Universität Wien

300206 VO Introduction to Marine Pollution (2020S)

3.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 30 - Biologie

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

Language: English

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Monday 19.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Übungsraum 5

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This course begins by introducing basic ecotoxicological concepts and then illustrates marine pollution based on the topics oil, heavy metals, halogenated hydrocarbons, radioactivity, eutrophication, and marine debris; marine fisheries and mariculture are presented as examples of the use and abuse of marine resources.

Assessment and permitted materials

erster Prüfungstermin Ende Juni, zweite Prüfungstermin: ca. mitte Oktober 2020.
first exam date in late June, second exam date sometime in mid-October 2020. Exam is a mixture of multiple-choice (single choice), true-false and short questions (in English, but answers can be in German)

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The exam has 50 points, you must reach 25 (50%) to pass, the grades 1-4 are divided equally between 25 and 50.

Examination topics

The questions are more or less equally divided according to the topics listed above under "Inhalt"

Reading list

Marine Pollution (5th edition, 2001), R.B. Clark, Oxford University Press, (239pp).
Marine Pollution, Frid & Caswell, Oxford Univ. Press (2017)(268 pp)
The basic course contents, i.e. a shortened and condensed version of the individual PowerPoint presentations, will be placed on Moodle.

Association in the course directory

WZB

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