Task: Turn in Introduction Assignment
Student Task - Read Chapter 1 of Air Quality by Askoh Kuma.
Take Blackboard quiz by end of day on Tuesday September 2.
September 2, Tuesday [Recording Not Available]
Discussion: Overnight Precipitation Event, 5-10 Duration
Lecture: Atmospheric Composition Weather Brief [odp, pdf]
Student Task - Read Pope Et Al., 2002 (Pope, C. A., R. T.
Burnett, M. J. Thun, E. E. Calle, D. Krewski, K. Ito, and G. D.
Thurston, 2002: Lung Cancer, Cardiopulmonary Mortality, and
Long-term Exposure to Fine Particulate Air Pollution. JAMA, 287,
1132–1141, https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.287.9.1132.) paper.
Take Blackboard quiz by end of day on Tuesday September 9.
September 4, Thursday [Recording]
In-the-literature - The
impact of retrofitted ventilation approaches on long-range
airborne infection risk for lecture room environments: design
stage methodology and application
In-the-literature - Case
studies using a simple airborne infection risk calculator to
minimize COVID-19 infection risk: Common approaches and challenges
Discussion - Tools for determine Room's Microbiological
Aerosols
Demonstration - PCASP [Wiki]
Lecture: Aerosols [odp, pdf]
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