Environmental Organic Chemistry and Modeling
This course uses different modeling concepts to investigate how physicochemical properties and environmental factors affect contaminant transport and fate in the environment, bioaccumulation of contaminants in food webs and human exposure to contaminants.
The knowledge is useful in research within environmental chemistry and (eco)toxicology, risk analysis, environmental consultancy, chemical regulation and chemical stewardship in industry.
Topics covered include:
- Physicochemical properties of organic contaminants
- Partitioning of organic contaminants between air, water, soil, sediment and biota
- Transport processes and reactions of organic contaminants in the environment
- Basic modeling concepts and application of multimedia environmental models to contaminants
- Modeling bioaccumulation of contaminants
- Modeling pathways of human exposure to contaminants
- Application of models in regulatory work
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Course structure
Teaching format
Course includes lectures, seminars, exercises and modelling workshops.
Assessment
Knowledge assessment takes place through oral and written assignments and a written exam.
Cheating and plagiarism
Cheating of every kind is wholly unacceptable and Stockholm University takes this matter extremely seriously.
By cheating is meant, for example, that students cooperate in an unauthorized way, use unauthorized resources or otherwise try to cheat in the examination. To use another person’s expressions or ideas without stating the source is plagiarism. To translate and/or change some words in someone else’s text and present it as your own is also a form of plagiarism. Plagiarism is considered cheating and if discovered in an exam or paper, the exam or paper will be failed immediately and disciplinary measures may be taken.
Any student who is caught cheating or disrupting academic activities may be suspended from lectures and exams for a period of up to six months. The Vice Chancellor or the Disciplinary Council decide whether the student is to be subject to any disciplinary measures.
Read more about the rules and regulations here:
Guidelines for Disciplinary Matters at Stockholm University
Your rights and responsibilities as a student
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Schedule
The schedule will be available no later than one month before the start of the course. We do not recommend print-outs as changes can occur. At the start of the course, your department will advise where you can find your schedule during the course.Course period 2020: Tue 3/11 2020 - Fri 15/1 2021
Course period 2021: Mon 1/11 2021 - Fri 14/1 2022
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Course literature
Note that the course literature can be changed up to two months before the start of the course.
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Course reports
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More information
Required course for MSc in Environmental Science.
Elective course in the natural sciences.
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Contact
Study counsellors
Course coordinator
Ian Cousins, Ian.Cousins@aces.su.se
Department of Environmental Science, unit of Contaminant Chemistry
