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All readings in the table below are from the required text:

Amazon logo Hemond, H. F., and E. J. Fechner. Chemical Fate and Transport in the Environment. 2nd ed. Academic Press, 2000. ISBN: 0123402751.

LEC #TOPICSREAdings
1Control Volumes
Mass Balance
Advective/Dispersive Transport
Read through p. 25
2Chemical Equilibria
Mass Action
Electroneutrality
Mass Conservation
3Chemical Kinetics
Partitioning
Read through p. 137
4River Transport
5Lakes and Wetlands
Estuaries
6Sediment Transport
Bottom Sediments
Paleolimnology
7Air-Water ExchangeRead through p. 160
8Major Ion Chemistry of Natural Waters
9Ecosystem Characteristics
Redox Chemistry
Read through p. 175
10Redox Chemistry in Ecosystems
11BOD/DO Modeling
Microbial Kinetics
Read through p. 220
12Photochemistry
Hydrolysis
Quiz 1
13Groundwater and Aquifers
Darcy's Law
Flow Nets
14Wells
Superposition
Capture Curves
Read through p. 297
15Transient Well Hydraulics
Transport and Retardation
16Unsaturated Zone Flow
NAPL
Read through p. 346
17Biodegradation
Bioremediation
18Atmospheric Structure
Adiabatic Lapse Rates
Read through p. 398
19Global, Synoptic, Local Scale Circulation
20Gaussian Plume Modeling
Deposition Processes
21Tropospheric Chemistry
Acid Deposition
22Stratospheric Chemistry
Radiative Activity of Gases
23Court Case I
24Court Case II

Other References

Amazon logo Driscoll, F. Groundwater and Wells. New York, NY: Reynolds Guyar, 1986. ISBN: 0961645601.

Amazon logo Freeze, R. A., and J. A. Cherry. Groundwater. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1979. ISBN: 0133653129.

Amazon logo Morel, F. M. M., and J. G. Hering. Principles and Application of Aquatic Chemistry. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1993. ISBN: 0471548960.

Amazon logo Reid, G., and R. Wood. Ecology of Inland Waters and Estuaries. New York, NY: Van Nostrand, 1976. ISBN: 0442176058.

Amazon logo Schwarzenbach, R. P., P. M. Gschwend, and D. M. Imboden. Environmental Organic Chemistry. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1993. ISBN: 0471125881.

Amazon logo Stern, A. C., R. W. Boubel, D. B. Turner, and D. L. Fox. Fundamentals of Air Pollution. Burlington, MA: Academic Press, 1984. ISBN: 0121189309.

Amazon logo Stumm, W., and J. J. Morgan. Aquatic Chemistry. 2nd ed. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1981. ISBN: 0471511846.

Amazon logo Thibodeaux, L. Chemodynamics. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1979. ISBN: 0471612952.

Amazon logo Wayne, R. P. Chemistry of Atmospheres. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1991. ISBN: 0198555717.

Amazon logo Wetzel, R. G. Limnology Saunders. Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace, 1983. ISBN: 0030579139.


 








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