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Chemistry Department

The Chemistry Department teaches, through theory and practice, the geochemical processes, mineral reactions, and fluid-rock interactions that underlie energy resource extraction. Students carry out project work in (1) CO2 mineralization kinetics, (2) PHREEQC-based speciation modeling, (3) hydrocarbon PVT behavior calculation, and (4) clay diagenesis interpretation — using these four projects to demonstrate, hands-on, their command of chemical problems in resource and environmental settings.

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Field-based Curriculum · 16

This department's curriculum is built directly on the GeoVerse Lab research fields its professors hold — click a field to see how it is taught.

Foundations of Modern Chemistry
Foundations of Modern Chemistry
A course on the foundations that made chemistry quantitative, centring on Lavois…
Antoine Lavoisier
Organic Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
A course on the synthesis and structure of carbon compounds, taking Woehler’s ur…
Friedrich Wöhler
Physical Chemistry
Physical Chemistry
A course treating chemistry with the tools of physics, centring on Debye-Huckel …
Peter Debye
Chemical Thermodynamics
Chemical Thermodynamics
A course on the theory governing the direction and equilibrium of chemical trans…
Josiah Willard Gibbs
Reaction Kinetics
Reaction Kinetics
A course on the rates and pathways of chemical transformation, centring on branc…
Cyril N. Hinshelwood
Electrochemistry & Thermodynamics
Electrochemistry & Thermodynamics
A course on the electrochemistry of redox reactions and low-temperature thermody…
Walther Nernst
Analytical Chemistry
Analytical Chemistry
A course on identifying and quantifying chemical composition, centring on the sp…
Robert Bunsen
Spectroscopy
Spectroscopy
A course on the foundations of reading composition from light-matter interaction…
Gustav Kirchhoff
Industrial Catalysis & High-Pressure Process Chemistry
Industrial Catalysis & High-Pressure Process Chemistry
A course on scaling bench reactions to industrial production, centring on the Ha…
Carl Bosch
Polymer & Macromolecular Chemistry
Polymer & Macromolecular Chemistry
A course on the statistical thermodynamics of macromolecular chains, centring on…
Paul Flory
Nuclear & Radiochemistry
Nuclear & Radiochemistry
A course on the chemistry of the atomic nucleus, centring on the discovery argum…
Otto Hahn
Thermochemistry
Thermochemistry
A course on the path-independence of reaction enthalpy, centring on Hess’s law a…
Germain Henri Hess
CO2 Mineralization & Carbon-Atmosphere Geochemistry
CO2 Mineralization & Carbon-Atmosphere Geochemistry
A course bridging deep-time carbon-atmosphere geochemistry with CO2 mineralisati…
Preston Cloud
Geochemical Speciation & Aqueous Equilibrium Modeling
Geochemical Speciation & Aqueous Equilibrium Modeling
A course on computing dissolved species in aqueous solution, centring on ion ass…
Niels Bjerrum
Hydrocarbon Phase Behavior & PVT Analysis
Hydrocarbon Phase Behavior & PVT Analysis
A course on the phase behaviour of reservoir fluids, centring on cubic equations…
Otto Redlich
Clay Mineral Diagenesis & Porosity Evolution
Clay Mineral Diagenesis & Porosity Evolution
A course on the chemical evolution of sedimentary rocks during burial, centring …
Francis J. Pettijohn