GG425 ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY

Class Schedule and Lecture Note Downloads
GG425 -- ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY - Spring 2013
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:30-11:45 AM in POST 708
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Instructor: Ken Rubin

Office: POST 606E; Office hrs: tba

Phone: x68973, x66836 (lab)

Spring '13 GG425 Schedule

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Readings note: Ken will provide 6th Ed review chapters noted below for weeks 2 and 4

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	Ch 1, 2
2	3,4	Aquatic Chemistry, inorganic substances, acids-bases, solubility, complexes; Putting the hydrosphere and its processes in chemical perspective (note: Lect 4 is a long pdf because some of this is background reading)	Ch 3 review 6th Ed. Ch 28
3	5,6	More Aquatic Chemistry: redox review, redox ladder Aquatic Microbial Biochemistry Homework #1 to be assigned, due next Tuesday	Ch 4
4	7,8	organic chem. intro, microbial biochemistry and transformations to organic matter, microbial role in nutrient cycling	Ch 6, 22, 6th Ed Ch 29
5	9,10	BOD, OM and nutrient loading in the hydrosphere (Monday Holiday) better resolution version of N-P tables from Lect9 Homework#2 to be assigned on thursday.	Ch 5
6	11,12	Particle-Aqueous Solute Interactions and Case Studies from Estuarine and near Shore Marine Environments	Ch 5
7	13,14	Weathering and soil formation, agricultural soils; soil contaminants/remediation; partial soil classification figures: soil orders, soil classification table, soil climate figure	Ch 15,16
8	15, 16	Mass transfer phenomena (Tue); groundwater (Th)	Ch 15
9	17, (18)	Groundwater pollution: organic contaminants, remediation methods. No CLASS Tu or Th. Read notes on your own. HW#3 to be assigned; partial	Ch 16
10	19,20	Take Home MIDTERM EXAM (study guide) Toxicology intro, Fresh Water pollution: Heavy Metals;	Ch 7, Ch 20.11-20.14, Ch 23.1-23.5
off		spring break: enjoy
11	21,22	Drinking Water treatment; Sewage and wastewater take home midterm due in class on Thursday	Ch 8
12	23,24	Atmospheric chemistry; Atmospheric pollutants: halocarbons and stratospheric ozone	Ch 9, 11
13	25,26	Atmospheric pollutants: photochemical smog, acid rain; Greenhouse gasses and Global Climate: Past, Present and Future; HW#4 ... final paper assignment	Ch 13, 14
14	27,28	Energy, technology and resources; HW#5 ...	Ch 18,19
15	29,30	Radioactivity: General review, uses, hazards, environmental issues	none
16	31	Radioactive materials case studies: a. Depleted Uranium; b. Sr-90/Y-90	none


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Instructor:	Ken Rubin
Office:	POST 606E; Office hrs: tba
Phone:	x68973, x66836 (lab)