BIO9331 - Marine environmental issues
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Course content
The course provides an introduction into how current marine environmental problems including eutrophication, chemicals and persistent contaminants, oil pollution, acidification, climate change, sedimentary processes, alien species, radioactivity, and overexploitation influence marine ecosystems. Topics included are impact on individuals, populations, communities, food webs and species interaction. Other topics are:
•Impact studies, methods and data interpratation
•aims and strategies for marine environmental monitoring
•environmental management, risk and impact assessments
Learning outcomes
The course will give the students an understanding of current important marine pollution problems. It will also introduce the students to study method challenges, and to critical evaluation of reports, publications and environmental data. The course will cover effects studies, environmental monitoring, and evaluation of risk and environmental state from a scientific, regulatory and industrial perspective.
Admission
Contact the student administration office if you want to follow this course.
The examination in this course is not available for external candidates. Only students admitted to the course may sit for the examination.
Prerequisites
Recommended prior knowledge
Basic knowledge in general chemistry and biology, BIO4400 - Marine Pelagic Ecology , and BIO4301 - Marine benthic ecology.
Overlap
10 credits against BIO4330 - Effects of Pollution on the Aquatic Environment. 10 credits against BIO4331 - Marine environmental issues.
Teaching
The teaching will consist of lectures (the number of hours will variate every week, but is in general 6 hours a week), and mandatory groupwork. All groupwork is mandatory, but a maximum of 20% absence is accepted. The groupwork will consist of demonstrations, excursions and discussions. In addition there will be individual presentations. The students must also write two 10 page essays on given topics, which they will present in two 45 minutes lectures.
This subject uses Fronter.
Exam information
To get permission to take the final exam you have to pass the compulsory participation on the group work. Final written exam, 3 hrs, weighs 70% of the final mark. Essays and lectures weigh 15% each (30% of the final mark).
Exam resources
No special exam resources are allowed.
Assessment and grading
Students are awarded either a passing or a failing grade. Read more about the grading system .
Explanations and appeals
Information on how to complain on a grade, can be found here
Students can request an explanation of their grades, and can also appeal against their grades or make a complaint about formal examination errors. Read more about explanations and appeals
Possibility of make-up exams and re-takes
This subject offer new examination in the beginning of the
subsequent term for candidates who where sick (this must be legitimated), withdraw during an ordinary
examination or failed an ordinary examination. For general information
about new examination, see reglement for utsatt og ny eksamen ved MN-fakultetet
and the english version of the examination rules.
Withdrawing from exams and limits on re-takes
A student can sit for this exam up to 3 times. If a student wishes to withdraw from the exam, s/he must do this in StudentWeb at least two weeks prior to the first day of the exam. Failure to do so will be counted as one of the three opportunities to sit for the exam.
Exam options for students with special needs
Information on special facilities can be found here
Students may apply for access to alternative exam resources or exam forms on the basis of chronic illness and/or special needs that create a marked disadvantage to other students in the exam situation. Mothers who are breastfeeding may apply for extra time to complete the exam.
Evaluation of this course
Feedback from our students is essential to us in our efforts to ensure and further improve the high quality of our programmes and courses. As a student at the University of Oslo you will therefore be asked to participate in various types of evaluation of our courses, facilities and services. All courses are subject to continuous evaluation. At regular intervals we also ask students on a particular course to participate in a more comprehensive, in-depth evaluation of this course, a so called "periodic evaluation".
Periodic evaluation autumn 2010
Other information
Up to autumn semester 2009, this course was titled BIO4331 Pollution effects in marine environments.
Contact us
Department of Biology
Visiting address:
Kristine Bonnevie's building, Blindernveien 31
Visiting hours:
Postal address:
P.O.Box 1066, Blindern
NO-0316 Oslo
Fax: +47 22 85 47 26
E-mail: studieinfo@bio.uio.no
Web: http://www.mn.uio.no/bio/english/