ENGS 42: Contaminant Hydrogeology

Offered

Alternate years: 13S: 2A, laboratory Thurs 4:00-6:00pm

Prerequisites

EARS 66 or permission of instructor

Dist

TAS

Instructors

Renshaw

Textbooks

Spring 2013: see list

Identical to EARS 76/176

Groundwater contamination is a widespread threat to the environment and to human health. This course will include a survey of the physical, chemical, and biological processes by which both dissolved and multiphase contaminants are transported and transformed in the subsurface. The laboratory is used to illustrate phenomena and principles.