Quiet Planet

The COVID-19 outbreak and the resulting social distancing recommendations and related restrictions have led to numerous short-term changes in economic and social activity around the world, all of which may have impacts on our environment. Your challenge is to use space-based data to document the local to global environmental changes caused by COVID-19 and the associated societal responses.

Earth Recover

Summary

In our project, we created a website with all the data about the impact of Covid-19 on the environment. In addition, we mentioned most of air pollutants as: Nitrogen dioxide, Sulfur dioxide, Ozone and their effects. We explained Airborne Particle Levels, Carbon monoxide, Methodic Acid and environmental effects due to Covid-19 on some countries. The impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on oceans like the Arctic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean are well studied, as well as some other features.

How We Addressed This Challenge

We started by collecting the data from links provided by NASA, and wrote an analysis about this information. In addition, we observed the effects of Covid-19 on the environment. After that, we created a website and inserted the data in it. We also wrote a future plan of building a mobile application if Covid-19 took more time to end.

How We Developed This Project

We chose this challenge because we were interested to study the changes that is happening in our environment because of Covid-19. We built a website that has the analysis information for the changes in the environment to help people with finding this information in an easier way. We used space agency data in our project in the research process for information that we can use in our website. We used Wix (websites builder) to build our website instead of building it from scratch because we did not have a senior developer in our team. Our biggest challenge as mentioned previously, that we did not have a senior developer for building the app instead of website. Also, we found a problem in gathering the data from the space agency data because we took time to find the exact information that we were looking for. However, our achievements is that we built an actual website that had a list of the effects in the environment due to Covid-19.  

Project Demo

The link for the slides:    

https://www.canva.com/design/DAD9u63H-zI/2HX_aaF_vUlihOHlhCFVpw/view?utm_content=DAD9u63H-zI&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=publishsharelink

The link of the website: 

https://halaabouharb999.wixsite.com/mysite

Data & Resources

Brandon, S. (n.d.). The link between air pollution and COVID-19 deaths. Retrieved from https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/link-between-air-pollution-covid-19-deaths-coronavirus-pandemic

Kumar, A., Ganga, Burston, J., Karliner, J., Lung Care Foundation of India, Chest Surgery, … International Director for Program. (n.d.). COVID-19 and air pollution: a deadly connection. Retrieved from https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/the-deadly-link-between-covid-19-and-air-pollution/

Air quality and COVID-19. (2020, May 7). Retrieved from https://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/air/air-quality-and-covid19
Gohd, C. (2020, May 13). Air pollution levels will bounce back as COVID-19 restrictions loosen, scientists say. Retrieved from https://www.space.com/air-pollution-increase-covid-19-coronavirus.html

Air pollution. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.who.int/health-topics/air-pollution#tab=tab_1

Duncan, B. (n.d.). AIR QUALITY FROM SPACE. Retrieved from https://airquality.gsfc.nasa.gov/

(n.d.). Retrieved from https://so2.gsfc.nasa.gov/no2/FAQs.htm

The World Air Quality Index project. (n.d.). World's Air Pollution: Real-time Air Quality Index. Retrieved from https://waqi.info/#/c/3.443/8.76/1.5z

COVID-19. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://iasi.aeris-data.fr/covid-19/

The COVID-19 related traffic reduction and decreased air pollution in Europe. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.europeandataportal.eu/en/covid-19/stories/covid-19-related-traffic-reduction-and-decreased-air-pollution-europe

Nitrogen Dioxide Levels Rebound in China. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/146741/nitrogen-dioxide-levels-rebound-in-china

Air Quality Suffering in China. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/80152/air-quality-suffering-in-china

Airborne Particle Levels Plummet in Northern India. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/146596/airborne-particle-levels-plummet-in-northern-india?fbclid=IwAR3aGX-peDTflA5Uun5rtfeIKHGDIBD4-6IKWLmpwKzIv_6pOLRmrbfrNc0

Abram, S., Dept of Anthropology, Durham Energy Institute, & Durham University. (n.d.). Global COVID-19 response has slashed CO2 emissions - here's how to keep them low. Retrieved from https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/coronavirus-co2-emissions

Hernandez, M., Data Visualization Developer, & Reuters Graphics. (n.d.). This is the effect coronavirus has had on air pollution all across the world. Retrieved from https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/coronavirus-covid19-air-pollution-enviroment-nature-lockdown/

Covid-19 at Sea: Impacts on the Blue Economy, Ocean Health, and Ocean Security. (2020, May 11). Retrieved from https://www.csis.org/analysis/covid-19-sea-impacts-blue-economy-ocean-health-and-ocean-security

Weber, B. (2020, April 26). Frozen North gone forever: Study of Arctic Ocean shows top of the world changing. Retrieved from https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/sci-tech/frozen-north-gone-forever-study-of-arctic-ocean-shows-top-of-the-world-changing-1.4912541?cache=?clipId

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