This 1.5-day course provides participants with an introduction to applied environmental chemistry principles and practices which underlie the release, fate and transport, sampling, analysis, and cleanup of chemicals contaminating environmental media, with particular emphasis on soil and groundwater. This course is designed for environmental professionals who are not chemists, but who require a basic knowledge of chemistry and environmental chemistry in their work. Some prior education in chemistry, to the high school level or above, is recommended, but not required.
Specific topics include a survey of selected chemical industries or processes that release hazardous chemicals into the environment; fate and transport of chemicals in environmental media; data quality objectives, including the control of false positive and false negative decision errors; and data usability, including defining detection limits and data qualifiers.
This course is preceded by the "Chemistry for Environmental Professionals - Fundamentals" course. Students are encouraged to request both courses when registering.
After completing this course, participants will be able to:
- Describe the chemical, soil, water, and geological properties which govern the fate and transport of chemicals in environmental media.
- List key chemicals and modes of release associated with selected chemical industries or processes.
- List chemical parameter changes associated with aerobic and anaerobic degradation of hydrocarbons in subsurface media.
- Identify the elements of the data quality objective (DQO) process.
- Evaluate the consequences of false positive and false negative decision errors.
- Describe procedures and practices commonly employed to ensure the quality and usability of analytical chemical data.
- Define common terms and parameters used to evaluate and communicate the quality and usability of analytical chemical data.
ABIH (American Board of Industrial Hygienists) has previously awarded CM (Certification Maintenance) credit for this event. The current event contains 11 hours which can be claimed from ABIH for CM credit.
The classroom version of this course is delivered over 1.5 days.
The virtual version of this course is delivered over two 5-hours days, for example, from 8:00 a.m. till 1:00 p.m.
Continuing Education Credits: 1.1
THIS COURSE IS NOT OPEN TO CONSULTANTS, CONTRACTORS, OR ANY PRIVATE ENTITIES.
*This course is offered free of charge to all registrants who are confirmed to attend.*
In compliance with Executive Order 13589 - Promoting Efficient Spending, Section 5; the ERTP will not be regularly printing or providing students hard copies of the course manual. A link to an
electronic copy of the student manual for personal printing or e-reading has
been provided in the Courses Materials section of this page.
Click on CEP-Applied Student Manual to download a pdf file of the portion of the manual that does not change course to course.