Instructor: | Ken Rubin |
Office: | POST 606E; Office hrs: arrange by appointment |
Phone: | x68973 |
Week | Lecture | Topic | Reading |
1 | 1,2 | Intro: Environmental Science & Environmental Geochemistry; Global environmental systems: the hydrologic and elemental cycles. Motions of the atmosphere and hydrosphere note: see self study Chem 161/162 review pack - Aquatic Chemistry, inorganic substances, acids-bases, solubility, complexes; |
Ch 1, 16 (especially 16.1-16.5) |
2 | 3,4 | Putting the hydrosphere and its processes in chemical
perspective; |
Ch 2 review 7th Ed. Ch 28 download from Laulima, under "additional reading" |
3 | 5,6 | More Aquatic Chemistry: redox review, redox ladder, environmental poising; Aquatic Microbial Biochemistry, microbial role in nutrient cycling
|
Ch 3, 5, 21 |
4 | 7,8 | organic chem. intro, microbial biochemistry and transformations to organic matter |
Ch 5, 21, 7th Ed Ch 29 download from Laulima, under "additional reading" |
5 | 9,10 |
BOD, OM and nutrient loading in the hydrosphere. better resolution version of N-P tables from Lect9 |
Ch 4 |
6 | 11,12 | Particle-Aqueous Solute Interactions and Case Studies from Estuarine and near Shore Marine Environments. | Ch 4 |
7 | 13,14 | Weathering and soil formation, agricultural soils; soil contaminants/remediation; soil orders, soil classification table, soil climate figure | Ch 14,15 |
8 | 15,16 | Mass transfer phenomena (Tue); groundwater (Th); | Ch 14, 15 |
9 | 17,18 | Groundwater pollution: organic contaminants, remediation methods (Tu);Toxicology intro, (Th) | Ch 6, Ch 19.11-19.14, Ch 22.1-22.5 |
10 | 19,20 | Fresh/Salt Water pollution - Heavy Metals (Tu) Drinking Water treatment (Th) |
Ch 19.11-19.14, Ch 22.1-22.5, Ch 7 |
off | spring break: enjoy | ||
11 | x, 21 | Sewage and wastewater treatment (no clas Tue) |
Ch 7 |
12 | 22,23 | Atmospheric chemistry;; Atmospheric pollutants: halocarbons and stratospheric ozone; | Ch 8, 10 |
13 | 24,25 | Atmospheric pollutants: photochemical smog, acid rain; Greenhouse gasses and Global Climate: Past, Present and Future; | Ch 13, 14 |
14 | 26,27 | Energy, technology and resources; | Ch 17, 18 |
15 | 28,29 | Radioactivity: General review, uses, hazards, environmental issues | none |
16 | 30 | Radioactive materials case studies: a. Depleted Uranium; b. Sr-90/Y-90 (time pending) | none |
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