TÓPICOS ESPECIAIS I: TRACE ELEMENTS BIOGEOCHEMISTRY IN ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENTS

Nome da Disciplina: TÓPICOS ESPECIAIS I: TRACE ELEMENTS BIOGEOCHEMISTRY IN ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENTS

Carga Horária: 30

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Introduction based on a case-study: Monitoring pollution in the coastal environment: experience(s) from a 40-yr monitoring programme. What are the costs, benefits of such a programme, both for society and for the scientists? Based on this introduction, I would then propose case studies: (1) The implementation of a set state of the art biogeochemical techniques (non-traditional stable isotopes) within the framework of an environmental monitoring programme. Can we use it to better track the sources, sinks and fates of environmental pollutants using novel analytical tools? The case will be made for Cu, Zn, Hg, C, and N and their isotopes; and (2) French and European- mandated environmental monitoring strategies: what do they do well, and why is their implementation what it is? Finally, I would reflect on regulations and directives: what are they based upon, what are their goals and what do they actually achieve? Participants to the summer school will then be involved in a practicum: construct and propose to set up a monitoring programme for some bay from Rio, given a set of constraints: environmental, human, financial, and practical. After the field trip and a laboratorial experience, the debriefing will enable the students to revise their programme, and more importantly, will have been familiarized with each of its critical element.