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Department of Environmental & Aquatic Animal Health - Research
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Environmental Toxicology and Risk Assessment
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- MS560 Fundamentals of Ecotoxicology (SPRING, 3 credit).
Prerequisite Basic Ecology. This course is an
introduction to ecotoxicology, the science of
contaminants in the biosphere and their effects on constituents of the
biosphere, including humans. The course provides a general
survey of environmental toxicology and risk assessment
from an ecological vantage.
- MS 640: Quantitative Ecotoxicology
(Spring, 4 credits). A presentation and discussion of essential ecotoxicological
principles and quantitative methods for the analysis of ecotoxicological data. Laboratory
exercises include method applications with PC-based software. Emphasis is placed on the
scientific and statistical soundness of techniques. The materials covered in this course
establish the foundation for a second course in environmental risk assessment (MS 641).
- MS 641: Environmental Risk Assessment
(Fall, 3 credits). Basic structure and methods for environmental risk assessment are
presented for retrospective and predictive assessments. Concepts associated with
ecological and human hazard and risk assessments are covered. Discussions of associated
logic and methods are framed around the NRC Paradigm of Problem Formulation/Hazard
Identification, Effects Characterization, Exposure Characterization, and Risk
Characterization.
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