Environmental Field Chemistry |
Mark R. Boardman |
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Date |
Day |
1-3 |
3-5 |
Reading** |
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June 30
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Mon
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Environmental chemistry
–Abiotic / - Cycles
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Measurements intro
Conductivity, TDS, salinity
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SM: (1000)
K (79-109)
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July 01
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Tue |
Environmental chemistry –
Biotic / cycles
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pH, alkalinity Ca, Mg,
Hardness
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P: Clean Water Act
P: EPA standards
K: (40-77)
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July 02
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Wedn |
Quiz: |
Sulfide Sulfate, Chloride
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SS: (307-333)
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July 03 |
Thur | No Class
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| July 04 | Fri | No Class | ||
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July 07
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Mon |
Mass Balance - II
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Oxygen, BOD;
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SS: (355-368)
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July 08
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Tue
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Thermodynamic approach
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Phosphate, Nitrate /
Nitrite / Ammonia
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SS: (333-354)
P: Monitoring Guide
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July 09
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Wed
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Thermodynamic approach II
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Turbidity, Total Suspended
Solids
Metals (Fe, Cu, Pb, Cr)
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July 10
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Thur
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Quiz: |
Soils, rocks, waters in
Butler County |
P: Clean Water Act
P: EPA-Stormwater
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July 11
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Fri
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Env. Chem in Butler Co.
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Stream Monitoring |
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July 12
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Saturday
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9 am start: Stream
monitoring
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Stream Monitoring (3 pm
end)
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July 14
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Mon
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Graduate student
presentations
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Graduate Student
Presentations |
P: student selected
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**Text: (SM) Standard
Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater (numbers are section
numbers)
(K) Kehew,
A.E. (2000) Applied Chemical Hydrogeology; Prentice-Hall; 368 p. (page numbers)
(SS) Spiro and
Stigliani (2003) Chemistry of the Environment; Prentice Hall; 489p. (page
numbers)
(P) PDF
of specific papers
Measurement
papers. In addition to these texts, each measurement will have a specific
measurement protocol to read.
Usually this will include the Hach protocol and the EPA protocol.