COURSE GUIDE

CALENDAR  

Wk	PPT	M	W	F
1		Intro. Session	Chemical Properties
		INTRODUCTION
2		Introduction
		CHEMISTRY OF THE ATMOSPHERE
3		Sources	Photochemistry	Troposphere
4		Trop. Oxidation	Sulfur	Halogens
		CHEMISTRY OF FRESHWATERS
5		Fundamentals	Fundamentals	Fundamentals
6		Case Studies	Case Studies	Case Studies
7		Case Studies	Case Studies	Case Studies
8		Case Studies	Case Studies	Case Studies
		CHEMISTRY OF THE SOLID EARTH
9		Introduction	Components	pH and Redox
10		Chemical Reactions	Chemical Reactions	Chemical Reactions
		ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
11		Introduction	Diversity	Fate
12		Partitioning	Partitioning	Transformations
		THANKSGIVING
		BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING
13		Introduction	Rates	Transfer
14		Biogeo Cycles	Behavior	Behavior
15		No Class

HOMEWORK PROBLEMS

List of problems

MOVIES

List of related movies
List of BBC Horizon episodes

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