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Environmental Chemistry

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Course Calendar for Term 2, January - April 2016

(Draft; Subject to Changes)

Date	Topic	Textbook Pages & Handouts to Read	Additional Material	Assignment	Notes
Jan. 7	Introduction	1-17	Anthropocene Arsenic problem in Bangladesh WHO’s new position on DDT
Jan. 12	Composition of the Atmosphere	21-27
Jan. 14	Chemical Processes in the Atmosphere	27-40
Jan. 19	Stratospheric Chem. - Ozone Depletion (I)	41-72	Online textbook on stratospheric ozone WMO: 20 Questions About Ozone Depletion 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Latest O3 data from NASA
Jan. 21	Ozone Depletion (II)		Canadian Ozone Network and Data U.S. EPA’s Ozone depletion home page The Montreal Protocol	Assignment 1
Jan. 26	Tropospheric Chem. - Smog (I)	73-102
Jan. 28	Tropospheric Chem. - Smog (II)		Fuel cell vehicles AirCare Drive Clean
Feb. 2	Tropospheric Chem. - Precipitation (I)	103-130	Global distribution of acid rain (campus access) Acid rain in China (campus access)
Feb. 4	Tropospheric Chem. - Precipitation (II)
Feb. 9	Aerosols	131-149	NARSTRO PM Assessment
Feb. 11	Springtime Arctic Tropospheric Chemistry		Arctic Tropospheric Chemistry: An Overview		Guest lecture by Wen Xu

FEB. 15-19	NO CLASS (MID-TERM BREAK)
Feb. 23	Chemistry of Global Climate	172-207	Greenhouse gases and global warming Kyoto Protocol Status of Ratification	Assignment 1 is due!
Feb. 25	Mid-Term Exam
Mar. 1	Composition of the Terrestrial Environment		The Canadian System of Soil Classification
Mar. 3	Composition of the Aquatic Environment	211-217

Mar. 8

Chemical Processes in the Aquat. and Terrestrial Environ. (I)

217-250

Assignment 2

Mar. 10	Chemical Processes in the Aquat. and Terrestrial Environ. (II)
Mar. 15	Organic matter in the Environment

Mar. 17	Eutrophication	271-290
Mar. 22	Trace Metals in the Environment	291-316

Mar. 24	Guest lecture by Dr. Gregg Tomy
Mar. 29	Remediation:  Waste Water and Solid Treatment	385-408; 455-480	Canadian Environmental Quality Guidelines		Guest lecture by Debbie Armstrong
Mar. 31	Chemistry of the Northern Environment				Guest lecture by Wen Xu
Apr. 5	Pesticides and POPs in the Environment	483-513	Hudson River PCB Story Stockholm Convention on POPs
Apr. 7	Review: Global Biogeochemical Cycles	353-384		Assignment 2 is due!
Apr. 11 18:00-20:00	Final Exam (FR Kennedy Brown Gym)

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