Educational guide 2023_24
Facultade de Ciencias do Mar
Grado en Ciencias del Mar
 Subjects
  Marine contamination
   Methodologies
Methodologies   ::  Teaching methodology guide
  Description
Lecturing The theoretical contents that will be evaluated in two calls, one exam along the course and another at the end.
Seminars The basic scheme of the seminars consists in the following: 1. preparation by the student of a questionary and a practical case available through TEMA. 2. handing over the questionary to the teacher at the beginning of the seminar. 3. resolution and discussion of the case in common with the teacher.
Attendance is mandatory.
Studies excursion Field trip to a supposedly polluted zone with basic sampling material for sediments, water and biota. Collection of representative samples with support of the professor for further analysis in laboratory.
Attendance is mandatory.
Laboratory practical The practices consist in a field trip to an impacted site in the Port of Vigo, and the collection of environmental matrices (water sub-superficial with oceanographic bottle, sediment with *draga Vain *Veen dredge) and native mussels , with object to realize a series of observations, chemical analyses and biological essays in the laboratory, including the solids in suspension, phosphates, BOD5 and faecal microorganisms in water, organic matter, presence of indicator species and ecotoxicological bioassays with the sediments.
After the days of laboratory the data obtained are shared in the TEMA platform, and individual memories must be ellaborated and handed over to the teacher by the date of the final exame.
Attendance is mandatory.
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