UFCH020 Fundamentals of Environmental Geochemistry

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Summer 2016
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Růžena Hledíková (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Růžena Hledíková
Centrum interdisciplinárních studií – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Prerequisites (in Czech)
V případě, že student nemá základy chemie ze střední školy, doporučuje se absolvovat předmět UF/CH010 "Všeobecná chemie".
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course introduces students to the principles of geochemical processes and migration of elements and organic pollutants in the environmental media (water, soil, air), including anthropogenic processes. Attention is paid to environmental problems and applications (remote transmission of pollutants, geochemistry of the landscape).
Syllabus
  • Basic principles of geochemical migration of elements in the environment - endogenous and exogenous factors. Geochemical background and its relevance to the assessment of contamination. Geochemical anomalies, geochemical dispersion halo. Geochemical barriers. Litogeochemistry, hydrochemistry, atmogeochemistry, biogeochemistry. Natural radioactivity of elements. Biogeochemical cycles of elements organogenesis. Biogeochemical migration of minority and trace elements. The organic geochemistry. Remote transmission of pollutants. Geochemistry of the landscape. Geochemistry of recent sediments. Tasks and application of environmental geochemistry. Heavy metals in the environment. Persistent organic pollutants (POPs). Principles of bonds of trace elements and organic pollutants in soils, assessing their mobility and degradability. Sorption parameters. Partition coefficients. Migration in the soil - soil water - groundwater system. Occurrence and mobility of pollutants in groundwater in the area landfills. Characteristics of binding heavy metals and organic pollutants and assessment of their migration due to the physico-chemical parameters.
    Current information and additional study materials can be found here: http://www.hledik.org/
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Raclavský K., Raclavská, H., Homola, V. Geochemie. Výukový CD-ROM VŠB-TU Ostrava, 2001. info
Teaching methods
Lecture with a video analysis
One-to-One tutorial
Skills demonstration
Assessment methods
Test
Oral exam
The analysis of student 's performance
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
Semestral exam has two parts: (1) Presentation of essays: Student orally presents pre-prepared essay on the topic specified individually during the teaching period of the course. Student submits to the teacher the material(s) which he (she) used in the essay preparation. (2) Oral exam: the content of the semester curriculum. The student draws one question from the following list.
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2012, Summer 2013, Summer 2014, Summer 2015, Summer 2017, Summer 2018, Summer 2019, Summer 2020, Summer 2021, Summer 2022, Summer 2023.
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