Unit 1 Environmental Monitoring

4 lecture hours

• Purpose of monitoring
• Scales of observation
• Environmental characteristics
• Representative units
• Sampling Location
• Types of environmental monitoring
• Sampling plan
• Analytical data quality requirements: Precision and Accuracy
• Detection limits
• Reporting data

Unit 2 Water Quality Monitoring

6 lecture hours

• Sampling techniques
• Preservation of water sample
• Physical Properties of water & its monitoring: Temperature
• Turbidity etc.
• Chemical Properties of water & its monitoring. 1.Electrometric method: pH 2.Colorimetric method 3.Spectroscopy method
• Standardization & calibration of monitoring instruments

Unit 3 Air Quality Monitoring

6 lecture hours

• Type of Air Quality monitoring - Ambient Air Quality monitoring
• Source Air Quality monitoring
• Ambient Air Quality Monitoring- Selection of monitoring sites
• Sampling time
• Frequency & mode of sampling
• Source Air Quality Monitoring – Type of Monitoring procedure

Unit 4 Environmental Microbial Properties & Processes 6 15

• Benefits of environmental microbes
• Microorganism in soil
• Sampling procedure for microbial characterization
• Methods for characterizing microorganisms & microbial properties in water & soil

Unit 5 Map, GIS & Remote Sensing in Environmental Monitoring

6 lecture hours

• Maps:- Principals of mapping
• Location and Land – Partitioning systems
• topographic maps
• Global positioning systems
• Geographic Information System( GIS):- GIS and Geographic Information Systems Data
• Remote Sensing: Physical Principles of Remote Sensing
• optical properties of earth surface materials
• remote sensing at landscape scale
• applications of remote sensing in environmental health & toxicology

Unit 6 Physical, Chemical and Microbial contaminants

6 lecture hours

• Physical contaminants – Naturally occurring particulates
• Human made particulates
• Mechanisms and control of particulate
• Chemical contaminant: - Type of contaminants
• Sources of Contaminants
• contaminant transport and fate
• Microbial contaminants:- Environmentally transmitted pathogens
• concept of indicator organisms
• sample processing and storage

Unit 7 Surface Water and Ground Water Monitoring

6 lecture hours

• Surface Water Monitoring:-Water Quality parameters
• sampling the waters
• Water sampling equipments
• Ground Water Monitoring: - Objectives
• Location of monitor wells
• well construction
• Design and Execution of ground water sampling programs