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Film, Video Gardening for Ozone Air Quality

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Title

  • Gardening for Ozone Air Quality

Summary

  • Air quality continues to be a public-health concern. Some of the nation's worst ozone pollution occurs in suburbs and even in parks that are downwind from sources of pollution. Ozone amounts can vary widely from one neighborhood to the next, and government ozone-monitoring stations cannot cover all of them. Experts are finding that gardeners can play an important role in monitoring ozone-related air quality. Anne Douglass and Jeannie Allen from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center presented a program titled "Gardening for Ozone Air Quality (Citizen Science)." Gardeners or others who are curious about ozone levels where they live or work, and are willing to make careful observations over time, can become involved in ozone monitoring. Some common and easily-grown plants show overexposure to ozone by characteristic tiny, evenly-spaced spots (stippling) on the upper sides of their leaves. Scientists and educators at NASA Langley Research Center collaborated with plant pathologists and the U.S. National Park Service to develop a protocol for citizen scientists and students to monitor ozone air quality by using a hand-held instrument called the ZikuaTM and observing ozone-sensitive plants. Douglass and Allen explain what NASA's Aura satellite is showing us about air quality on global and regional scales; how the ozone forms and how it affects people and plants; how certain species of common plants can show when ozone levels are high; how to use a ZikuaTM; and what's involved in making an ozone monitoring garden. They also showed how gardeners can link to other citizen scientists and students engaged in ozone monitoring, and how people can learn more about the Aura satellite.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2008-04-08.

Headings

  • -  Education
  • -  Science, Technology
  • -  Environment, Conservation
  • -  Technology, Industry

Notes

  • -  Classification: Education.
  • -  Classification: Science.
  • -  Anne Douglass, Jeannie Allen.
  • -  Recorded on 2008-04-08.
  • -  Kids, Families.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021688162

Online Format

  • video
  • image

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Library Of Congress, and Technology Library Of Congress. Science. Gardening for Ozone Air Quality. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-08, 2008. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688162/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. Science, T. (2008) Gardening for Ozone Air Quality. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-08. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688162/.

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Library Of Congress, and Technology Library Of Congress. Science. Gardening for Ozone Air Quality. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-08, 2008. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021688162/>.