Lecture Notes

CRW 6252 Environmental Biogeochemistry of Trace Metals

Spring 2009

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Lectures Notes from the instructor
Week	Date	Topic	Classnotes	Handouts
1	3-16-09	Lecture 01 Soil review Complexity and heterogeneity of soils	-3-16	Soil complexity
	3-18-09	Lecture 02 Soil review Heterogeneity/Intensity & capacity factor	-3-18	I&C factor
	3-20-09	Lecture 03 Soil review Intensity and capacity factor	-3-20
2	3-23-09	Lecture 04 Soil review Intensity & capacity factor/Weathering	-3-23
	3-25-09	Lecture 05 Soil review Weathering/Florida soil	-3-25
	3-27-09	Lecture 06 Metal review Elemental classification	-3-27	Periodic table
3	3-30-09	Lecture 07 Metal review Earth Scientist’s periodic table	-3-30
	4-01-09	Lecture 08 Metal review Minerals and aqueous species	-4-01
	4-03-09	Lecture 09 Metal review equilibrium reactions/activity-pH graphs	-4-03
4	4-06-09	Lecture 10 Soil processes Metal concentrations in soils	-4-06
	4-08-09	Lecture 11 Soil processes Regulated metals in soils	-4-08
	4-10-09	Lecture 12 Adrian Background concentrations of trace metals in soils	-4-10

5	4-13-09	Lecture 13 Justin Background concentrations of trace metals in soils	-4-13
	4-15-09	Lecture 14 Piyasa Background concentrations of trace metals in soils	-4-15
	4-17-09	Lecture 15 Nate Factors affecting metal behaviors in soils
6	4-20-09	Lecture 16 Kathy Factors affecting metal behaviors in soils
	4-22-09	Lecture 17 Wrap up the class

Term paper-2009 class
Student	Topic
	Guidelines for term paper-2009
Kathy	Mercury immobilization in soil environments: an alternative to conventional remediation methods
Piyasa	Impact of biogeochemical cycle on speciation, source of pollution and remediation of arsenic
Justin	Uranium
Nate	Chromium remediation techniques: a critical review
drian	Biogeochemistry of selenium

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