Environmental Monitoring and Modelling
For whom?
This course is aimed at professionals involved in the monitoring and assessment of the different environmental compartments, e.g. stationed at river basin authorities and at environmental departments and agencies.
Dates, Fee, ECTS
Start: 24 April 2017
End: 12 May 2017
Deadline IHE application: 24 March 2017 - 23.59 (CET)
Course fee: € 2850
Learning objectives
Upon completion, the participant should be able to:
- Describe and apply main monitoring requirements and programmes for surface water, groundwater and air, and some common analytical techniques used therein.
- Describe and apply the different criteria for successful monitoring of lakes and rivers.
- Describe and apply basic Environmental Impact Assessment techniques.
- Describe and apply a number of water quality models as a tool in Environmental management.
Course content
This three weeks course offers the following subject matters:
- Fresh water quality and monitoring: natural water quality and water pollution; designing and optimization of water quality monitoring programmes; physico-chemical and biological water quality assessment; groundwater quality monitoring: definitions; locations; frequencies
- Field and laboratory work in water quality monitoring: water and sediment sampling; storage and preservation methods; field measurements. Quality control in a laboratory; advanced environmental analysis techniques, using Gas chromatography (GC) and Atomic adsorption spectrophotometry (AAS)
- Water quality modelling: definitions and concepts; mathematical backgrounds; modelling BOD/DO in a river system; GIS model of a river basin; case studies and hands-on computer exercises;
- Air quality monitoring and modelling: climate and weather; sources and fates of air pollutants; impact and control; air quality standards; lecture and workshop in air quality monitoring and modelling
- Excursion in the field of water quality monitoring and/or modelling.