COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MARINE PROCESSES AND POLLUTION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MCP 5012 MARINE PROCESSES AND POLLUTION ELECTIVE 2 0 0 7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

MARINE CHEMISTRY
MARINE CHEMISTRY

Course Objective

The aim of course is to familiarize the graduate students to the behaviour of pollutants in marine environment. Marine quality parameters will be introduced with special reference to their importance. It will develop the students abilities for understand better the environmental problems of the pollutants.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   will be able to identify and describe the types of natural and anthropogenic activities which are responsible for marine pollution,
2   will be able to review and evaluate the effects of pollution on marine organisms and the marine environment generally,
3   will be able to perform further explanations on nutrient cycles and quantitative relationships,
4   will be able to have knowledge the state of Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Pollution; categories of additions, nature of inputs, sources of inputs, defining pollution, priorities, approaches to pollution control
2 Measuring Change; toxicity, antagonism and synergy, community response.
3 Nutrients; nitrogen, chemical forms, fixation, nitrogen cycle and distribution of nitrogen in the marine environment.
4 Phosphorus; chemical forms, phosphorus cycle, distribution of phosphorus in the marine environment.
5 Silica; chemical forms, geochemical cycle of silica.
6 Other nutrients and correlations between nutrients
7 Mid-term examination
8 Metals; conservative pollutants, input routes, uptake of metals, mercury, cadmium, copper, lead, tin, iron and other metals
9 Oil Pollution; Inputs, what is oil , fate of spilled oil, treatment of oil at sea, beach cleaning, toxicity of petroleum hydrocarbons, environmental impact of oil pollution, impact of offshore operations, public health risk from oil pollution, commercial damage from oil pollution
10 Halogenated hydrocarbons; Low molecular weight compounds, pesticides and PCBs, inputs to marine environment, fate in the sea, biological effects of halogenated hydrocarbons, environmental impact of halogenated hydrocarbons, threat to human health.
11 Radioactivity; Nature of radioactivity, units, inputs of radioactivity to the sea, environmental impact of radioactivity, hazard to human health
12 Dredging, solids, plastics and heat; dredging, industrial wastes, artificial reefs, litter and plastics, munitions, heat
13 The State of Turkish seas
14 Assignment

Recomended or Required Reading

-D.F. Martin, Marine Chemistry, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 1970, 451p.

-R. Chester, Marine Geochemistry, Chapman&Hall. 1993, 698p.

-R.B. Clark, Marine pollution, Clarendon Press, 1997, 161p.

-M.E.Q. Pilson, An introduction to the Chemistry of the Sea, Prentice Hall, Upper
Saddle River, New Jersey 07458, 1998, 431p.

-U. Förstner and G.T.W. Wittmann, Metal Pollution in the Aquatic Environment, Springer-
Verlag, 1983, 486p.

-B.B. Jorgensen and K. Richardson, Eutrophication in Coastal Marine Ecosystems,
American Jeophysical Union, Washington DC, 1996, 273.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The course is taught in a lecture, class presentation and discussion format. All class members are expected to attend both the lecture and take part in the discussion sessions. Besides the taught lecture, group presentations are to be prepared by the groups assigned for that week and presented to open a discussion session.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.25 + ASG *0.25 +FIN *0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.25 + ASG *0.25 +RST *0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Reading the related parts of the course material each week, attending the course and participating in class discussions are the requirements of the course. Any unethical behavior that occurs either in presentations or in exams will be dealt with as outlined in school policy.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof. Dr. Filiz Küçüksezgin
Deniz Bilimleri ve Teknolojisi Enstitüsü
Inciraltı 35340, Izmir
Tel: 232-278 55 65/120
E mail: filiz.ksezgin@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday-Thursday
10:00-12:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 1 36 36
Field study 1 24 24
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 171

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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