11813 - Environmental Techniques I Modulübersicht
Module Number: | 11813 - module is no longer offered from SS 2024 |
Module Title: | Environmental Techniques I |
Umwelttechniken I | |
Department: | Faculty 2 - Environment and Natural Sciences |
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Language of Teaching / Examination: | English |
Duration: | 1 semester |
Frequency of Offer: | Every winter semester |
Credits: | 6 |
Learning Outcome: | The objective of Environmental Techniques I is to train students in a range of standard methods for the examination of environmental quality including safe work practices and legal requirements for recording and preserving field and lab work. |
Contents: | Environmental Techniques I during the first half of the semester, introduces basic environmental science theory and skills. Students shall learn safe laboratory and field practices, standards for recording field and laboratory work, benthic invertebrate testing in a creek, chronic toxicity testing, the Winkler test for dissolved oxygen (DO), quick field assays for surface water nutrients, alkalinity testing with a pH meter, and analysis of results using a spreadsheet. Environmental Techniques I, during the second half of the semester, introduces basic microbiological theory and applied environmental microbiological skills. Students shall learn techniques including safe laboratory practices, isolating pure bacterial cultures from soil; identifying bacterial cultures as Gram + or -, as well as gross bacterial morphology, and biochemical identification; quantifying bacteria using spread plates, pour plates, optical density and membrane filtration; environmental microbiological applications such as bioremediation, isolation and cultivation of fungi, and food microbiology. |
Recommended Prerequisites: | none |
Mandatory Prerequisites: | None |
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Module Examination: | Continuous Assessment (MCA) |
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Evaluation of Module Examination: | Performance Verification – graded |
Limited Number of Participants: | None |
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Remarks: | No offer in WS 22/23! Complementary Module for ERM Bachelor |
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Phase-out module since: 25.04.2018
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