BIOL 4720 - Sediment Toxicology

3 hours

Mechanisms of contaminant transport and fate in freshwater marine sediments and pollutant effects at the individual, population and biotic community levels. Sediment contaminant bio-availability and bioaccumulation into food webs and the scientific aspects of legal control and remediation of hazardous sediments.

Prerequisite(s): BIOL 1710/BIOL 1730 or BIOL 1711/BIOL 1733; BIOL 1720/BIOL 1740 or BIOL 1722/BIOL 1744; BIOL 2041/BIOL 2042 or BIOL 2140 or BIOL 2241 or BIOL 2251 or BIOL 2302/BIOL 2312; CHEM 1410/CHEM 1430; CHEM 1420/CHEM 1440; or consent of department.

May not be repeated at the graduate level as BIOL 5720.