This unit covers both the chemical and physical processes relevant to the transport of contaminants through the natural environment and the contaminants' eventual fate—either destruction or long-term storage. Students learn about the processes that govern the fate and transport of many classes of contaminants in three major environmental media—surface water, the subsurface environment and the atmosphere. Topics such as photochemical smog, acid sulphate soils and the mobility of fertilisers are covered. -- Course Website
Instructor: Winthrop Professor Carolyn Oldham
Prerequisites: enrolment in the Master of Professional Engineering; for pre-2012 courses: (CHEM1101 Inorganic and Physical Chemistry or CHEM1001 Chemistry—Properties and Energetics or equivalent) and (ENVE2602 Environmental Fluid Mechanics or ENSC3010 Hydraulics)