Environmental Geochemistry

Catalog description

This course focuses on geochemical principles of key processes at Earth's surface environment. Course materials cover topics including the carbon cycle, mineral-water interactions, soil systems, erosion and weathering, and hydrological cycles. Students will learn foundational theories, applications, and recent research progress to gain a comprehensive understanding of Earth's environment through the geochemical lens. The grad version of this course will contain advanced content in assignments that involve more quantitative materials and rigorous coding work for reproducing important results in classical literatures, and a full term project and a writing report.