Subject: ENSP 310: Environmental Monitoring and Characterization – New –
Summer Session I

Description:
Dr. Greg Schnarr will be teaching a new course that will provide hands-on
training in environmental monitoring and characterization field techniques
common in the environmental consulting industry, including groundwater,
surface water, stormwater, soil/vadose zone, soil-vapor, surface air, and
pore-water sampling.  Topics covered will also include monitoring program
design, interpretation and reporting of monitoring results, and review of
applicable regulations driving environmental monitoring programs.

Special topics will be covered relating to current environmental issues of
concern at contaminated sites, such as vapor intrusion of organic
contaminants from the subsurface into indoor air.  A comprehensive case study
will be evaluated at the end of the course, wherein many of the covered
monitoring techniques are currently being applied and results are synthesized
to build a conceptual site model.  By the end of the course, students will
have working familiarity with common environmental monitoring and
characterization methods.

The course will include a series of field trips to ongoing environmental
monitoring sites in the Washington DC metro area (such as those compiled
here).   Prior to the site-visit students will review available documentation
regarding the site monitoring program.  During the site visit students will
walk the site, review the site history and ongoing practices, and apply
environmental monitoring field methods.

This course will provide excellent preparation for entry-level positions as
environmental scientists in engineering and consulting terms.  The
pre-requisites are: CHEM131 or CHEM135; and (ENSP101, GEOL100, GEOL120,
ENST200, GEOG201, or ENCE100).

Dr. Schnaar has significant practical experience managing environmental
monitoring programs in private environmental consulting, and has authored
U.S. EPA guidance documents on environmental monitoring project design and
implementation.  For more information, please contact him at:
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Contact Person: Dr. Greg Schnaar
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