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COURSE INFORMATION FOR CURRENT SEMESTER/TERM

Teaching Schedule
References/Teaching Materials/
Week Lecture/Tutorial/Assignment Topic
Equipment
1 Introduction to concept of environmental modeling and ecotoxicology. Book, Notes and/or
Model calibration and verification. Mass balances. PPT slides

2 Transport phenomena – advection, diffusion, dispersion, Book, Notes and/or
sedimentation, simple transport models. PPT slides

3 Law of mass actions, rate constants and temperature, consecutive Book, Notes and/or
and reversible reactions. PPT slides
4 Parallel reactions, cycles, and food webs, transition state theory, linear Book, Notes and/or
free – energy relationship. PPT slides
5 Equilibrium principles for chemical modeling, surface complexation Book, Notes and/or
and adsorption. PPT slides

6 Precipitation and dissolution in equilibrium models, redox reactions in Book, Notes and/or
equilibrium models. PPT slides
7 Eutrophication of lakes – stoichiometry, mass balance on total Book, Notes and/or
phosphorous, dynamic ecosystem models. PPT slides

8 Toxic organic chemicals – organic chemicals in lakes, river and Book, Notes and/or
estuaries. PPT slides

9 Conventional pollutants in rivers – mass balance equations (plug-flow Book, Notes and/or
system), dissolved oxygen in rivers and estuaries. PPT slides
10 Modeling trace metals – mass balance and waste load allocation for Book, Notes and/or
river. PPT slides
11 Book, Notes and/or
Steady-state model for metals in lakes, metals migration in soils.
PPT slides

12 Groundwater contamination – flow equation, contaminant solute Book, Notes and/or
transport equation, sorption, retardation and reactions, remediation. PPT slides

13 Atmospheric deposition – genesis acid deposition, wet and dry Book, Notes and/or
deposition, biogeochemical models. PPT slides

14 Global change and global cycles – climate change and general Book, Notes and/or
circulation models, global carbon box model. PPT slides

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