CHEM224-10W (C) Whole Year 2010

Analytical and Environmental Chemistry

22 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 22 February 2010
End Date: Sunday, 14 November 2010
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 7 March 2010
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 5 September 2010

Description

Principles of analytical and environmental chemistry. Spectroscopic, electroanalytical, chromatographic and flow techniques with emphasis on environmental applications. Environmental aquatic, redox, acid/base and metal ion chemistry; environmental toxicology; trace organic analysis. Speciation.

CHEM224 course content is divided equally between 'analytical chemistry' and 'environmental chemistry' but the two parts are strongly integrated.

Environmental chemistry is the study of chemistry in the biosphere: the fundamental chemical processes and the impact of humans on these.  The course will discuss the significant properties of terrestrial and aquatic systems, in terms of weathering, acid-base reactions, redox and complex formation processes. It will discuss analytical methods for the determination of major and minor components and for inorganic and organic trace species.

Analytical chemistry is the science of measurements in chemical systems.   It is much more than chemical analysis.   It is problem-driven, with applications typically in ‘real systems’ with complex composition (e.g. sea water).  The emphasis will be on environmental systems.  Analytical chemistry involves an understanding of instrumental techniques: the theory, advantages and limitations, and the quality of the information obtained.   It involves consideration of reliability (detection limits, precision), selectivity and sensitivity.

Learning Outcomes

  • This course will:
  •  meet the basic analytical needs of environmental chemists
  •  resource chemists in basic analytical protocols
  •  apply these protocols to relevant environmental problems

Prerequisites

(1) CHEM112 or CHEM115, and (2) CHEM111 or CHEM113 or CHEM121

Restrictions

Co-requisites

Any single missing pre-requisite may be taken as a co-requisite.

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Alison Downard

Lecturers

Sally Gaw , Vladimir Golovko , Leon Phillips and Ian Shaw

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Exam 55%
Test 1 31 Mar 2010 20%
Test 2 21 Jul 2010 25%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

O'Neill, Peter; Environmental chemistry ; 3rd ed; Blackie Academic & Professional, 1998.

Skoog, Douglas A; Fundamentals of analytical chemistry ; 8th ed. ; Thomson-Brooks/Cole, 2004.

Recommended Reading

Eby, G. Nelson; Principles of environmental geochemistry ; Thomson-Brooks/Cole, 2004.

Shaw, Ian C. , Chadwick, John; Principles of environmental toxicology ; Taylor & Francis, 1998.

Course links

Library portal
Course handout (PDF 95 KB)

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $953.00

International fee $4,399.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Chemistry .

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