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BIO 365 Lecture Schedule Week Topic Notes Chapter 1 Introduction to environmental chemistry Review problems Review problems Review concepts Review answers 2 Section 1: Components of the biosphere Chemistry of natural waters Water chemistry Half reaction solutions 9 3 Chemistry of soils Case study: Little Rock Lake LRL assignment Soil chemistry (part 2) 12 (p. 591 – 599) 4 Atmospheric chemistry Atmospheric chemistry 1 - 4 5 Section 2: Environmental fate of contaminants Partitioning of contaminants – fugacity Exam 1 review (solutions) Contaminant partitioning 6 Review; catch up; Contaminant transport Exam 1 (2/15) Fugacity 7 Transformation of chemicals - biotic / abiotic Case study: Atrazine Biotic transformations Atrazine article Atrazine notes and assignment 8 Catch up/continue Abiotic transformations 9 Spring Break – No class 10 Section 3: Pollutant classes, modes of action and toxicity Metals Case study: Arsenic Metals (part 2) Arsenic assignment Presentation info Example three, four, five 11 11 Pesticides, Herbicides Exam II (3/21) Exam 2 review Organochlorines 7 12 Hydrocarbons and other organics Student presentations Herbicides Dioxin presentation (assignment) Dioxin toxicity 8 13 Atmospheric pollutants Case study: Glyphosate Student presentations Relyea articles 2 14 Section 4: Contaminant removal Purification of polluted waters Student presentations Polluted water Problem set 10 15 Waste, soils and sediment Case Study: As cycling in Yellowstone National Park and the Madison River drainage Waste treatment PBB Assignment 12 16 Final review Exam III (4/23) No class (4/25) Exam 3 review 17 Final exam from 12:00 – 1:50 (Wed. 4/30)
BIO 365 Lecture Schedule
Introduction to environmental chemistry Review problems
Review problems Review concepts Review answers
Chemistry of soils Case study: Little Rock Lake
LRL assignment Soil chemistry (part 2)
12 (p. 591 – 599)
Exam 1 review (solutions) Contaminant partitioning
Review; catch up; Contaminant transport Exam 1 (2/15)
Transformation of chemicals - biotic / abiotic Case study: Atrazine
Biotic transformations Atrazine article Atrazine notes and assignment
Section 3: Pollutant classes, modes of action and toxicity Metals Case study: Arsenic
Pesticides, Herbicides Exam II (3/21)
Hydrocarbons and other organics Student presentations
Herbicides Dioxin presentation (assignment) Dioxin toxicity
Atmospheric pollutants Case study: Glyphosate Student presentations
Section 4: Contaminant removal Purification of polluted waters Student presentations
Waste, soils and sediment Case Study: As cycling in Yellowstone National Park and the Madison River drainage
Final exam from 12:00 – 1:50 (Wed. 4/30)