COURSE GUIDE

CALENDAR  

Wk	PPT	M	W	F
		AIR
1		Intro Session	Chemical Principles	1: Stratospheric...
2		1: Stratospheric Chemistry
3		Atmospheric Hole	2: Ground Level Air Pollution
4		2: Ground Level Air Pollution	Dirty Little Secrets	3: Chemistry of the...
5		3: Chem. of the Atmosphere	Review	Test 1
		TOXIC ORGANIC CHEMICALS
6		7: Pesticides
7		Playing with Poison	8: Nonpesticide Toxic Organic Compounds
8		8: Nonpesticide TOC's	The History of PCBs	8: Nonpesticide TOC's
9		8: Nonpesticide TOC's	Assault on the Male	Test 2
		WATER
10		9: The Chemistry of Natural Waters
11		Drinking Water	10: The Pollution and Purification of Water
12		10: The Pollution and ...	Our Urban Environment	11: Toxic Heavy Metals
		THANKSGIVING
13		11: Toxic Heavy Metals		Trading IQ for Octane
14		Review		Test 3
15		No Class

HOMEWORK PROBLEMS

List of problems

MOVIES

List of related movies

Animations

Air stripping animation
Atmospheric layers animation
Hydrologic cycle animation
Sun tan animation
Chapman Cycle animation
Satellite Scanning animation
Waste Water animation

REFERENCES

General

• List of related text books
• Dioxin
• PCBs
• Times Beach

Baird

• Reference pages - for all chapters
• PDF's of journal articles - Further Reading
• WH Freeman & Co. - 3rd ed. Web Site

TESTS

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• EChem Test 1 2007   EChem Test 2 2007   Chem Test 3 2007

CLASS PHOTOS - 2007

LINKS

Some useful sites:

• Royal Society of Chemistry - http://www.chemsoc.org
• American Chemical Society - http://www.chemistry.org
• Environmental Science and Technology (ACS Journal) - http://pubs.acs.org/journals/esthag/index.html
• Water, Air and Soil Pollution - http://www.springer.com

Air Pollution:

• Vallero, 2007 - http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/709255/description#description

Pesticides:

• To Spray or Not To Spray - http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/ddt/ddt.html
• Pesticide Action Network - http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Index.html
• Stockholm Convention on POPs - http://www.pops.int/

Nonpesticide Organics:

• Case Study: Baffled by the Baby Bottle - http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/baffled/baffled.html
• Case Study: PCB's in the Last Frontier - http://www.sciencecases.org/last_frontier/last_frontier.asp
• Environmental Hormones Homepage - http://e.hormone.tulane.edu
• POP Goes Antarctica - http://www.literacynet.org/polar/pop/html/project-pops.html
• 'Civil Action' Case Study - http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/superfund0408-3
• Bossier City News Story - http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2001/2001-09-05-01.asp
• Our Stolen Future - http://www.ourstolenfuture.org
• Contaminated Nation Blog - http://contaminatednation.blogspot.com/
• Hudson Watch - http://www.hudsonwatch.net/
• Clean Up GE - http://www.cleanupge.org

Water:

• BBC News 'The Water Debate' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/world/2003/world_forum/water/default.stm
• Analytical Methods for Drinking Water - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470094915/sr=1-3/qid=1152861534/ref=sr_1_3/102-3232276-6040919?ie=UTF8&s=books
• Treatment Plant Tour - http://people.whitman.edu/~dunnivfm/software.html
• NRDC Arsenic in Drinking Water - http://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/qarsenic.asp

Heavy Metals:

• Mercury Matters - http://www.hubbardbrookfoundation.org/MercuryStudy/
• E Magazine 'Heavy Metal Harm', May/June 2003- http://www.emagazine.com/view/?727

Perchlorate:

• Perchlorate publications of Bruce Logan - http://www.engr.psu.edu/ce/enve/logan-perchlorate-pubs.htm