Health, Safety, and Enviornment
The Lowell Program in Economic Geology was endowed by a gift from J. David Lowell to the University of Arizona.
Examples of existing courses that would fall under the Health, Safety, and Environment portion of the curriculum:
Subsurface Water: Introduction to fundamental field instruments used for vadose zone and subsurface field investigations (tensiometers, gravimetric methods, neutron probes, time domain reflectometry, lysimeters, and infiltrometers). Investigation and analysis of a (hypothetical) contaminated site. Surface water: Field methods of collection, compilation, and interpretation of data in surface water. Stream gaging, hydrography, limnology, evaporation studies, micrometeorological instruments and methods, slope-area method of indirect discharge measurement, flood plain mapping, and preparation of hydrologic reports.
Geographic information systems (GIS) as a tool for hydrologists and environmental managers. Topics relate to the application of GIS including classification and suitability analysis, interpolation techniques, terrain analysis, model integration, and visualization. Examines sources of potential error and the ramifications.
- GIS
- Classification and suitability
- Interpolation techniques
- Terrain analysis
- Model integration
- Visualization
Chemistry of natural waters, the predominant chemical processes affecting composition, classification, identification, and mobility of contaminants, as well as introduction to chemical and transport modeling. Focuses on inorganic chemistry. Applied techniques are incorporated into the course as chemistry lab, field lab, and computer lab classes.
- Composition of contaminants
- Classification of contaminants
- Identification of contaminants
- Mobility of contaminants
- Chemical and transport modeling
Environmental risk analysis, environmental economics, and quantitative benefit-cost-risk planning and regulation applied to water resources.
Fundamental concepts in the recognition, evaluation and control of health and safety hazards encountered in mining operations; includes a review of engineering management responsibilities to control accidents, a review of federal regulations and standards affecting the industrial workplace, and instruction regarding the interaction of industrial hygiene, safety, fire protection and workers' compensation to control losses resulting from industrial accidents.
- rock and support hazards (fall, fire and fumes, entrapment, explosions, electric shock)
- accident control