--------------------------------------------------------------- The following message was sent to you via AVO Web Email System: --------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Daniel Chappell Email Address: ps_teton@hotmail.com Subject: Volcanic Ash and its Effects on Health Message: Hello, I am a member of a First Lego League team in Astoria, New York City, USA. First Lego League is a robotics program for kids designed to get them excited about science and technology while also teaching valuable life skills in the process. (link to FLL: http://www.firstlegoleague.org/mission/support) Our team is home based. We are a team of five nine year olds. The name of our team is Sonic Gears. This year’s FLL challenge is Nature’s Fury. Although we live in NYC and have no volcanoes nearby, we were very excited to choose volcanoes as our challenge topic. We must conduct research, identify a real life problem associated with volcanic eruptions and come up with an innovative solution to it. I have been reading the IVHHN website in addition to other books and websites. Members of my team have done the same. We decided to focus on Volcanic Ash and the effects on Health, particularly on how ash affects children. The IVHNN website has been a wonderful source of information. We have a few questions we were hoping you could help with: - When a volcano first erupts, how do you know if it will contain crystalline silica? - Is there a way a non-scientist can tell “dangerous” ash from “non-dangerous” ash? - About how long after a volcano erupts should children wear dust masks and goggles? - Why can’t you find many dust masks for children online? - If we designed a dust mask for children, what would be one of the most important things we should include on the mask? Should it be a certain material? - Are swim goggles a good solution to protect your eyes? I am sending this from my Coach’s email address (they are also my parents). Thank you for any information you have. Sincerely, Daniel Chappell ---------------------------------------------------------------- REMOTE IP ADDRESS: 127.0.0.1 USER AGENT/BROWSER: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0) REFERRING PAGE: http://www.avo.alaska.edu/contact.php