From ceginfo@u.washington.edu Fri Feb 23 14:12:54 2001 Received: from jason03.u.washington.edu (jason03.u.washington.edu [140.142.8.11]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id OAA113862 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:12:51 -0800 Received: from homer38.u.washington.edu (ceginfo@homer38.u.washington.edu [140.142.16.4]) by jason03.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id OAA18156; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:12:49 -0800 Received: from localhost (ceginfo@localhost) by homer38.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id OAA105860; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:12:48 -0800 Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:12:47 -0800 (PST) From: Civil and Environmental Engineering To: cegrads@u.washington.edu, faculty@ce.washington.edu Subject: GEC Course - Environmental Chemical Modeling Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII The following is an announcement of a semi-new (taught once before) course that will be offered spring quarter. The course should attract students from several disciplines and is a reasonable option for any grad student in EES who has taken aquatic chemistry. See Mark Benjamin if you have questions about it. ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL MODELING OCEAN 529B/CEWA 599B Spring Quarter, 2001 (3 Units) Tu Th 2:30 to 4:00 Room: Ocean Sciences Building (OSB) 425 (SLN: 5629) Instructors: Jim Murray (Oceanography) Mark Benjamin (Civil Engineering) Laurie Balistrieri (USGS/Oceanography) Wendy Gentleman (Oceanography) Environmental scientists build mathematical models to understand the fate and distributions of environmental pollutants. This course will cover the fundamental principals required to develop such models. These include chemical equilibrium and kinetics and transport by advection and diffusion. Such models are applied to problems as diverse as acid deposition, groundwater contamination, eutrophication in lakes, toxic organic compounds, acid mine drainage and toxic metals. This class will emphasize a number of such environmental chemical problems that occur on local and regional scales. This is a new interdisciplinary course that is part of the Global and Environmental Chemistry (GEC) Certificate Curriculum. The approach is problem oriented. The objectives of the course are to 1) review the basic chemical and physical processes that control the distribution of natural and anthropogenic chemicals in the terrestrial and marine environment and 2) demonstrate how to develop and solve mathematical models for environmental problems on local and regional scales. Students with this background will be capable of building their own models from mass balance equations. The course will emphasize the use and application of a hydrochemical transport model called PHREEQC Version 2.2. Students will conduct their own modeling projects under supervision of the faculty at the end of the quarter. There will be two class sessions (TuTh: 2:30-4:00). There is no required text for the course. Individual readings will be assigned. We recommend that students take Aquatic Chemistry (OCN521/CEWA599B) before this course. For information contact: James W. Murray (lead instructor) 413 Ocean Sciences Building 543-4730 jmurray@u.washington.edu ****************************************************************** .