Advanced Environmental Chemistry Student Competencies

Texts: Perspectives in Environmental Chemistry, Donald L. Macalady, Ed., 1998 (P)
          Environmental Chemistry, (2nd Edition), Colin Baird, 2000 (B)
 
Photochemical Smog (B)
Oxidant Formation in Troposphere (P)
Chemistry of the Ozone Layer (B)
Stratospheric Heterogeneous Chemistry (P)
Stratospheric Aerosols and Impact on Chemistry (P)
Perspectives on Stratospheric Chemistry (P)
 Solid-Water Interface in Natural Systems (P)
Acid Rain (B)
Role of Tropospheric Aerosols in Atmospheric Chemistry (P)
Atmosphere-Water-Rock Interactions in Alpine Lakes (P)
The Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming (B)
Why CO2 from Fossil Fuel Burning Won't Go Away (P)
 Metal-Phytoplankton Interactions in Marine Systems (P)
 Toxic Heavy Metals (B)
 Environmental Chemistry of Metals (P)
Passive Bioremediation of Metals (P)
Toxic Organic Chemicals (B)
Photolysis of Organics in the Environment (P)
Metal-Catalyzed Hydrolysis of Organics in Aquatic Environments (P)
Overview of Environmental Colloids (P)
The Chemistry and Geochemistry of Natural Organic Matter (P)
The Chemistry of Natural Waters (B)
Assessing the Dynamics of Organic Contaminants in Natural Waters (P)
Microbiologically Mediated Reactions in Aquatic Systems (P)
The Purification of Polluted Water (B)
   

Photochemical Smog

Students should be able to:

Oxidant Formation in the TroposphereThe Purification of Polluted Water

Chemistry of the Ozone Layer

Heterogeneous Chemistry in the Stratosphere

Stratospheric Aerosols and the Impact on Stratospheric Chemistry

Stratospheric Chemistry: Perspectives in Environmental Chemistry

The Solid-Water Interface in Natural Systems

Acid Rain

Role of Tropospheric Aerosols in Atmospheric Chemistry

Atmosphere-Water-Rock Interactions in Alpine Lakes

The Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming

Why Carbon Dioxide from Fossil Fuel Burning Won't Go Away

Metal-Phytoplankton Interactions in Marine Systems

Toxic Heavy Metals

Environmental Chemistry of Metals

Passive Bioremediation of Metals

Toxic Organic Chemicals

Photolysis of Organics in the Environment

Metal-Catalyzed Hydrolysis of Organics in Aquatic Environments

Overview of Environmental Colloids

The Chemistry and Geochemistry of Natural Organic Matter

The Chemistry of Natural Waters

Assessing the Dynamics of Organic Contaminants in Natural Waters

Microbiologically Mediated Reactions in Aquatic Systems

The Purification of Polluted Water