COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SOURCES AND FATE OF TRACE METALS IN AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MCP 6007 SOURCES AND FATE OF TRACE METALS IN AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT 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

PROFESSOR DOCTOR NIHAYET BIZSEL

Offered to

MARINE CHEMISTRY
MARINE CHEMISTRY

Course Objective

To supply the students who are interested and/or educated in marine and environmental sciences with the most updated information and knowledge on the trace metals and related abiotic and biotic porcesses in aquatic systems. The course explaines fundementals concepts; vital importance of some trace metals for phytoplankton such as Fe, Zn, Mn and Cu especially biochemical and ecological mechanisms, scientific interest and research activities on the role of some trace metals ( as micronutrient or toxic substance) in marine primary productivity, the pathways of biological process of these metals interlinked with each other and with particulate, colloidal and dissolved organic matters, speciation, bioavailability and toxicity of trace metals and mutual relation between microorganisms, trace metals and organic matters both from the productivity and ecotoxicological perspectives both in open ocean and coastal waters.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To study fundamental concepts and vital importance of trace metals in aquatic environment
2   To introduce students to thetrace metals and related biotic-abiotic processes in aquatic ecosystem,
3   To introduce students to phytoplankton ecology and the vital importance of some trace metals for them,
4   To evaluate the bioavailability, toxicity and speciation of the trace metals
5   To gain experience in data analysis and presentation of results.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction of trace metals and their biological roles,
2 Trace metals in seawaters: Sources of trace metals, oceanic sink, adsorption and precipitation
3 Distribution of trace metals in coastal waters and estuaries: Types of metal distributions, Diagenesis
4 Distribution of trace metals in sediments: Sources of trace metals to sediments, Redox condition in marine sediments, Postdepositional migration of metals
5 Midterm exam
6 Bioavalability and bioaccumulation: Biological interactions, The biogeochemistry of trace metals, Limitation of trace metals, Utilization and control of trace metals, Toxicity of trace metals
7 Transformation among different forms:Chemicl speciation of trace metals
8 Biologically mediated dissolution, Photoreaction of trace metals
9 Selected hot topic (DISCUSSION)
10 Sudent assignment
11 Midterm exam
12 The fate of pollutants in the marine coastal environment: Why pollution is hard to measure, Contaminants
13 Analytical methods for the determination of trace metals: Historical perspective, Sampling and data quality
14 Student assignment

Recomended or Required Reading

Susan M Libes. An Introduction to Marine Biogeochemistry. John Wiley and Sons Inc 1992.
D. R Turner and K A Hunter (Editor) The Biogeochemistry of Iron in Seawater. John Wiley and Sons Inc 2001
Werner Stumm and James J Morgan Aquatic chemistry. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 1981.
Michael E Q Pilson. An Introduction to the chemistry of the sea. Prentice-Hall Inc 1998.
Roy Chester Marine Geochemistry Chapman and Hall 1990
Tom Garison. Oceanography Brooks/Cole 2001.
Michael J Kennish. Practical Handbook of Estuarine and Marine Pollution. CRC Press Inc 1997.
Lecture notes and handouts and some selected contemporary articles.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures will be held as presentations.

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 * 0.20 + ASG * 0.40 + FIN * 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.40 + RST * 0.40


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Deniz Bilimleri ve Teknolojisi Enstitüsü
Prof Dr Nihayet Bizsel nihayet.bizsel@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Ofiice hours will be informed on the office door.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 11 2 22
Preparation for final exam 1 24 24
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 10 4 40
Preparation for midterm exam 2 10 20
Preparing assignments 2 24 48
Midterm 2 3 6
Final 1 5 5
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 165

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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CONTACT INFORMATION
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