Terminated in academic year 2023/2024

Environment Monitoring

Type of study	Bachelor
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	546-0521/01
Abbreviation	MonitorZP
Course title	Environment Monitoring
Credits	5
Coordinating department	Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator	Ing. Petra Malíková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Fundamentals of metrology and quality control monitoring.
2. Detection methods and principles. Optical and lectrochemical methods. Chromatographic methods and detectors. Methods of using ionizing radiation.
3. Apparatus and methods of organic geochemistry. Pyrolytic methods.
4. Biomonitoring - basic principles and methods. Examples.
5. Apparatus and methods for monitoring air emissions.
6. Apparatus and method for monitoring atmospheric deposition.
7. Apparatus and methods for monitoring surface waters.
8. Apparatus and methods for monitoring groundwater.
9. Apparatus and methods for monitoring soil water.
10. Apparatus and methods for monitoring soil gas.
11. Automation of measurement and data collection. Bus and interface.
12. Examples of implementation of automatic metering and telemetry.
13. Case studies of monitoring systems.

Literature

Zhang, Chunlong: 2007 Fundamentals of Environmental Sampling and Analysis. Wiley
Interscience, pp. 436
Solbe, J[Ed.]: 2005 Longterm monitoring. Why, What, Where, When and How? Sherkin
Island Marine Station, pp 226[367.7 SOLB]
Campbell, Regina, et al.: LANDFILL MONITORING, 2nd Edition, Environmental Protection Agency, Wexford, Ireland, 2003, p. 88,

Advised literature

DEBORAH V CHAPMAN, MICHEL MEYBECK, NORMAN E. PETERS: Water Quality Monitoring, Encyclopedia of Hydrological Sciences. Edited by M G Anderson, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2005
The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment, The
state of the nation’s ecosystems. Measuring the lands, waters, and living resources of the United States, the H. John Heinz III
Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, Washington, DC, 2002,
http://www.heinzctr.org/ecosystems/report. html.

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