Units
Environmental Chemistry
Unit code: NQB602
Contact hours: 4 per week
Credit points: 12
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Focusing on fundamental environmental principles, this unit provides essential material for students majoring or co-majoring in any of several disciplines: earth science, environmental science, ecology, biodiversity and chemistry. Material covered includes: basic chemical principles underlying global, regional and local environmental processes; behaviour of natural and synthetic chemical species in the environment and biota (basic toxicology); and basic concepts in applied biogeochemistry, bioremediation and bioleaching. The unit also fosters development of practical and theoretical environmental monitoring skills using physicochemical parameters. Such monitoring data is used to promote informed environmental management through facilitation of scientific hypotheses testing about the environment; supply of data for model validation; testing compliance with regulations and guidelines; and providing data for environmental impact and risk assessment.
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