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The Course for 2007-8

 

Date

Location

Lecturer

Title (follow to Notes as Word files)

Links to Extra Info Where Available

1

21/01/08

SR3

RTL

 

Toxic effects : introduction to environmental toxicology    (short v as handed out in lecture)

 Longer version of notes

 

23/01/08

 

 

NO LECTURE

 

 2

28/01/08

 SR3

RTL 

Monitoring the environment – The utility of biological monitoring

 

3

30/01/08

SR3

RTL

Toxic metals: Sources, dispersal, and pathways

 

4

04/02/08

SR3

RTL

The importance of chemical speciation of toxins: Metals & Fluorides

 

5

06/02/08

SR3

RTL

Persistent organic pollutants: Pesticides, PCBs and dioxins

Our website on Organohalogens   

6

11/02/08

SR3

RTL

Pollutants in food chains : impacts on birds

 

7

13/02/08

SR3

RTL

Persistent organic pollutants: Endocrine disruption in rivers and estuaries
Notes on the the Yeast Assay for Oestrogenic chemicals are available here 

  Web page on Endocrine Disruption
 

8

18/02/08

SR3

RTL

Nuclear power, alternative technologies and radionuclides in food chains

 

9

20/02/08

SR3

RTL

Case history: Mercury I – Marine mercury pollution : a problem resolved?    

 For Background Reading and more detailed information for both lectures 9 & 10 try our dedicated website on Mercury

10

25/02/08

SR3

RTL

Case history: Mercury II – Global mercury pollution : an ongoing problem?  

 

11

27/02/08

SR3

RTL

Case History: Persistent  pollutants in the Baltic Sea & Great Lakes of North America (1)
The Baltic Sea

 For Background reading and useful links try our Baltic Sea website

12

03/03/08

SR3

RTL

Case History: Persistent  pollutants in the Baltic Sea & Great Lakes of North America (2)
Great Lakes

 Our separate web on the env problems of the Gt Lakes of North America 

 

 

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