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Upper Hudson Dredging Debate part of Workshop 04:Activities
This exercise is intended to investigate, in detail, a current environmental problem, namely the environmental dredging of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from the Upper Hudson River. After an ...

Health Topics: Waterborne Transport Processes, Epidemiology and Risk Analysis, Organic Compounds, Airborne Transport Processes

Minerals in the Biosphere part of Workshop 04:Activities
Class is meant to expore 1)the continuum of geological, geochemical and biochemical environments 2)the logic in health issues in the USA 3)provide a multidisciplinary approach to personal and public ...

Health Topics: Epidemiology and Risk Analysis, Analytical Techniques, Public Policy, Heavy Metals, Waterborne Transport Processes, Minerals, Biogenic Hazards, Airborne Transport Processes

Explorations of Spatial Distributions of Environmental and Health-Related Data part of Workshop 04:Activities
This activity introduces the student to basic concepts of spatial distribution of environmental and health data with an easy to use on-line mapping program. -

Health Topics: Epidemiology and Risk Analysis, Waterborne Transport Processes, Other

Pathogenic Microorganisms in Water part of Cutting Edge:Hydrogeology:Activities
This activity introduces students to sampling and testing for microorganisms in different water sources. It also tests iodine tablets to kill coliform bacteria which interest many students. The ...

Health Topics: Waterborne Transport Processes, Biogenic Hazards

Save Crooked Creek! Remediation of a Service Station Site with a Leaking UST part of Cutting Edge:Hydrogeology:Activities
The student group (3 to 4 persons) is given information regarding a leaking UST at a gasoline station in western Pennsylvania; a page detailing the history of the problem and a small sketch map if ...

Health Topics: Waterborne Transport Processes, Organic Compounds

Using Data From the Arsenic Problem in Bangladesh part of Cutting Edge:Hydrogeology:Activities
The Arsenic in drinking water issue in Bangladesh presents a unique opportunity to motivate studying hydrogeology in context of water resources issues in the developing world. Students learn about ...

Health Topics: Waterborne Transport Processes, Heavy Metals

'A Civil Action' 1-D Transport Game part of Cutting Edge:Hydrogeology:Activities
The 'A Civil Action' 1-D Transport Game is executed in an EXCEL spreadsheet and is designed to help students learn why models are used by scientists and engineers and what procedures must ...

Health Topics: Waterborne Transport Processes, Organic Compounds

TCE Transport to Woburn Wells G and H part of Cutting Edge:Hydrogeology:Activities
Transport of TCE to municipal wells G and H in Woburn, Massachusetts and link between the consumption of the polluted water and the cluster of childhood leukemia cases in east Woburn in were the ...

Health Topics: Waterborne Transport Processes, Organic Compounds

Induced Infiltration Animation: Woburn Wells G & H and the Aberjona River part of Cutting Edge:Hydrogeology:Activities
Induced infiltration of surface water into an unconfined aquifer by municipal wells is a common occurrence and an increasingly important regulatory issue across the U.S. The role of the Aberjona ...

Health Topics: Waterborne Transport Processes, Organic Compounds

Teaching the nitrogen cycle and human health interactions part of Workshop 04:Activities
This activity uses objects, pictures, and text in a matching game to define the nitrogen cycle and the environmental and human health impacts of nitrogen. The game can be used to associate useful and ...

Health Topics: Other, Organic Compounds, Waterborne Transport Processes

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