This course explores a multidisciplinary approach to major types of chemical, physical, and biological pollutants that impact upon marine environments. This unit investigates pathways and effects of these pollutants on marine ecosystems and human health. Different approaches to the design of monitoring programs for detection and techniques for controlling pollutants are examined. Students will gain practical skills in sampling techniques and analyses of polluted samples. Essentially, the present health and safety of the Red Sea and Arabian Gulf will be studied along with the need for controlling pollution in these waters. The anthropogenic effects on estuarine and marine ecosystems from local, regional, and global perspectives will be covered, along with the types of contaminants, pollutants, eutrophication, oxygen demanding waste, oil pollution, and toxicity, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), halogenated hydrocarbons, trace metals, radioactive waste, dredging and dredged-spoil disposal as well as the effects of electric generating stations. Global, regional, and national marine pollution control activities will be reviewed along with selected case studies.
Course ID: SAFEN 611
| Credit hours | Theory | Practical | Laboratory | Lecture | Studio | Contact hours | Pre-requisite | 3 | - | - |
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