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Students Monitor Air in Beijing
Region: China
Author: Xicheng Science and Technology Centre
Consortium Member: Green Earth Volunteers
Status: Funded and Ongoing
Budget: $1100
Collected: $1100
Needs: $0
Result: Twenty students and 2 teachers will sample and test air in industrial and residential sites of Beijing. Students will use their project to raise awareness of air quality issues among other students and encourage environmental protection activities.
Donors: Derek Chung Fund, San Francisco Foundation, California; Anonymous, California; and matching funds from the Trace Foundation [June 2002]
Proposed plan of this project:
Two air quality monitoring sites will be set up in an industrial zone,
residential zone, commercial zone, school campus, government agencies,
and recreational sites. The main monitoring indexes are SO2, CO, NOX
and suspended particles. The samples will be picked up once a month
and analyzed and tested in the laboratory of Xicheng Science and
Technology Center. Final results and averages for each ambient air
pollutant will be compared to Canadian or American Environmental
Air Quality Standards. Students will be encouraged to display the data
using graphs which indicate what the National and International
Standards are. Two teachers and twenty high school students will
participate in this project from the Xicheng District of Beijing.
Output of the project:
By conducting air quality monitoring in different places of Beijing,
the students will have a general idea of the air quality status in
Beijing. Through this quality monitoring project, it is hoped that
the students will know the general status of air quality in Beijing,
and know the importance of protecting the ambient environment as well
as how to conduct air quality monitoring so as to raise the
environmental protection awareness among high school students and
encourage them to participate in the activities of environmental
protection. They will provide a technical report including the
monitoring data to Virtual Foundation after the project is finished.
Project Duration:
Seven months
Budget
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Purchase of air sampling instruments
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$200
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Purchase of air quality analysis instruments
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$400
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Sampling activities(transportation, etc.)
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$400
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VF Administrative Cost
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$100
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Total
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1100
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