Winter Semester 2012/13
Environmental monitoring AM2015
Course content:
Lectures
Environmental Monitoring - goals; systems and measurement techniques in environmental monitoring, collecting and processing environmental database, monitoring of air, water, sediments, soil, noise, forests, electromagnetic fields, biomonitoring, the State Environmental Monitoring Programs -including European and global monitoring
Laboratory:
Creating monitoring program based on choosen area, analysis based on the area maps, descriptions of the measurement points with sources of pollution, database preparation based on: air quality, water quality, noise, field electromagnetic, identification of pollution sources of the analyzed components of the environment; Explanation of modeling and forecasting environmental quality based on monitoring data.
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
Effect of the course:
Student defines aims and tasks of environmental monitoring and the establishment of monitoring individual components of the environment;
explains the importance of modeling and forecasting environmental quality based on monitoring data (indicators of environmental quality);
discusses the design of the unit monitoring territorial analyzes based on area maps, presents criteria for selecting the positions, prepares analysis of test results and process monitoring data;
presents the project on monitoring of water, air, soil, noise, electromagnetic radiation in selected area
Assessment criteria
Laboratory:
To get mark C, student:
1. defines aims and tasks of environmental monitoring
2. Creatie monitoring program based on choosen area
3. Prepare database based on: air quality, water quality, noise, field electromagnetic,
To get mark B, student:
4. reach points 1-3
5. presents steps of choosing measuring points, knows how to take and preserve samples
6. Analyzes test results and process monitoring data
To get mark A:
7. reach points 1-6
8. knows how t to identify the source of contamination
9. Explains the importance of modeling and prognosing environmental quality based on monitoring data
Marks C+ and B+ will get students who will make all requirements from the points 1-3 and 4-6 or in addition to requirements of a higher level.
Lecture
Test consists 10 questions Questions are rated on a scale 2,0-3,0-3,5-4,0-4,5-5,0. C (6 points), C+ (7 points), B (8 points), B+ (9 points), A (10 points).
Test (45 minutes) goes without the use of notes, other materials and support and without communicating with other people.
Bibliography
a) basic: National Environmental Monitoring Program, IOS, www.gios.gov.pl, Environmental Protection, Information and Statistical CSO Website: Inspection of Environmental Protection, Information on the state environmental sanitation in the province of Podlasie in Bialystok WIOŚ.
b) supplementary: Integrated Monitoring of Environment. Principles of organization, Library of Environmental Monitoring, Warsaw, later than 2000, Reports on the state of the environment. Library of Environmental Monitoring, Warsaw, later than 2000