| This module deals with the following: types, sources and fates of marine pollutants, pollutant transport and transformation, economic losses and effects on living marine resources and humans, effects of eutrophication, harmful algal blooms, marine biofouling, coastal water quality monitoring and assessment, bio-indicators for pollution control strategies, waste water treatment and bioremediation, functions of microbes in marine pollution and regeneration of nutrients, oil pollution and contingency planning, pollution control and international law. Particular emphasis will be on impacts from extractive and petrochemical industries, humic substances, fatty acids, heavy metals, PAHs and radioactivity in the marine environment. |
Administrative assistant: RAINA FERHANA HOSSENBUX
Telephone: 4037400
Email: r.hossenbux@uom.ac.mu |
