Environmental Characterization, Monitoring and Remediation

Code:

AMB333

Acronym:

AMB333

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Environment

Instance: 2013/2014 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Biology
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Environmental Sciences and Technology

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
L:CTA	37	Plano de estudos de 2008 até 2015/16	2	-	5	-
			3

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Objective

This discipline aims at giving the students a deep understanding of the processes involved in characterising, monitoring and recovering the environment, both in legal and procedural aspects, as well as in technical and scientific ones.

Learning outcomes and competences

Skills

The student should be able to participate in a multidisciplinary team under the framework of a characterisation, monitoring and recovering process, executing with a medium degree of autonomy all the tasks involved in this kind of process.

Learning Outcomes

The learning outcomes of the discipline translate in the development of the skills previously defined.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1 - Environmental characterization - general and legal framework; examples of the main types of methodologies; sampling - main constraints to be taken into account; case studies.

2 - Environmental recovery - general and legal framework; examples of the main types of methodologies; Scales in time and space - main constraints to be taken into account; case studies.

3 - Environmental monitoring - general and legal framework; examples of the main types of methodologies; Quality - certification and accreditation; case studies.

Mandatory literature

Nebel Bernard J.; Environmental Science. ISBN: 0-13-083134-4

Teaching methods and learning activities

Regular classes, using slide show presentations and case study analysis.

Field and laboratory classes to illustrate several of the methods referred.

Group work, to be presented by the students in the end of the semester.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Exame	60,00
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Total:	100,00

Eligibility for exams

Frequency of the classes, in the terms of the general legislation and regulations applicable.

Minimum grade of 45% in the final examination

Minimum grade of 45% in the presentation of the group work by the students

Minimum grade of 9.5 in 20 when adding the two components

Calculation formula of final grade

Final examination -60%

Group work - 40%

Examinations or Special Assignments

Besides the final examination, the student has to integrate a work group (with a number of members defined by the teachers as a function of the total number of students in the discipline) that will present in the end of the semester (normally in the last two classes) a work consisting in th definition of the scope of an EIA for a given project. The theme chosen by each group is previously agreed with the teachers.

Classification improvement

In the terms of the general legislation and regulations applicable.

There is no improvement of the grade of the group work.