Oceanography 320
Aquatic Pollution
Fall Semester 2001
Monday/ Wednesday/ Friday 9:30-10:20
Marine Science Building (MSB) 315


Instructor: Dr. Edward Laws
Office: MSB 205C
Telephone:956-2912


Syllabus
Date   Topic Reference Chapter
August 27 Food Chain Theory 1
  29 Food Chain Theory 1
  31 Food Chain Theory 1
       
September 3 Holiday  
  5 Primary Production 2
  7 Primary Production 2
       
  10 Physical Factors Affecting Production 3
  12 Physical Factors Affecting Production 3
  14 Cultural Eutrophication - Lake Washington 4
       
  17 Cultural Eutrophication - Lake Erie 4
  19 Cultural Eutrophication - Kaneohe Bay 4
  21 Urban Runoff 4
       
  24 Sewage Treatment - Primary and Secondary 6
  26 Sewage Treatment - Primary and Secondary 6
  28 Sewage Treatment - Tertiary 6
       
October 1 Pathogens in Water Supply 7
  3 Toxicology 8
  5 Toxicology 8
       
  8 Toxicology 8
  10 Industrial Pollution - Hawaiian Sugar 9
  12 Industrial Pollution - Hawaiian Sugar 9
       
  15 Industrial Pollution - Pulp and Paper 9
  17 MID-TERM EXAMINATION  
  19 Pesticides - General 10
       
  22 Pesticides - General 10
  24 Pesticides - DDT 10
  26 Pesticides - DDT 10
       
  29 Pesticides - Alternatives 10
  31 Thermal Pollution 11
November 2 Thermal Pollution 11
       
  5 Metals - General and Mercury 12
  7 Metals - General and Mercury 12
  9 Metals - Lead 12
       
  12 Holiday  
  14 Metals - Cadmium 12
  16 Oil Pollution 13
       
  19 Radioactivity - Concepts and Toxicology 14
  21 Radioactivity - Concepts and Toxicology 14
  23 Holiday  
       
  26 Radioactivity - Concepts and Toxicology 14
  28 Acid Rain 15
  30 Acid Rain 15
       
December 3 Ground Water Pollution 16
  5 Plastics in the Sea 17
  7 Plastics in the Sea 17
       
  10 Anthropogenic versus 'Natural' Pollution  
  12 Review  
       
  21 FINAL EXAM  

Your grade in the course is based on the midterm exam (35%), final exam (45%), a scrapbook of current newspaper clippings on water pollution (15%), and attendance on a field trip (5%). The final exam will cover the entire course but will emphasize the material covered since the midterm. The scrapbook is to contain newspaper articles about water pollution that you find during the semester in the Honolulu Advertiser or Star-Bulletin dater from August 22, 2000 to December 5, 2000, inclusive. You are not to include articles from other sources or from other time periods. You are to organize the articles by category (e.g. oil pollution, eutropohication) and chronologically within each category. Indicate the newspaper and date beside each clipping. The scrapbooks are due on December 12. The day and time of the field trip are not yet fixed; we will visit the Hawaii Kai sewage treatment plant.