e-Manual: Introduction to Air Quality in Tribal Communities
Course overview
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This is the pre-course activity for participants in the American Indian Air Quality Training Program (AIAQTP) course, Introduction to Tribal Air Quality (January 24-26, 2023).
Contacts:
- Mansel Nelson, Program Manager, Indoor Air Quality in Tribal Communities / Tribal Environmental Education Outreach Program, mansel.nelson@nau.edu
- Christal Black, Assistant Manager, American Indian Air Quality Training Program, Christal.Black@nau.edu
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Course Content
Course Agenda
Activity: Identify air quality issues in your area
Activity – AQ Concerns in Tribal Communities
PowerPoint: Introduction to The Atmosphere and Weather
Wind Roses - Charts and Tabular Data
Global Winds and Ocean Currents
Monitoring Your Personal Air Quality
PowerPoint: Clean Air Act
PowerPoint: Air Quality NAAQS & Designations 101
Resource: Video on Clean Air Act (CAA)
Resources: Clean Air Act
PowerPoint: Fossil Fuels
Activity: Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change Group Activity
Resource: ITEP Tribes & Climate Change Program
Participant Questionnaires: Identify Air Quality Issues
Participant PowerPoints: Description of your Tribal Air Quality Program.
Activity: Action Planning
Resources: Guidance for Developing of Tribal Air Programs
PowerPoint: Emissions Inventories (EI)
Activity: Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) Activity
Resource: Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) Activity with Example
PowerPoint: Air Quality Monitoring
Resource: Technical Guidance for the Development of Tribal Air Monitoring Programs
PowerPoint: Data Management Introduction
Principles of Data Management
Videos: Using Excel Spreadsheets
Sensor Data
Resource: Data Tools and Professional Assistance
PowerPoint: Air Program Components: an Overview & Tribal Case Study
PowerPoint: Tribal Authorities
PowerPoint: Funding for Air Quality Programs
PowerPoint: EPA Funding
PowerPoint: Funding - Supplemental Environmental Project (SEP)
PowerPoint: Funding - National Institutes of Health
PowerPoint: Funding - Morongo Community Air Monitoring Network
PowerPoint: Education and Outreach
Resources: Education and Outreach
Video: EPA Flag Program in Navajo Language
PowerPoint: Basics of a Healthy Building
PowerPoint: Introduction to Wildfire and Indoor Air Quality
Scholar LMS: Radon Fundamentals
Videos: Introductions to AIAQTP Staff
PowerPoints: Introductions to AIAQTP Staff
EPA: OUR NATION'S AIR TRENDS THROUGH 2021
EPA AirData Air Quality Monitors