Monitoring of environment

Petrova Olga Anatolyevna

The instructor profile

Description: The discipline considers a comprehensive information system for monitoring the state of the environment and Natural Resources, theoretical and methodological foundations of the natural environment, environmental properties and anthropogenesis of the region in order to analyze, evaluate, predict and control changes in their state under the influence of natural and anthropogenic factors; productivity and dynamics of the ecosystem, the degree of environmental sustainability of the landscape.

Amount of credits: 5

Пререквизиты:

  • Chemical Safety Basics

Course Workload:

Types of classes hours
Lectures 15
Practical works 30
Laboratory works
SAWTG (Student Autonomous Work under Teacher Guidance) 30
SAW (Student autonomous work) 75
Form of final control Exam
Final assessment method Written Exam

Component: Component by selection

Cycle: Base disciplines

Goal
  • To achieve a high quality of environmental knowledge in recognizing the geoecological situation and patterns of spatial differentiation of natural and technical Geosystems, to assess the prospects for the development of regional geoecological conditions through the prism of actions to monitor, analyze, evaluate and predict the state of the environment and Natural Resources.
Objective
  • -to study the theoretical scope of the course; - to analyze the laws of development of natural and technical Geosystems; - to have skills and abilities to determine the permissible norms of anthropogenic impacts on the natural environment; - to develop a scientifically based strategy in the field of optimizing the natural environment., - formation of skills and skills of analyzing specific material, - teaching students to make engineering decisions.
Learning outcome: knowledge and understanding
  • Knowledge of the level, structure and tasks of monitoring the human habitat; existing methods and means of studying the human habitat; features of the implementation of monitoring activities at the global, regional and local levels
Learning outcome: applying knowledge and understanding
  • Use of fundamental and new achievements in Environmental Protection; Assessment of the geoecological situation, use of the basic methodology of environmental monitoring, an information system for assessing the parameters of the environmental state, implementation of forecasting the state of natural and technical Geosystems in conditions of anthropogenic impact on the environment
Learning outcome: formation of judgments
  • Implementation of regulatory-technical and regulatory-environmental documentation, forecasting and development of environmental control methods
Learning outcome: communicative abilities
  • Professional implementation of its production and public activities and participation in the development and implementation of methods and programs in the field of environmental monitoring
Learning outcome: learning skills or learning abilities
  • Improving knowledge in the methodology of development and design of circuits, instruments, apparatuses and monitoring systems. Improving knowledge in the field of advanced scientific methods of monitoring and their use at the level necessary for the operational solution of problems.
Teaching methods

When conducting training sessions, it is envisaged to use the following educational technologies - interactive lecture (using the following active forms of teaching: executive (controlled) discussion or conversation; moderation; demonstration of slides or educational films; brainstorming; motivational speech); - creation of scenarios for the development of various situations based on the given conditions; - information and communication (for example, classes in a computer class using professional packages of application programs); - search and research (independent research activities of students in the educational process); - solving educational tasks.

Assessment of the student's knowledge

Teacher oversees various tasks related to ongoing assessment and determines students' current performance twice during each academic period. Ratings 1 and 2 are formulated based on the outcomes of this ongoing assessment. The student's learning achievements are assessed using a 100-point scale, and the final grades P1 and P2 are calculated as the average of their ongoing performance evaluations. The teacher evaluates the student's work throughout the academic period in alignment with the assignment submission schedule for the discipline. The assessment system may incorporate a mix of written and oral, group and individual formats.

Period Type of task Total
Total control Exam 0-100
The evaluating policy of learning outcomes by work type
Type of task 90-100 70-89 50-69 0-49
Excellent Good Satisfactory Unsatisfactory
Evaluation form

The student's final grade in the course is calculated on a 100 point grading scale, it includes:

  • 40% of the examination result;
  • 60% of current control result.

The final grade is calculated by the formula:

FG = 0,6 MT1+MT2 +0,4E
2

 

Where Midterm 1, Midterm 2are digital equivalents of the grades of Midterm 1 and 2;

E is a digital equivalent of the exam grade.

Final alphabetical grade and its equivalent in points:

The letter grading system for students' academic achievements, corresponding to the numerical equivalent on a four-point scale:

Alphabetical grade Numerical value Points (%) Traditional grade
A 4.0 95-100 Excellent
A- 3.67 90-94
B+ 3.33 85-89 Good
B 3.0 80-84
B- 2.67 75-79
C+ 2.33 70-74
C 2.0 65-69 Satisfactory
C- 1.67 60-64
D+ 1.33 55-59
D 1.0 50-54
FX 0.5 25-49 Unsatisfactory
F 0 0-24
Topics of lectures
  • The concept of monitoring and its elements
  • Types of environmental monitoring
  • The unified state system of monitoring natural resources and the environment and its tasks
  • Emergency control and forecasting
  • Emergency situations monitoring of sources of atmospheric pollution and physical impacts
  • Monitoring of the qualitative state of Water Resources
  • Monitoring of environmental objects, emergencies and their sources
  • Monitoring of the state of soil cover
  • Environmental protection in emergency situations
  • Organization of an emergency prevention and monitoring system at an industrial enterprise
  • Subsoil monitoring
  • Special types of monitoring
  • Monitoring, modeling and forecasting of dangerous natural phenomena and emergencies
Key reading
  • 1. Golitsin A.N. Industrial ecology and environmental monitoring – Moscow: IRPO, 2007. 2. Karakeyan V.I. Monitoring of environmental pollution. Textbook, Yurayt, 2016 - 397 p. 3. Gorshkov M.V. Environmental monitoring. Textbook / M.V. Gorshkov. - Vladivostok: Publishing House of TSEU, 2010. - 313 p. 4. Tikhonova I.O., Kruchinina N.E., Tens A.V. Ecological monitoring of water bodies. – M.: Infra-M, 2012. – 152 p. 5. Tikhonova I.O., Tarasov V.V., Kruchinina N.E., Environmental monitoring of the atmosphere. – M.: Infra-M, 2012. – 136 p.
Further reading
  • 6. Environmental Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 212 dated January 9, 2007 7. GOST 17... Nature conservation.