COURSE UNIT TITLE

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

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

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

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

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes