Outline of lecture

This lecture is given to provide the fundamentals to understand aquatic ecosystems and their applications to assess aquatic environments for sustainable management. The fundamentals include aquatic chemistry, biogeochemistry, and aquatic ecology, which are common for freshwater and saltwater systems. The applied aspects emphasize freshwater ecosystems in relation to river environmental management.

Purpose of lecture

This lecture is given to provide the fundamentals to understand aquatic ecosystems and their applications to assess aquatic environments for sustainable management. The fundamentals include aquatic chemistry, biogeochemistry, and aquatic ecology, which are common for freshwater and saltwater systems. The applied aspects emphasize freshwater ecosystems in relation to river environmental management.

Plan of lecture

1) Guidance to aquatic environmental science
2) Present state of aquatic environments
3) Watershed hydrology
4) Basic analytical chemistry
5) Acidity, oxidation and reduction
6) Dissolution and deposition
7) Kinetics
8) Ecological risk assessment
9) Particle and colloid
10) Nutrient cycles
11) Organic carbon dynamics
12) Fate and transport of pollutants
13) Primary production and microbial decomposition
14) Trophic relationships
15) Biodiversity and ecological disturbance
16) Exam

Textbook and reference

Aquatic Environmental Chemistry (Oxford, 1998)

Related and/or prerequisite courses

Related subject
Water Management for Environmental Health (provided for undergraduate students)

Evaluation

Exercise/Discussion 50%, Exam 50%
More than 9 times of attendance are required for the credit.