Water Quality Assessment
For whom?
This course is aimed at professionals involved in water quality monitoring and assessment of surface waters, e.g. stationed at river agencies and at governmental and district water management authorities.
Dates, Fee, ECTS
Start: 06 March 2017
End: 24 March 2017
Deadline IHE application: 06 February 2017 - 23.59 (CET)
Course fee: € 2850
Learning objectives
Upon completion, the participant should be able to:
- Describe different water pollutant groups, their risks and fates, and ways of modelling these fates
- Describe and apply the different tools,criteria and assessment methods for succesful monitoring of surface waters in river basins
- Describe basic groundwater quality monitoring concepts
- Design sustainable water quality monitoring programmes for river basins
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
- Aquatic ecotoxicology: Environmental characteristics of pollutants; sources, transport and fates; risk assessment; QSARS; test organisms and methods
- Data analysis and presentation: descriptive statistics; statistical testing; using significance levels in water quality monitoring; regression analysis; exercises; presentation of data
- Water quality modelling: definitions and concepts; mathematical backgrounds; modelling BOD/DO in a river system; GIS modelling of a river basin; case studies and hands-on computer exercises
- Field and laboratory work in water quality monitoring: water and sediment sampling; storage and preservation methods; field measurements. Quality control in a laboratory
- Excursion(s) in the field of water quality monitoring and/or modelling.