Chem541 Fall 2008 Term Paper Topics

Seq Topic Presentation date
1 Air qulity Monitoring TBD
2 Atmospheric CO2: Measurements and Concentration Trend TBD
3 Atmospheric N2O: Measurements and Concentration Trend TBD
4 Black Carbon in the Atmospheric Environment TBD
5 Rain water chemical composition TBD
6 Can we fix the zone hole? TBD
7 Atmospheric Chemistry of Terprenes TBD
8 Atmospheric chemistry of Isoprene TBD
9 Sea Salt Aerosols TBD
10 Atmospheric Chemistry of Acetone TBD
11 Estimating Vapor Pressure for Organic Compounds  TBD
12 Geo-engineering Climate Change TBD
13 Sulfate Aerosol and Climate TBD
14 The CLAW Hypothesis* TBD
*Refer to a theory proposed by Charlson, Lovelock, Andreae, and Warren. Ref: "Oceanic Phytoplankton, Atmospheric Sulfur, Cloud Albedo and Climate", Nature, 1987, v326, n6114, 655-661.