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3.00 Credits
Description: Remote sensing techniques and applications for improved natural resource utilization of soils, water, grasslands, and forest. Fundamental energy-matter interactions that influence the spectral characteristics of vegetation, soil, and water. Graduate-level requirements include an in-depth research paper on a single aspect of a current topic. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. May be convened with: SWES 453. Usually offered: Spring.
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3.00 Credits
Description: Course focuses on water harvesting principles and techniques. Students will learn how to apply concepts at their own residences and participate in applying them on the UA campus. Graduate-level requirements include working with other graduate students to evaluate water harvesting practices on campus. Two examples of good & poor water harvesting on campus plus two sites that might be considered for future harvesting must be surveyed with results posted on website. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Typical structure: 2 hours lecture, 1 hour workshop. Identical to: ECOL 554, WFSC 554. May be convened with: SWES 454. Usually offered: Spring.
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3.00 Credits
Description: Natural resource managers and policymakers are increasingly encountering the mandate for maintenance of ecosystem function in watersheds. What does this mean How do we measure ecosystem function How do we measure positive or negative changes in ecosystems This course will examine the structure and function of watershed ecosystems with emphasis on the ecosystem and geomorphic processes shaping watersheds. Students are introduced to the processes that shape the structure and functioning of ecosystems and watersheds, their responses to natural and anthropogenic change and recovery to these disturbances. Student will compare different ecosystems to watershed responses to anthropogenic changes and collect data from selected field sites to explore the relationship among ecosystem processes and changing climate (or other disturbances). Students will develop the writing skills necessary to communicate technical information, the ability to integrate and contextualize the principles of natural resource management by class field work, and gain an understanding of the importance of proper ecologic functioning to the maintenance of healthy watershed systems. Graduate-level requirements include conducting a literature review of an ecosystem and its response to anthropogenic change or disturbance and work as a group to synthesize these data across ecosystems. This will include proposal, annotated bibliography, and term paper. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Identical to: WS M 556A; WS M is home department. May be convened with: SWES 456A. Usually offered: Spring.
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3.00 Credits
Description: Consideration of major world soil and water conservation problems and solutions; principles of soil and water degradation by erosion, ground water overdraft, chemical transport in surface and ground water and their effects on world food production and environmental problems. Graduate-level requirements include an in-depth research paper on a single aspect of a current topic. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. May be convened with: SWES 461. Usually offered: Summer.
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3.00 Credits
Description: Introduction to the principal chemical constituents and processes occurring in soils and sediments. The objective of the course is to provide students with a conceptual framework for understanding chemical reactions in heterogeneous natural systems. Applications to biogeochemistry and environmental quality will be presented, but fundamental principles will be emphasized. A general chemistry text is a useful additional reference, and it should be consulted for questions regarding concepts that may not be fully reviewed in lecture or the required text. Graduate-level requirements include a term paper that involves independent literature research in a course-related subject of the student's choice. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. May be convened with: SWES 462. Usually offered: Spring.
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3.00 Credits
Description: Natural soils and waters are heterogeneous systems with many important reactions occurring at the interface between solid, liquid and gas phases. The fate of chemicals that impact on terrestrial and aquatic systems is controlled largely by their behavior at these interfaces, particularly as that behavior influences chemical speciation and the relative affinity for solid and aqueous phases. Our objective is to understand how molecular-scale solution-phase and surface reactions influence macroscopic chemical processes such as sorption-desorption, precipitation-dissolution, oxidation-reduction and particle interactions. The course will cover fundamentals of aqueous surface and colloid chemistry through lecture and assigned readings. Current research in the field will be explored through independent literature research and the preparation of a term paper. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Prerequisite(s): SWES 462, CHEN 103B, CHEM 480A. Usually offered: Spring.
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3.00 Credits
Description: Physical and chemical processes influencing the behavior of contaminants in the subsurface environment. Includes equilibrium and kinetic theory of solubilization-dissolution, volatilization, sorption, hydrolysis, photolysis, surface catalysis and radioactive decay. Graduate-level requirements include a project involving literature research in environmental chemistry. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. May be repeated: for credit 3 times (maximum 4 enrollments). May be convened with: SWES 464. Usually offered: Fall.
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3.00 Credits
Description: The transport of contaminants in the subsurface environment. Effects of dispersion, interphase mass transfer, transformation reactions, and porous-media heterogeneity on transport; covers aqueous (dissolved) and multiphase (immiscible liquid, gas) systems. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Prerequisite(s): SWES 570 or HWR 518 or HWR 531. Usually offered: Spring.
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3.00 Credits
Description: Principles of characterizing and remediating contaminated soil and groundwater systems, with a focus on case studies. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Prerequisite(s): HWR 531 or equivalent; SWES 564 or equivalent. Identical to: HWR 566. Usually offered: Fall.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Description: The course is devoted to reading and discussion of papers in the emerging field of environmental molecular biogeochemistry. Through reading and discussion, we will explore experiments and models designed to understand coupled biotic-abiotic (e.g., biomineralization, oxidation-reduction) processes in environmental systems. Emphasis is placed on how molecular-scale techniques (e.g., spectroscopy) may be used to probe interactions between chemicals and natural media such as minerals, organic matter and biomass. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Prerequisite(s): CHEM 103B, SWES 462/562. Usually offered: Fall.
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