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  • ENVIRON 231L: Models for Environmental Data

    3.00 Credits
    Duke University

    Formulation of environmental models and applications to data. Topics include physiology, population growth, species interactions, disturbance, and ecosystem dynamics. Model development, analysis, and interpretation. Discussions focus on classical and current primary literature. Lab focuses on analysis of data using R, making use of likelihood models, bootstrapping, and Bayesian approaches. Instructor: Clark
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  • ENVIRON 234L: Watershed Hydrology

    4.00 Credits
    Duke University

    Introduction to the hydrologic cycle with emphasis on the influence of land use, vegetation, soil types, climate, and land forms on water quantity and quality and methods for control. Development of water balance models. Analysis of precipitation patterns, rainfall and runoff, and nonpoint source impacts. Statistical handling and preparation of hydrologic data, simulation and prediction models, introduction to groundwater flow, laboratory and field sampling methods. Instructor: Katul
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  • ENVIRON 235: Air Quality Management

    3.00 Credits
    Duke University

    Types, sources, effects of air pollutants. Regulatory framework emphasizing the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 and federal, state, local agency implementation. Application of risk assessment, technology, market incentives to air management. Scientific, policy aspects of acid deposition, global climate change, indoor air, mobile sources control. Dispersion modeling, exposure assessment. Instructor: Vandenberg
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  • ENVIRON 236: Water Quality Management

    3.00 Credits
    Duke University

    Types, sources, and effects of pollutants. Water quality standards and criteria. Engineering approaches to water management. Mathematical models and their application to water quality management. Federal regulations, in particular, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act. Policy analysis for water quality management planning. Instructor: Reckhow
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  • ENVIRON 238: Global Environmental Health: Economics and Policy

    3.00 Credits
    Duke University

    Social science perspective on global environmental health. Students will learn to identify primary environmental causes of high burden diseases such as malaria, diarrhea, and respiratory infections; describe how to measure socio-economic impacts of global environmental health diseases; discuss key policies to control global environmental health problems based on private prevention and therapeutic behaviors; and propose frameworks to empirically monitor and evaluate global environmental health policies. A sub-module will focus on climate change and water-borne diseases. Prerequisites: Introductory course in statistics. Instructor: Pattanayak
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  • ENVIRON 239: Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessment

    3.00 Credits
    Duke University

    Topics central to both health and ecological risk assessment are explored. Basic concepts of hazard identification, dose-response relationships, exposure assessment, and risk characterization and communication are discussed in the context of both human health and environmental assessment. The basis and rationale for using specific, as well as extrapolated, scientific information and expert judgment, and the strengths and weaknesses of alternative approaches, are evaluated. Applications emphasizing real cases are used to illustrate the interdisciplinary process and products of risk assessment, as well as the regulatory use of the information. Group projects emphasized. Instructors: Mihaich and McMasters
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  • ENVIRON 240: Chemical Fate of Organic Compounds

    3.00 Credits
    Duke University

    Equilibrium, kinetic, and analytical approaches applied to quantitative description of processes affecting the distribution and fate of anthropogenic and natural organic compounds in surface and groundwaters, including chemical transfers between air, water, soils/sediments, and biota; and thermochemical and photochemical transformations. The relationships between organic compound structure and environmental behavior will be emphasized. Sampling, detection, identification, and quantification of organic compounds in the environment. Prerequisites: university-level general chemistry and organic chemistry within last four years. Instructor: Stapleton
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  • ENVIRON 242: Environmental Aquatic Chemistry

    3.00 Credits
    Duke University

    Principles of chemical equilibria and kinetics applied to quantitative chemical description of natural and engineered aquatic systems. Topics include acid/base equilibrium, the carbonate system, metal complexation, oxidation/reduction reactions, precipitation/dissolution of minerals, and surface absorption. Prerequisite: Civil and Environmental Engineering 120L or Environment 160 or equivalent. Instructor: Hsu-Kim
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  • ENVIRON 243: Respiratory Proteins and the Environment

    3.00 Credits
    Duke University

    Molecular diversity in structure, function and evolution of respiratory proteins. Field trips to biodiverse areas of Costa Rica and coastal NC complement text and lectures. Covers molecular adaptations that underlie macroscopic biodiversity, blood functions and blood pathogens, oxidative and nitrosative stress. Lectures and readings on the balance between pathways for metabolic oxygen utilization and alternative disease-causing pathways. (Given at Beaufort.) Field trip to Costa Rica required. Prerequisite: one semester of organic chemistry or consent of instructor. Instructor: C. Bonaventura
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  • ENVIRON 244S: Collective Action, Environment & Development

    3.00 Credits
    Duke University

    Examines the conditions under which collective or participatory decisions may raise welfare in defined ways. Presents the growing empirical evidence for an environment and development setting including common property issues (tragedy of the commons and competing models). Identifies what evidence exists for sharing norms on a background of self-interested strategies. Definitions of and reactions to equity and/or its absence are a focus. Providing scientific information for policy is another. Experimental and behavioral economics are frequently applied. Instructor: Pfaff
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