This website was created to fulfill the requirement of Geo 565 class and also to inform others about the importance of good air quality and what has been done in the past to inform residents of this world, the new technology - Geographic Information System (GIS) that is being used in air quality studies and the role GIS is playing in air quality field. In designing this website, I took into consideration of who I wanted my website user to be in my subject area – air quality. I started with beginners but then realized that the website should be for those who have a basic knowledge of air quality and wanted to know more about its impact, the technology used today and facts about what they can do or where to go to receive more information.
I am a graduate student in environmental science studying the impact of indoor air quality on school children. My interest in this field is the increase of illnesses resulting from poor air quality around the world. Even areas that have not had health-related issues (asthma, lung cancer) are now accounting for at least one air quality-related illness.
AIR is essential for us to live and for me to make the best in this planet, Earth; I consider three essential criteria for success in life - connection to family and friends, faith, and to treat living and non-living beings the way I would want to be treated.
I love poetry and arts and for the rest of my home page I would like to share two poems and art work with you, one from Emily Dickinson and others from students from Illinois.
Air
Air has no Residence, no Neighbor,
No Ear, no Door,
No Apprehension of Another
Oh, Happy Air!
Ethereal Guest at e'en an Outcast's Pillow---
Essential Host, in Life's faint, wailing Inn,
Later than Light thy Consciousness accost me
Till it depart, persuading Mine---
From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1865
Online text © 1998-2007 Poetry X. All rights reserved
The Air We Breathe
Our world is full of air pollution.
We need to come up with a solution.
Let's all come together in a revolution,
To fight against this air pollution.
Too much smoking of cigarettes,
And too much driving of cars,
Makes me want to leave the Earth,
And live somewhere else like Mars.
Let's think about this,
And figure out what to do,
To make the air cleaner
For me and for you.
It may take more work,
It may take more time,
But in the end,
The air will be fine.
And finally, I have one more solution,
We can add one more law to the U.S. Constitution.
The law should be, that we would live free,
From the dirty deadly air pollution.
By Julia Galloway Matteson
St. Lawrence O'Toole School
Angela B.
School: Grade 7, Asa Clark Middle School