GLG 482/582

Fall 2004

Instructor:	Dr. Jonathan Levy 108 Shideler Hall 529-1947	Lectures:	MWF 10:00-10:50 am Room113B Shideler Hall
email: Office hours:	levyj@muohio.edu Mon 11:00 am-Noon Thurs 10:00 am-11:00 am or by appointment	Texts:	Contaminant Hydrogeology, 2nd edition by C.W. Fetter, 1999, Prentice Hall , 500 pp. The Environmental Pendulum: A Quest for the Truth about Toxic Chemicals, Human Health, and Environmental Protection by R.A. Freeze, 2000, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA., 323 pp. Course reading packet: a collection of recent articles from a variety of journals and books. Students should purchase the course packet from Oxford Copy Shop.

Overview

This course introduces the theory of mass transport in groundwater and soil systems and examine sources, fate and cleanup of groundwater and soil contamination. The course will cover the processes of advection and dispersion. The scale effect of dispersion will be examined as will classic field studies of contaminant migration from the 1980s and 1990s. Chemical and biological reactions and their effects on transport will be covered for both inorganic and organic contaminants. These reactions include chemical and biological degradation, equilibrium and kinetic sorption, precipitation-dissolution and complexation. Multiphase flow will also be investigated as will transport of microbes and colloids. The latter part of the course covers strategies for site investigation and aquifer and soil remediation. All the scientific concepts will be examined in the context of some of the overriding societal issues and ethical questions.

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