CHEMICAL PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

11:375:202

 

Department of Environmental Sciences
Rutgers University

 

FALL 2009

MW 2:15 - 3:35 (Cook/Douglass 4th period)

Cook/Douglass Lecture Hall 103

 


Pre-requisite:
General Chemistry 01:160:160 or 01:160:162
Text: Environmental Chemistry, 4th Edition (Baird, 2008), available at the Cook-Douglass Student Coop, Nichol Ave and Lipman Dr.
Professor: John Reinfelder ENRS Building, Rm 260
Office hours: Tuesdays 1-4 or by appointment.
Phone: 932-9800 x6211; reinfelder@envsci.rutgers.edu

Basis of Grade: Group exercises: 30%; Homework: 30%; Exams: 40%

 

Harsh stuff:

·  Late homework will be marked down 5% for each class day after the due date it is received.

·  No make-up exams unless you or someone in your immediate family is ill and this illness can be verified by a note from the deans office.

·  Rutgers University Policy on Academic Integrity.


    Podcast - Nitrous oxide as ozone destroying substance

    New York Times Series - Toxic Waters

· SYLLABUS

· Lecture Notes

· HOMEWORK 1 - Due Sept 21

· HOMEWORK 2 - Due Sept 30

· HOMEWORK 3 - Due Oct 28

· HOMEWORK 4 - Due Dec 2

· HOMEWORK 5 - Due Dec 9

 

Heats of formation of gases

Temp Press Table

Prefixes used in scientific notation

 


Interesting seminars on campus and beyond …

 


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Environmental Chemistry Links

Topical

Air Pollution Trends

Aura atmospheric chemistry project

Drinking water quality

Drinking water standards

Stratospheric ozone

Ground-level ozone maps

Mercury deposition (atmospheric) network

Radioactivity in drinking water

            MacKay's sustainable energy book "Without Hot Air"            

 

General

NJ Department of Environmental Protection

NJ USGS

 

Organizations

Hudson-Delaware Chapter – Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

New Jersey Section American Water Works Association

 


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