A&M-Kingsville Environmental Engineering Partners
With Corpus Christi Museum for Kid-Friendly Air Quality Exhibit

Starting this summer, youngsters visiting the Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History may get their first lessons in air pollution and ozone levels through an exhibit born out of the environmental engineering department at Texas A&M University-Kingsville.
The exhibit, formally titled the “Real-Time Air Quality Information Dissemination Project,” was made for elementary and middle school students. It consists of a 42-inch HDTV screen above a computer setup, showing a slide presentation explaining what ozone is, what pollutants are in the Corpus Christi air, and how we can all make our air cleaner. A second HDTV screen shows near real-time air quality results from a monitoring station on the roof of the museum—the first air monitoring station located in downtown Corpus Christi.
How all of this came about can be traced back to an idea last summer from associate professor of environmental engineering and associate dean of the Frank H. Dotterweich College of Engineering Dr. Kuruvilla John and environmental engineering graduate student “Rocky” Marciano Sanchez at Texas A&M University-Kingsville.

John also noted that with this seventh monitoring station, A&M-Kingsville oversees the largest network of ozone monitors in South Texas. “With the information from these stations, we can see where we can best focus on reducing emissions in the Coastal Bend region.”