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Pollution sources and exposure agents,

Environmental monitoring processes

Scientific basis for establishment of environmental monitoring network

Quality Assurance (QA)/ Quality Control (QC) in environmental monitoring
This course provides students a thorough understanding and appreciation of ecosystems by describing the biota, abiotic components, interactions, and physical drivers of each major ecosystem type.

In order to understand an individual ecosystem, it is imperative to have a firm grasp on general ecologic concepts that explain ecosystem organization and function.

The course will begin with such concepts (e.g., succession, material cycles, and energy webs) and then use a systems ecology framework to describe individual ecosystem types (e.g., estuaries, lakes, rivers,…).

Ecosystem services, major stresses, and management considerations of each ecosystem will be emphasized throughout.

The course will conclude with ecological applications, namely restoration and ecological engineering.


- Knowledge: The basic principles of equilibrium chemistry, particularly as they apply to aquatic systems, have served as indispensable tools for understanding the composition of, and direction of change in environmental systems.

- Skills: Students are able to explain the chemical phenomena in water and processes in nature, thus offering the optimal methods to solve environmental related issues.

This course comprises three major parts:
1. Water chemistry. 2. Atmospheric chemistry. 3. Soil chemistry.
- Water chemistry introduces acid-base equilibrium, complex chemistry, oxidation-reduction reaction, solubility chemistry, biochemistry in water, water pollution and water treatment.
- Atmospheric chemistry includes particles in the atmosphere, gaseous inorganic air pollutants, organic air pollutants, photochemical smog and the endangered global atmosphere.
- Soil chemistry, the soil characteristics and soil pollution problems would be included.
This course comprises three major parts:
1. Water chemistry. 2. Atmospheric chemistry. 3. Soil chemistry.
- Water chemistry introduces acid-base equilibrium, complex chemistry, oxidation-reduction reaction, solubility chemistry, biochemistry in water, water pollution and water treatment.
- Atmospheric chemistry includes particles in the atmosphere, gaseous inorganic air pollutants, organic air pollutants, photochemical smog and the endangered global atmosphere.
- Soil chemistry, the soil characteristics and soil pollution problems would be included.
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