Week of July 22-Learning about air sampling and discussing our data from the soil collection

 

On Tuesday, we visited the laboratory of Dr. Wayne Sanderson.  He talked to us about the instruments that he uses to collect air samples-both indoor and outdoor.  He also told us about the different projects that he is working on and how important it is to know what types of contaminants are present in the air that we breathe.

On Thursday, Dr. Jason Unrine joined us. He explained how he had analyzed the soil samples and gave each group the lead concentrations that was determined in each sample.  The group then discussed why they had chosen their collection sites and whether or not the lead concentrations that they identified in the soil samples were a concern to human health.