CH5042:03
Marine and Environmental Pollution
Townsville
36 lectures. Intensive mode, Orpheus Island Research Station. First semester.
Staff: Dr G Jones, Dr M Ridd.
This multidisciplinary subject is designed to provide the student with a basic understanding of pollution of the marine and terrestrial environments. Nutrients, eutrophication, toxic algal blooms and sewerage treatment. Heavy metal pollution. Acid mine drainage, acid sulfate soils and acid rain. Toxic organic chemicals. Chemical and biological effects of oil pollution. The atmosphere, greenhouse effect and climate change, upper atmospheric ozone depletion, tropospheric ozone enhancement. Site visits and fieldwork.
Learning Objectives:
- to help students understand the basic principles and interdisciplinary nature of marine and environmental pollution issues and to obtain an introduction to research in this area;
- to highlight the chemical basis of many of our pollution problems.
Assessment by a three-hour examination; literature review; seminar presentation.
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