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 791-309 Water Resources

Credit Points

10

HECS Band

2

Coordinator

Mr Roger Wrigley

Prerequisites

Chemistry I; Soil and Water Resource Conservation (or equivalent).

Semester

1, repeat Summer (view timetable)

Contact

3 hours per week

Subject Description

The objective of this subject is to enable students to gain knowledge of:

  • the ecology and productivity of natural waters and the hydrological cycle;

  • and nutrient cycling processes of waters and sediments and the human impact of these processes.

The content includes physical and chemical characteristics and processes occurring in natural waters; chemical profile of natural waters; nutrient cycling and biological processes in waters and sediments; primary and secondary production, measurement and estimation; and entrophication and pollution processes.

Assessment

2-hour examination (60%); project report of 3000 words (40%).

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