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Chemicals in the Environment: Fate and Transport

Graduate · Historical course

Fall 2004

Topics

  • Control Volumes Mass Balance Advective/Dispersive Transport
  • Chemical Equilibria Mass Action Electroneutrality Mass Conservation
  • Chemical Kinetics Partitioning
  • River Transport
  • Lakes and Wetlands Estuaries
  • Sediment Transport Bottom Sediments Paleolimnology
  • Air-Water Exchange
  • Major Ion Chemistry of Natural Waters
  • Ecosystem Characteristics Redox Chemistry
  • Redox Chemistry in Ecosystems
  • BOD/DO Modeling Microbial Kinetics
  • Photochemistry Hydrolysis
  • Groundwater and Aquifers Darcy’s Law Flow Nets
  • Wells Superposition Capture Curves
  • Transient Well Hydraulics Transport and Retardation
  • Unsaturated Zone Flow NAPL
  • Biodegradation Bioremediation
  • Atmospheric Structure Adiabatic Lapse Rates
  • Global, Synoptic, Local Scale Circulation
  • Gaussian Plume Modeling Deposition Processes
  • Tropospheric Chemistry Acid Deposition
  • Stratospheric Chemistry Radiative Activity of Gases
  • Court Case I
  • Court Case II

Readings

  • Hemond, H. F., and E. J. Fechner. Chemical Fate and Transport in the Environment. 2nd ed. Academic Press, 2000. ISBN: 0123402751.
    Listed reading
  • LEC #: 1 · TOPICS: Control Volumes Mass Balance Advective/Dispersive Transport · REAdings: Read through p. 25
    Reading assignment
  • LEC #: 3 · TOPICS: Chemical Kinetics Partitioning · REAdings: Read through p. 137
    Reading assignment
  • LEC #: 7 · TOPICS: Air-Water Exchange · REAdings: Read through p. 160
    Reading assignment
  • LEC #: 9 · TOPICS: Ecosystem Characteristics Redox Chemistry · REAdings: Read through p. 175
    Reading assignment
  • LEC #: 11 · TOPICS: BOD/DO Modeling Microbial Kinetics · REAdings: Read through p. 220
    Reading assignment
  • LEC #: 14 · TOPICS: Wells Superposition Capture Curves · REAdings: Read through p. 297
    Reading assignment
  • LEC #: 16 · TOPICS: Unsaturated Zone Flow NAPL · REAdings: Read through p. 346
    Reading assignment
  • LEC #: 18 · TOPICS: Atmospheric Structure Adiabatic Lapse Rates · REAdings: Read through p. 398
    Reading assignment
  • Driscoll, F. Groundwater and Wells . New York, NY: Reynolds Guyar, 1986. ISBN: 0961645601.
    Listed reading
  • Freeze, R. A., and J. A. Cherry. Groundwater . Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1979. ISBN: 0133653129.
    Listed reading
  • Morel, F. M. M., and J. G. Hering. Principles and Application of Aquatic Chemistry . New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1993. ISBN: 0471548960.
    Listed reading
  • Reid, G., and R. Wood. Ecology of Inland Waters and Estuaries . New York, NY: Van Nostrand, 1976. ISBN: 0442176058.
    Listed reading
  • Schwarzenbach, R. P., P. M. Gschwend, and D. M. Imboden. Environmental Organic Chemistry . New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1993. ISBN: 0471125881.
    Listed reading
  • Stern, A. C., R. W. Boubel, D. B. Turner, and D. L. Fox. Fundamentals of Air Pollution. Burlington, MA: Academic Press, 1984. ISBN: 0121189309.
    Listed reading
  • Stumm, W., and J. J. Morgan. Aquatic Chemistry. 2nd ed. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1981. ISBN: 0471511846.
    Listed reading
  • Thibodeaux, L. Chemodynamics. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1979. ISBN: 0471612952.
    Listed reading
  • Wayne, R. P. Chemistry of Atmospheres . Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1991. ISBN: 0198555717.
    Listed reading
  • Wetzel, R. G. Limnology Saunders. Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace, 1983. ISBN: 0030579139.
    Listed reading
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