Environmental Chemistry and Biology at KMUT-JGSEE

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Instructors

Professors Amnat Chidthaisong , amnat_c@jgsee.kmutt.ac.th and Richard Kamens kamens@unc.edu

Textbook Environmental Chemistry by Colin Baird and Michael Cann, ISBN-13 978-1-4292-0146-0, publishers W.H. Freeman and Company, New York, 10010, 773 pages, 2008

Last Update July 14, 2009, added Dr. Amnat’s readings

Schedule

Date	Topic	Lecture Materials
Jun 2-5	Read by yourselves	Appendix AP1 in text book for the class, Baird and Cann, 2008; from here on will be called Baird
June 2-5 cont.	By yourselves go over Intro and basic notes	Notes liver fertility Basic Notes example homework
Week of June 8-12	Lect 1. Some chemistry Basics, begin Lect. 2. O3 –Smog Chemistry	smog notes also read Baird pages 91 – 117
Week of June 15-18	Lect 3. cont smog chemistry	Bair pages 175-201
Week of June 15-18	Lect 4-5.  some kinetics, modeling O3 formation	kinetics Notes Ozipw
Make-up	Lect 6. How do we measure environmental pollutants chromatography)?	General Chromatography Theory
June 19, 20 or when it is clear sun in North Carolina	Lect 7 Remote Smog Chamber experiment	Lecture starts at 5pm, which 5 am in North Carolina USA; log onto UNC smog chamber computer. Bring up data system, turn on particle analyzers,
June 22	Lect 8.  Stratospheric O3 depletion; how does the rain clean things up	notes Baird pages 29-58 ; Henry’s law lecture
Week of June 23-25	Reduce smog chamber data, plot NOx, O3, propylene
Week of June 29-Jul7 3	Lect 9. Aerosols	1^st lecture Notes HW Lect. 9 ans
Week of July 6- 10	Lect 10, The Atmospheric Compartment	notes
Week of July 15-19	Lect 11. Basic Energy Concepts and Renewable Energy	Notes and Baird pages 311 – 366
Week of July 22-26	First Exam
Jul. 29	Lect 12. Global Warming: Fate of CO2 in the atmosphere (Amnat)	lecture notes, Reading on Henry law (Lecture 8 and new CO2 lecture) , ocean acidification (Royal Society, London), Reading 2 (oceans)
Aug. 5	Lect 13. Global Warming: Fate of CH4, N2O in the atmosphere (Amnat)	Dieter H. Ehhalt “Photooxidation of trace gases in the troposphere, Lecture notes Peter Roslev “Oxidation and Assimilation of Atmospheric Methane by Soil Methane Oxidizers” ”, Reading 3, Reading 4 (CH4), Reading 5
Aug. 19	Lect 14. Water chemistry Basics (Prof. Soydow)
Aug. 26	Lect 15. Wastewater treatment
Sept. 2	Lect 16: Water ecotoxicology
	other lectures you can look at for Fun
	Global Warming	notes hw answer
	Pesticides	notes
	Final Exam