Summer 2023
Four-week Research Experience
(May 15 to June 9)
Students will have a complete research experience on air pollution including research design, sensor installation, data analysis, data visualization, presentations, and communicating science with the general public.
Overall Program Plan (Tentative schedule and daily agenda)
Summer Fun Activities (Please contribute your ideas)
Chore Chart (Please sign up)
Where to Submit Assignments: Google folder for each student (Login required) - the same folder students used in spring 2023.
Week 1 Activities
Learning Materials
Examples of using PurpleAir (by Olivia Sablan)
REU application (by Olivia Sablan)
Getting started with R (by Bo Zhang)
PurpleAir sensor
PurpleAir data
Basic data management (by Bo Zhang)
Basic functions (by Bo Zhang)
Friday Class
Sensor installation in the community
Assignments:
Daily reflection (prompts to be given by Tania)
What you learned; what you did; what you look forward to
Daily tasks (to be assigned by Bo and Ping)
Where to submit: Google folder for each student (Login required) - the same folder students used in spring 2023.
Week 2 Activities
Learning Materials
Q&A with Emily
Tuesday Class
Meeting with Emily
Independent work
Wednesday Class
Regression (Bo)
API of PurpleAir (Alyssa)
Geosciences Career Panel
Thursday Class
ggplot (Bo)
Planetary boundary layer (Ping)
Friday Class
Weekly presentations
Week 3 Activities
Learning Materials
Wednesday Class
Spatial tools for R (by Mena Whalen)
NOAA Hazard Mapping System Fire and Smoke Product (by Nora)
How to Use HMS Guide (by Nora)
Ideas for developing materials for community to use
What we have already developed
Wildfires and PM2.5 (by Nora)
NASA Worldview (by Nora)
Food system resilience in Chicago neighborhoods (by Dikshya)
Friday Class
Weekly presentations
Week 4 Activities
Learning Materials
HYSPLIT model (by Nora)
Independent work
Tuesday-Thursday
Independent work
Complete abstrat and poster
Summary presentations
[More learning materials will be added. Updated on 30 May 2023.]