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
Short
Course on Introduction to Air Pollution Modelling
(11-13 November 2025)
Ozonesonde
Wiki
CORDS Link
Grafana
PM10 Clifford Hall Dashboard Username UND,
Password N555DS
EPA
Air Data: Air Quality Data Collected at Outdoor Monitors
Across the US
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
2025/09/11 - Scientists
Track Lightning “Pollution” in Real Time Using NASA Satellite
2025/09/23 - Heavily polluted Tijuana River drives
regional air quality crisis
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
2025/10/23 - New
Delhi
pollution hits
five-year high
Reviewed Audio and Videos
2025/09/09 - Pi
Cloud Chamber Videos
2025/09/23 - Jenna
Post - 2025/09/18: Filter Change at Grand Forks Airport
2025/10/16 - 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 16.
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] Up to Slide 5
September 9, Tuesday [Recording]
Lecture: Aerosols [odp, pdf] Continue from
Slide 5 to Slide 12
Student Task: Please Attend FAST
Research Session on 12:00-12:45 on Wednesday September 10 in
Robin 404.
Student Task: Complete Pope Et Al., 2002 Blackboard quiz by
end of day on Tuesday, September 16.
Student Task: Read Chapter 5
of Atmospheric Aerosols. Complete quiz by end of day on
Tuesday, September 16.
Video: Pi
Cloud Chamber Videos
September 11, Tuesday [Recording]
In-the-news: Scientists
Track Lightning “Pollution” in Real Time Using NASA Satellite
Demonstration: Atmostube
Demonstration: Scanning
Mobility Particle Sizer Spectrometers
Lecture: Aerosols [odp, pdf] Continue from
Slide 13
September 16, Tuesday
Travel: No Class
Student Task: Read Programming
Guide. Complete quiz by end of day on Tuesday, September
23.
September 16, Thursday - Meet in Clifford Hall 423 Lab
Demonstration: Filter Sampling for Lead (Jenna Post)
September 23, Tuesday [Recording]
Links: Short
Course on Introduction to Air Pollution Modelling
(11-13 November 2025)
In-the-literature: Heavily
polluted Tijuana River drives regional air quality crisis
Demonstration: Ultra-fine CPC (3775)
Video: Jenna Post - 2025/09/18:
Filter Change at Grand Forks Airport
Lecture: Aerosol Direct Forcing [odp, pdf]
(Completed up to Slide 11)
September 25, Thursday [Recording]
Lecture: Aerosol Direct Forcing [odp, pdf] (Start at Slide
11)
September 30, Tuesday [Recording]
Demonstration: Cloud Condensation Nuclei Counter CCNC)
October 2, Thursday [Recording]
Lecture: Aerosol Indirect Forcing [odp,
pdf]
October 7, Tuesday [Recording]
Lecture: Aerosol Indirect Forcing [odp,
pdf]
October 9, Thursday [Recording]
Discussion: Review for Exam I
Discussion: Article Guide [odt,
pdf]
Student Task: Study for Exam I
Student Task: Read Article Guide. Take Blackboard quiz by end
of day on Thursday, October 16.
October 14, Tuesday
Exam I In-class
October 16, Thursday [Recording
- No Shared Desktop]
In-the-literature: Planet's
Oxygen Supply
Video: New Zealand
Scientific Ballooning
Lecture: Ozone [odp,
pdf] (Complete up to
Slide 14)
October 21, Tuesday [Recording]
Discussion: Review Exam I
Lecture: Ozone [odp,
pdf] (Start at Slide
14)
Demonstration: ECC Ozonesonde - Ozonesonde
Wiki
Student Task: Read Air Pollution: Engineering, Science and
Policy Chapter 12 Troposphere Ozone [pdf]
Student Task: Complete Ozone Reading Quiz, Due October 28.
October 23, Thursday [Recording]
In-the-news: New
Delhi
pollution hits
five-year high
Assignment: Aerosol Spectrum[odt,
pdf]
Demonstration: Tapered Element Oscillating Microbalance (TEOM
Model 1405) [Website]
Blog: October 23, 2025 Fog Event [odp,
pdf]
Blog: June 18, 2021 Brief Low
Visibility (Morning Haze Layer)
Student Task: Complete Aerosol Spectrum Assignment, Due
November 4.
October 28, Tuesday
No class meeting, Students should attend Dr. Puja Roy Seminar
Student Task: Complete Ozone Reading Quiz, Due October 28.
October 30, Tuesday [Recording]
Link: CORDS Link
Grafana
PM10 Clifford Hall Dashboard Username UND,
Password N555DS
Student Task: Test CORDS Site access.
* Select Sign In Link - Top Right
* Select "Sign up" Link
* Enter Email Address and Password.
* I will need to set you as Downloader and
Registered User.
Student Task: Test Download PM data from CHORDS and EPA.
Student Task: Start working on the
Demonstration: Aerodynamic Particle Sizer (APS) Wiki
Student Task: Complete Aerosol Spectrum Assignment, Due
November 4.
Student Task: Start working on PM Correlation Assignment [odt,
pdf]
, Due November 11.
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