Surface Water Quality: management and modeling

As part of the course, students are offered 6 modules:

1. Sources of water pollution.
2. Types of water pollutants.
3. Surface water standards.
4. Water quality monitoring.
5. Water quality model use.
6. Water chemistry.

Course Outcomes:

• Explain unusual properties of water, describe the sources of water pollution
• Introduction to modelling, identifying problems, conceptualization and using mathematical tools to solve surface water quality and ground water quality problems
• Understand the idea, methodology and basic tools of water quality modelling
• Understand the different modelling approaches, their scope and limitations
• Develop models based on the mass-balance approach
• Predict the impact of external waste loading on different water bodies
• Predict and generate future conditions under various loading scenarios or management/intervention action alternatives
• Identify problems, conceptualise, formulate a model using few basic parameters
• Application of optimization techniques to water resources problems like water allocation from reservoir to different users
• Ability to distinguish between various water quality models and optimization techniques and choose an appropriate one to suit the objectives to be satisfied.

About the author

Kurbatova Anna I. 

PhD in Environmental Sciences. Associate professor of Environmental Monitoring and Forecasting Department, RUDN University.
 
Education:

• Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Ecological  Faculty. Postgraduate education: Ecological and  Biological speciality (Moscow, 2002 -2006)
• Peoples’ Friendship Universityof Russia, Faculty  of Physics,  Mathematics and Natural sciences. Diploma of Higher Education with honors, Master of Science in Chemistry (Moscow, 2000 - 2002)
• Peoples’ Friendship Universityof Russia, Faculty  of Physics,  Mathematics and Natural sciences. Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, degree with honors (Moscow, 1996 - 2000)