The goal of this course is to provide students with tools to predict the environmental behavior of contaminants. This behavior includes concentration, persistence, reactivity and partitioning among environmental media (air, water, soil, sediment, and biota), as well as associated human health risks. After completing this course, students should be able to:
Note that this class is designed to be a general introduction to contaminant behavior--this class is not intended to be strictly a modeling class. As such, we will focus on some basic principles that apply to each of the various media, and we will develop some simple expressions (i.e. models) to describe that behavior. Remember that contaminant models quickly become very complex; we are simply developing a first approximation for description of contaminant behavior. We offer other classes that cover models extensively, but that is beyond the scope of this course.Identify the information needed to assess environmental behavior of contaminants
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Junko
Munakata Marr
Office:
Coolbaugh 318b
Phone:
303-273-3421
FAX:
303-273-3413
email:
junko@mines.edu
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