Environmental Field Chemistry
Summer, 2008

Mark R. Boardman
102 Boyd Hall
529-5811
boardman@muohio.edu
Office hours: TBA

 

Date

Day

1-3

3-5

Reading**

June 30

Mon

Environmental chemistry –Abiotic / - Cycles

Measurements intro

Conductivity, TDS, salinity

SM: (1000)

K (79-109)

July 01

Tue

Environmental chemistry – Biotic / cycles

pH, alkalinity Ca, Mg, Hardness

P: Clean Water Act

P: EPA standards

K: (40-77)

July 02

Wedn

Quiz:
Mass Balance

Sulfide Sulfate, Chloride

SS: (307-333)

July 03

Thur No Class  
July 04 Fri No Class  

July 07

Mon

Mass Balance - II

Oxygen, BOD;

 

SS: (355-368)

July 08

Tue

Thermodynamic approach

Phosphate, Nitrate / Nitrite / Ammonia

SS: (333-354)

P: Monitoring Guide

July 09

Wed

Thermodynamic approach II

Turbidity, Total Suspended Solids

Metals (Fe, Cu, Pb, Cr)

 

July 10

Thur

Quiz:
EPA regulations

Soils, rocks, waters in Butler County
Nike Base – case study (Mike Proffitt)

P: Clean Water Act

P: EPA-Stormwater

July 11

Fri

Env. Chem in Butler Co.

Stream Monitoring

  P: Levy, et al.

July 12

Saturday

9 am start: Stream monitoring

Stream Monitoring (3 pm end)

 

         

July 14

Mon

Graduate student presentations Final paper is due

Graduate Student Presentations
Final Exam given

P: student selected

 

 

 

 

**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.