Water Pollution

• Understand the basic structure and functioning of aquatic ecosystems (lakes and rivers).
• Describe national and international water quality objectives.
• Identify threats to water quality (which pollutants, which regulations).
• Characterize sources, behavior and effects of organic, inorganic and biological water pollutants (e.g. BOD; nutrients; xenobiotics, invasive species)
• Get to know biological and chemical methods to measure and describe water quality (Saprobia index, chemical analysis).
• Learn about actual research about various chemical stressors for aquatic life.
• Develop and implement models for assessing water quality (oxygen models; transport models).
• Investigate rivers and lakes.
• Get to know restoration options for eutrophic lakes.

• Surface water pollution and quality problems
• Sources and mitigation of pollution impacting streams, lakes and coastal areas
• General water quality parameters (nutrients; organic matter, oxygen)
• Life in and under water
• Sediment as a source and sink of contaminants and nutrients
• Analysis of surface water systems using various modelling approaches.
• Environmental legislative framework
• Rivers, lakes and coastal waters

12102/12111/12320, You can take course 12104 in parallel.

lectures, lab exercises, excursion, computer modeling, classroom exercises, databar sessions