Online Courses Handbook 2003

306379 (v.2) Environmental Monitoring 501

Area:	Department of Environmental Biology
Contact Hours:	2.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Ecological resilience, natural variability, levels of biological organisation, diffuse versus point-source contamination and field versus laboratory toxicology. Legislative requirements, endpoints and interpretation, methodologies, monitoring of urban environments, advantages and limitations of biomarkers, interpretation and confounding factors. Classes of contaminants, target organs, modes of action and acceptable impacts of anthropogenic activities.