Covers the essentials of environmental chemistry and focuses on measurements that can be made in a typical undergraduate laboratory
- Provides a review of general chemistry nestled in the story of the Big Bang and the formation of the Earth
- Includes a primer on measurement statistics and quantitative methods to equip students to make measurements in lab
- Encapsulates environmental chemistry in three chapters on the atmosphere, lithosphere and hydrosphere
- Describes many instruments and methods used to make common environmental measurements