MAC 662 - Environmental Photochemistry, Prof. Rod Zika

Outline:

1. Introduction
2. Characteristics of Light
   a. Sunlight
   b. Artificial sources
3. Optical characteristics of seawater
4. Photophysical and photochemical relationships
5. General primary photoreactions for different compound groups
6. Photosensitized reactions
7. Humic Substance
8. Aqueous media reactions
9. Trace elements
   Transition metals
   Hg, S, Se, I
10. Sea surface microlayer
11. Photochemistry of pollutants
    -petroleum products
    -pesticides, herbicides
12. Atmospheric heterogeneous reactions
13. Photochemical modeling