COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ACCUMULATION AND EFFECTS OF HEAVY METALS IN MARINE ORGANISMS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MCP 5022 ACCUMULATION AND EFFECTS OF HEAVY METALS IN MARINE ORGANISMS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ESIN SUZER

Offered to

MARINE CHEMISTRY
MARINE CHEMISTRY

Course Objective

Heavy metals among hazardous pollutants could be reached in the marine environment from urban and industrial discharges. Water-soluble compounds of heavy metals are creating environmental problems and also metal pollution in aquatic ecosystem. They provide the potential danger to humans because of persistency, toxicities at high concentrations, tends to accumulate in living tissues and taking biomagnification at food chain in ecosystem. Therefore, monitoring and control of heavy metals in aquatic ecosystems has been estimated as research subject. The purpose of this course is the uptake ways into the organisms and biochemical mechanism of heavy metals, uptake process to human at the top of the food chain and also briefly determination of effects of heavy metal pollution on living organisms.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being to classify of metals and describe the metal species in marine organisms.
2   Being to understand of physico-chemical influence of accumulation of metals at marine organisms.
3   Being to release uptake ways of metals to body, excretion from body, accumulation and enrichment at food chain.
4   Being to understand heavy metals effects on organisms
5   Being to describe detoxification systems in organisms
6   Being to understand monitoring methods of pollutants effects
7   Being to evaluate results of heavy metal analysis and to interpret scientifically and to produce scientific publications.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction
2 Life and heavy metals
3 Physico-chemical features influence of accumulation of heavy metals
4 Heavy metal and organism
5 Heavy metals effects on organisms
6 Laboratory treatment
7 Mid-term exam
8 Detoxification systems in organisms
9 Mobilization and food chain enrichment of heavy metals
10 Heavy metal levels in autotroph organisms
11 Heavy metal levels in heterotrophic organisms
12 Heavy metal levels in freshwater and marine fishes
13 Monitoring methods of pollutants effects
14 Laboratory treatment

Recomended or Required Reading

U. Förstner and G.T.W. Wittmann (Edits), Metal Pollution in The Aquatic Environment. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg NewYork Tokyo 1983.
Stanley E. Manahan (Edit), Toxicological Chemistry and Biochemistry. Lewis Publishers Boca Raton London NewYork Washington, D.C. 2003.
H. Parlak, Ö. Çakal Arslan, M. Boyacıoğlu ve M. A. Karaaslan, Ekotoksikoloji. Ege Üniversitesi Su Ürünleri Fakültesi Yayınları No:79, Bornova Izmir, 2009.
R.W. Furness and P.S. Rainbow (Edits), Heavy Metals in The Marine Environment. CRC Pres, Inc. Boca Raton, Florida 2000.
Michael J. Kennish (Edit). Practical Handbook of Estuarine and Marine Pollution. CRC Press, Inc. 1997.
Selected articles.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

This course is taught in the classroom in the form of presentations and discussions. Taking the course students are required to attend class and laboratory applications.

Assessment Methods

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Course Policies and Rules

Attendance is 75%. Students must read the relevant sections of topics each week. Students must participate discussions in class and need to be successful. Students must participate in laboratory studies.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof. Dr.Esin SUZER
Instutute of Marine Sciences and Technology
Inciralti, 35340 Izmir
e-mail esin.uluturhan@deu.edu.tr
tel: 2785565/114

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Tutorials 13 1 13
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 14 14
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 11 5 55
Preparing presentations 3 7 21
Reading 10 5 50
Midterm 1 3 3
Final 1 4 4
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 196

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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