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Module Number:
| 11226
- module is no longer offered from SS 2024 |
| Module Title: | Water and Aquatic Environment Management |
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Wassermanagement und wasserbezogenes Umweltmanagement
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| Department: |
Faculty 2 - Environment and Natural Sciences
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| Responsible Staff Member: | -
apl. Prof. PD Dr.-Ing. habil. Molkenthin, Frank
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| Language of Teaching / Examination: | English |
| Duration: | 1 semester |
| Frequency of Offer: |
Every winter semester
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| Credits: |
6
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| Learning Outcome: | Understanding of water resource management in respect to water quantity and quality, analysis and evaluation of the impact by human infrastructure, knowledge on European dimension in water management and the water sector. Basic understanding in water resource and evironmental modelling concepts and techniques. |
| Contents: | Freshwater bodies as ecosystems.
- Streams and rivers: characteristics, functional compartments, floodplain, hyporheic zone, biota and coupled ecosystem functions, importance of lateral and longitudinal connectivity
- Lakes and reservoirs: typology, genesis and importance as ecosystems and drinking water resource, limnic organisms, physical and chemical properties, biogeochemical turnover of matter, primary production, element cycles (C, N, P, S, Fe), matter balance, sediment-water interactions, interaction of organisms with water quality
Main water quality problems related to agriculture, forestry, urbanization and mining.
- Eutrophication, acidification, salinization, siltation, contamination
- Civil engineering and degradation of streams and rivers
- Expected impacts of global warming, neobiota
- Principles of sustainable water management
- Principles of lake diagnosis, modeling, quality assessment and evaluation as prerequisites for mitigation and restoration
- EU Water Framework Directive
Integrated Water Ressource Management (IWRM) in the world and the role of hydroinformatics tools and examples.
- Hydrological catchment modelling tools based on GIS
- Introduction to water quality modelling in rivers
- River catchment modelling and management considering hydrology, surface runoff, percolation, evapotranspiration, transmission losses, pond and reservoir storage, crop growth and irrigation, groundwater flow, nutrient loading and transport using computer based systems such as SWAT
Case study examples for exercises and assignments. |
| Recommended Prerequisites: | None |
| Mandatory Prerequisites: | No successful participation in associated phase-out module 41415 Einführung in Wassermanagement und wasserbezogenes Umweltmanagement. |
| Forms of Teaching and Proportion: | -
Lecture
/ 4 Hours per Week per Semester
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Exercise
/ 2 Hours per Week per Semester
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Self organised studies
/ 90 Hours
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| Teaching Materials and Literature: | see https://euroaquae.tu-cottbus.de |
| Module Examination: | Continuous Assessment (MCA) |
| Assessment Mode for Module Examination: | - Assignments (20%)
- Written (120 min) and oral (30-45 min) examination (80%)
The form and weighting of partial exams are bindingly determined in the first course weeks. |
| Evaluation of Module Examination: | Performance Verification – graded |
| Limited Number of Participants: | None |
| Part of the Study Programme: | |
| Remarks: | EuroAquae module: EA-1.3 |
| Module Components: | - 240509 Lecture Freshwater Ecology and Conservation
- 240632 Lecture/Exercise Computer based catchment and river modelling
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| Components to be offered in the Current Semester: | |
