Water quality in aquaculture

• Perform safe work in the water chemistry laboratory.
• Describe fundamental chemistry concepts related to aquaculture water quality.
• Calculate masses, concentrations, and dilutions of substrates, chemical reaction rates and half-lives.
• Analyze redox equations and reaction stoichiometry.
• Conduct simple laboratory experiments to measure water quality parameters and describe laboratory test results in written reports.
• Describe and categorize the key water quality parameters in aquaculture.
• Summarize microbial groups and processes in aquaculture.
• Explain the connections between microbial groups and processes and physical and chemical water quality.

Water quality management in aquaculture is important, as the organisms produced in aquaculture systems, such as fish, shellfish, or algae, are sensitive to changes in physical, chemical, and biological parameters. Therefore, the water quality must be monitored and controlled to ensure good health, productivity, and quality of the organisms produced. This course consists of lectures providing the theoretical background on water quality parameters and fundamental processes, laboratory demonstrations and exercises to get hands-on experience on measuring water quality, and calculation exercises and group work assignments, where the theory is applied into real-life aquaculture conditions.

Duration of course: 6 weeks 2x per week
6 weeks in the last period of the 13-weeks period