DEN 339 - Marine Pollution

Course Objectives

1. Scientific examination of marine pollution
2. The judgements of pollution have to be quantified. In what way bad? How bad? Bad for whom?
3. A quantitative, step by step approach to this subject is clearly required
4. The examination of remediation and treatment methods of oil spills

Course Description

Introduction to marine pollution, Marine ecology, appraisal of the pollution from the ecologial view point, Characteristics of sea water, Structure and effects of pollutants, Legal aspects of marine pollution, Waste water treatment methods, Marine disposal of wastewater, ship based marine pollution and, treatment, oil and marine pollution, Remediation and of oil spills