This course will focus on understanding the processes that dictate chemical fate in surface waters, including air-water transfer, adsorption, and biological and abiotic degradation. Students will evaluate the kinetics of these processes by interpreting experimental data. They will also characterize transport in surface waters by building theoretical and computational models from scratch that incorporate advection, diffusion and dispersion transport processes. Students will develop finite difference solutions to advection-diffusion-reaction equations, using ideal and non-ideal reactor theory, to describe the ultimate fate of pollutants in surface water systems such as rivers, lakes, and estuaries. Fate and transport of organic pollutants (such as pesticides and pharmaceuticals), as well as biochemical oxygen demand and nutrient pollution, will be studied.Prerequisites: CEGE 3101, CEGE 3501, or instructor consent
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