AirUCI Summer Workshop in Environmental Chemistry for Science Teachers UCI Course Code: CHEM X416 Credits: 6 quarter credits (through UCI Extension) Quarters: Summer Quarters 2005-2014 Start and End Dates for the Next Course: Friday, June 21 - Wednesday, July 3, 2013

2013 Lab Manuals, Prelabs, and Postlabs

• Using Spartan to Investigate the Molecular Properties of Atmospherically Relevant Greenhouse Gases
• Modeling of Air Pollution in the Los Angeles Basin with Air PSE
• FTIR Determination of MTBE in Gasoline and Ethanol in Vodka and Mouthwash
• GC/MS Analysis of Ethanol and Benzene in Gasoline
• HPLC Measurement of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Cigarette Smoke
• LIBS Analysis of Metal Surfaces
• Ability of Catalytic Converters to Reduce NOx Air Pollution
• Excel plotting appendix
• Combined PRELABS
• Combined POSTLABS
• The ENTIRE SET OF LABS

Course Syllabi from Different Years of the Workshop (PDF files):

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Relevant Links

• National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for criteria pollutants
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
• Global ozone maps from the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS)
• AIRNow: air quality maps for the United States
• Current air quality on the South Coast Air Quality Management District Website
• National Science Foundation (the organization that funds this progarm)
• The real holes in climate change (Nature article)