Instructor: Dr. Steve McDow

Abbotts, Room 306 (before ~ Jan. 25)

Nesbitt, Room 634 (after ~ Jan. 25)

Office Hours: Monday & Wednesday 2-5 PM

Phone: 215-895-2268

E-mail: mcdow@drexel.edu

Textbook: Environmental Modeling: Fate and Transport of Pollutants in Water, Air, and Soil, by Jerald L. Schnoor, (Publisher: Wiley)

Course Description: The purpose of this course is to apply methods of quantifying reactions, speciation, and movement of pollutants through air and water in order to understand their environmental fate and transport. The course is designed to follow the textbook closely, with each lecture covering one chapter. Although the book places a heavy emphasis on the fate of water pollutants, aspects of the fate of air pollutants will be discussed in lectures when they are relevant to the chapter, as time permits. Please read the chapter before the lecture which covers it. Homework for each chapter will be assigned the day of the lecture and will be due the following week. Homework will be selected primarily from the questions at the end of each chapter. There will be a mid-term exam on Monday, February 8 and final exam on Monday, March 15. Requests for make-up exams due to illness must be arranged with the instructor before the scheduled exam period. The mid-term, final exam, and homework will each count as one third of the course grade.

Grading Scale for Exams and Homework:

90-100 = A

80-89 = B

70-79 = C

60-69 = D

<60 = F 

Course Outline

Jan. 4 Introductory Examples of Fate of Pollutants

Chapter 1 - Mass Balance, Verificaton of Models (pp. 1-30)

Sections 2.1-2.3 Advection, Dispersion, Advective Dispersion (pp. 35-62)

Jan. 11 Sections 2.4-2.7 - Compartmentalization, Transport Models (pp. 62-87)

Chapter 3 - Chemical Reaction Kinetics (pp. 93-123)

Jan. 18 Chapter 4 - Equilibrium Chemical Modeling (pp. 129-178)

Jan. 25 Chapter 5 - Eutrophication: Complete Mixing Application (pp. 185-214)

Sections 6.1-6.4 Rivers: Plug Flow Application (pp. 221-250)

Feb. 1 Sections 6.5-6.7 Rivers: Uncertainty Analysis, Dissolved O₂ (pp. 250-295)

Sections 7.1-7.2 Organics: Nomenclature, Reactions (pp. 305-347)

Feb. 8 Mid-Term Exam

Feb. 15 Sections 7.3-7.5 Organics: Dispersion Application (pp. 347-376)

Sections 8.1-8.3 Trace Metals: Equilibrium Application (pp. 381-414)

Feb. 22 Sections 8.4-8.7 Trace Metal Complexation & Reactions (pp. 414-449)

Sections 9.1-9.6 Groundwater Transport & Reactions (pp. 455-492)

Mar. 1 Sections 9.7-9.11 Groundwater Reactions (pp. 492-523)

Sections 10.1-10.4 Acid Deposition

Mar. 8 Sections 10.5-10.9 Biogeochemical Models

Chapter 11 - Global Change and Global Cycles

Mar. 15 Final Exam