BIO9331 – Human Impact on the Marine Environment

Course content

The course provides an overview of how current marine environmental problems including eutrophication, toxic algal blooms, climate change and acidification and introduction of waste, contaminants, oil pollution, nano particles and species influence the marine environment. Topics included are impact on individuals, populations, communities and food webs. Other topics include aims and strategies for environmental monitoring and efficient environmental management and how to consider environmental risk and perform impact assessment.

Learning outcome

After completing the course you will have the following competence:

  • Understand current important marine environmental problems.
  • Have insight into method challenges, and be able to critical evaluate reports, publications and environmental data.
  • Have insight into national and international environmental legislation and important international treaties.
  • Have basic understanding of effects studies, environmental monitoring, and evaluation of risk and environmental state from a scientific, regulatory and industrial perspective.

Admission to the course

PhD candidates from the University of Oslo should apply for classes and register for examinations through?Studentweb.

If a course has limited intake capacity, priority will be given to PhD candidates who follow an individual education plan where this particular course is included. Some national researchers’ schools may have specific rules for ranking applicants for courses with limited intake capacity.

PhD candidates who have been admitted to another higher education institution must?apply for a position as a visiting student?within a given deadline.

The courses BIO4331 and BIO9331 have joint admission. Applicants are ranked by the following criteria:

1. PhD candidates?and master students at the MN faculty who have the course as part of the approved curriculum.

2. Other PhD candidates?and visiting PhD candidates.

3. Students with admission to single courses on master’s level and exchange students

Applicants are ranked by credits in each group; all applicants within 1st rank before applicants in 2nd etc. If admission is limited to a f