GG425 ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY

Class Schedule and Lecture Note Downloads
GG425/625 -- ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY - Spring 2019
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:30-11:45 AM in POST 708
NOTE: the content of lectures and reading is subject to slight shifts and changes.
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Course Syllabus

Instructor:	Ken Rubin
Office:	POST 606E; Office hrs: tba
Phone:	x68973

Spring '19 GG425 Schedule

Lecture notes are available for download from UH's Laulima system
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 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. 4
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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