16:375:501(F) Environmental Science Analysis (3) Physical, chemical, and biochemical processes utilized to treat municipal wastewaters. Process mechanisms, treatment efficiencies, and their relationship to wastewater quality; techniques utilized to obtain maximum efficiency. Uchrin |
16:375:502(S) Stream Sanitation (3) Principles of biological stabilization of pollution materials in streams; factors influencing atmosphere reaeration; changes in biological populations in polluted waters. Hunter |
16:375:503(F) Analytical Techniques in Environmental Chemistry (3) Theory and techniques of analytical procedures applicable to research in environmental science. Prerequisite: 11:375:405 or permission of instructor. |
16:375:504(S) Water and Wastewater Treatment (3) Chemical, physical, and biological factors affecting development of water supplies; water quality; municipal and industrial water treatment processes consisting of removal of particulate matter, softening, disinfection, corrosion control, iron and manganese removal, aeration, deaeration, and taste and odor removal. |
16:375:505(S) Waste Treatment II: Water Treatment Laboratory (1) Experiments demonstrating water treatment processes. Lab. 3 hrs. Corequisite: 16:375:504. |
16:375:506(S) Industrial Waste Treatment (3) Industrial waters; industrial processes and sources of wastes; composition, characteristics, and effects; methods of treatment, disposal, and recovery. Prerequisite: 16:375:501. |
16:375:507(F) Environmental Chemistry (3) Equilibria: acid-base, dissolution and precipitation, multi- phase; oxidation-reduction in aquatic systems; elements of chemical thermodynamics. |
16:375:509(F) Groundwater Pollution (3) Principles of groundwater hydrology and pollution. Development of mathematical formulations for describing pollutant movement in groundwater systems. Examination of control measures. Discussion of case studies. Uchrin. Prerequisites: 16:375:504 and 541, or permission of instructor. |
16:375:510(S) Environmental Microbiology (3) Microorganisms in carbon, nitrogen, sulfur cycling, biogeochemical processes, and water and wastewater treatment systems; biodegradation strategies and pathways; and bioremediation of toxic contaminants in the environment. Kukor, Young. Prerequisite: Introductory course in microbiology or permission of instructor. |
16:375:512(F) Pollution Microbiology Laboratory (2) Laboratory exercises paralleling 16:375:510. Lab. 6 hrs. Corequisite: 16:375:510. |
16:375:516(S) Ultimate Disposal and Resource Recovery of Sludges and Solid Waste (3) Description and application of advanced technology for treatment, resource recovery, and ultimate disposal of sludges and solid wastes from municipal, industrial, and agricultural sources; techniques of theory of operation, process design, application, and performance; environmental and socioeconomic implications. |
16:375:517Applications of Aquatic Chemistry (3) Thermodynamics and kinetics of the chemical and biological processes that control the composition of natural and engineered waters, including gas and solid dissolution, chemical complexation, oxidation-reduction, adsorption, photosynthesis, aerobic and anaerobic respiration, biomineralization, and bioaccumulation. The component-tableau approach used to solve equilibrium problems and the computer program MINEQL to study complex aquatic systems. Reinfelder |
16:375:518(S) Principles of Environmental Science (3) Principles and interaction associated with air environment, water environment, and environmental health, including air resources management, water resources management, and their impact on man. Related fundamentals of environmental chemistry, biology, and physics. |
16:375:519(F) Wetland Ecology (3) Survey of the ecology, management, and utilization of wetlands. Topics include the hydrology, soils, biogeochemistry, flora, fauna, and ecosystem dynamics of the major types of wetlands. Waste-water application, wetland creation, wildlife management, wetland assessment and delineation, and conservation also discussed. Ehrenfeld. Prerequisites: 11:704:351 or equivalent, and permission of instructor. |
16:375:520(S) Techniques for Biomonitoring in Aquatic Ecosystems (3) Discussion of techniques used to monitor for the presence of trace contaminants in aquatic ecosystems and to assess the effects of contaminants on the structure and function of these ecosystems. Prerequisite: 16:375:519 or permission of instructor. |
16:375:522(S) Environmental Organic Chemistry (3) Transport and transformations of anthropogenic organic chemicals in the environment; chemical-physical properties of organic chemicals, air-water and air-land exchange, atmospheric processes and deposition, sorption processes, bioaccumulation, chemical transformation, photochemical transformations, modeling concepts, case studies. Eisenreich. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of instructor. |
16:375:523(F) Environmental Fate and Transport (3) Fate and transport of chemicals, chemical exposures in aquatic systems, and prediction of future conditions. Water quality problems introduced by addition of nutrients and oxygen-demanding material, metals, and toxic organic chemicals to water, soil, and air. Models to assess environmental mobility and predict scenarios. New paradigm of "environmental indicators" to assess environmental quality emphasized. Uchrin. Corequisites: 11:375:444 or 451 or equivalent; CALC1, CALC2. |
16:375:524(F) Source Control of Atmospheric Pollution (3) Principles, operation, performance, and application of methods and devices to control aerosol and gaseous emissions. Turpin. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. |
16:375:525(F) Principles of Solid-Waste Management and Treatment (3) Solid-waste problems in the municipal, industrial, and agricultural areas. Interrelationships with other environmental problems; socioeconomic aspects; present state-of-the-art techniques. Quality and quantity variations, treatment and management systems; recycling, source control. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. |
16:375:526(S) Limnology of Urban and Suburban Waters (3) Study of waters stressed by population, development, wastes; emphasis on biological characterization of urban and suburban waters. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. |
16:375:527(F) Physiochemical Process Dynamics in Environmental Systems (3) Major physiochemical processes, including advection, diffusion, dispersion, chemical reaction, interphase mass transfer, and sorption in complex environmental systems. Huang. Prerequisites: General chemistry and calculus II. |
16:375:528(S) Ecosystem Ecology and Global Change (3) The cycling of major nutrient and pollutant elements through aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Natural dynamics compared to anthropogenic impacts on these cycles and on the recipient ecosystems. Observational, experimental and model-based methods of ecosystem analysis. Ehrenfeld. Prerequisite: 11:704:351 or equivalent. |
16:375:529(F) Biodegradation and Bioremediation (3) Basic principles of biodegradation science and bioremediation technology; microbiological, chemical, environmental, engineering, and technological aspects; fate and persistence of contaminants in complex environmental matrices; and microbial transformation and destruction of pollutants. Kukar. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. |
16:375:530(S) Hazardous Waste Management (3) Overview of hazardous waste management. Case histories; legislation and regulations; treatment, disposal, and cleanup technologies; sampling and analysis methodologies; persistence and fate in the environment; emergency response procedures. Strom. Prerequisite: 16:375:525 or permission of instructor. |
16:375:531(F) Biological Waste Treatment (3) Advanced topics in biological waste treatment, particularly activated sludge, focusing on microbial ecosystems. Strom. Prerequisite: 16:375:510 or permission of instructor. |
16:375:533(F) Water Law (3) Examination of the water law doctrines and institutions that affect water resources management. Topics include water rights, water resources development, instream uses, and water pollution control. |
16:375:535(F) Environmental Law and Policy (3) Legal and political interactions and intermediate institutional structures between environmental law and policy, with a focus on pollution-control law. |
16:375:536(S) Air Sampling and Analysis Techniques (3) Theory and laboratory exercises in ambient and indoor air sampling. Topics range from classical air sampling trains to the use of state-of-art direct-reading instrumentation, measurements of airborne nanoparticles and airborne biological agents. Mainelis. Prerequisite:11:375:421 or equivalent. |
16:375:540(S) Atmospheric Chemistry (3) Air pollutants, trace gases, and aerosols discussed in terms of their observed distribution in time and space; sources and sinks in the atmosphere and its boundaries; budgets and cycles. Emphasis on tropospheric chemical reactions. Prerequisite: 11:375:421 or permission of instructor. |
16:375:541(S) Environmental Models (3) Development and applications of environmental models discussed in terms of their ability to simulate and predict the workings of environmental systems and to communicate information and trade-offs between economic and conservation goals. Uchrin |
16:375:542(S) Aerosol Sciences (3) Topics include the dynamics, kinometics, and size characteristics of aerosols; methods for analysis of distribution and morphology; chemistry and physics of the formation of aerosols. Lioy. Prerequisite: Calculus. Recommended: Differential equations. |
16:375:552(F) Soil Genesis and Morphology (3) Soil-forming processes in various climatic regions as evidenced by chemical, physical, and mineralogical characteristics of the profile. System of classification and literature review. |
16:375:554(S) Soil and Plant Relationships (3) Selected topics related to factors affecting the chemical environment of the plant. Prerequisite: 11:375:452. |
16:375:555(F) Soil Physics (3) Study of transport processes of energy and matter through soils. Relationships between the movement of water; the transport of heat, gas, and solute; and the physical properties of soils. Gimenez. Lec. 3 hrs. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. |
16:375:559(S) Soil Management and Crop Production (3) Influence of land management systems and cultural practices on soil productivity and environmental quality. |
16:375:561(F) Soil Chemistry (3) Structural chemistry, formation mechanisms, chemical properties, weathering, and surface reactions of major soil components: silicates, aluminum hydroxides, and iron oxides. Lec. 2 hrs., lab. 3 hrs. |
16:375:568(S) Topics in Soil Chemistry (3) Chemistry of phosphate, potassium, and carbonate in soils; soil acidity and amendments; oxidation-reduction; ion exchange equilibria; pollution of the soils environment. |
16:375:573(S) Ecosystem Processes in Soil (3) Role of organic matter in soil, extraction and analysis of soil organic matter, biodegradation and synthesis of humic and fulvic acids; biological and ecological aspects. Tate |
16:375:584(S) Topics in Radiation Biology (3) Current literature of radiation biology. |
16:375:589,590Seminar in Radiation Science (1,1) Topics of current interest. |
16:375:598(S) Special Topics in Radiological Health (3) Advanced topics of current interest, background radiation levels, radiation exposure standards, external and internal radiation exposure limits, medical radiation exposure and protection, space radiation problems, environmental radioactivity. Prerequisite: 16:375:591. |
16:375:601Experimental Problems in Radiological Health (2) Series of problems requiring literature search, field and laboratory exercises, and written reports. Typical problems: reactor radiation survey, X-ray installation survey, environmental sample analysis. Laboratory and fieldwork. Prerequisite: Completion of all other courses in the radiological health or health physics program. Offered in Summer Session only. |
16:375:612,613Seminar in Environmental Science (0,0) |
16:375:625,626Advanced Special Problems (BA,BA) |
16:375:635Experimental Problems in Environmental Science (BA) |
16:375:651,652Seminar in Soil Science (1,1) |
16:375:675(F) (S) Supervised College Teaching Experience (1) Practice teaching of lecture or laboratory course for undergraduate students. Minimum of three 80-minute lectures or equivalent is expected. |
16:375:701,702Research in Environmental Science (BA,BA) Research in water pollution, water and wastewater treatment, air pollution, and aquatic microbiology. |
