Environmental Chemistry

The exploits of USD's Environmental Chemistry class as we explore the nature of pollution sources in San Diego.

24 May 2007

Water Conflict and Climate Change

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One of the many longterm effects of climate change is the change in precipitation levels througout the globe. As the climate warms the IPCC...
21 May 2007

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DDT is an important chemical to look at in its global use today for pesticide eradication in the war against Malaria. Here is an exerpt fro...
14 May 2007

Chlordane awareness

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Ever wonder what kind of chemicals are lurking around in the water and soil of your local streams and bays? Did you ever wonder how the the ...

Chlordane Still Present In Tecolote Canyon After Thirty Years Of Its Restricted Use

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Tecolote Canyon is a Nature Park located on the northern side of the University of San Diego campus, it extends quite a ways up north past m...
09 May 2007

Dogs Pose threat to water

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Do you have a Dog? If you do. Do you clean up after dog? After reading this article about how water gets contaminated from dog watse I tho...
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08 May 2007

Constructed Wetlands

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The section of the book on the processing of wastewater via an artificial marsh intrigued me to do some more research. There are two types ...
06 May 2007

a Greener Apple...?

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Apple has long been praised for generating products with a sleek, clean, modern design...so why doesn’t its company follow suit with respect...
03 May 2007

Water related Stresses of East and South Africa.

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Eastern and Southern Africa (especially the Horn) have been recently been under great pressure from contamination in the welled drinking wat...
30 April 2007

Perchlorates & Hypothyroidism

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Elevated levels of perchlorates in drinking water has been suggested to cause hypothyroidism by directly stopping the thyroid's abilit...
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25 April 2007

Bottled water vs tap water

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Ever wonder whats in water? it may seem simple enough. I mean water is water right? does it matter where it comes from? or does it matter wh...
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