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EV5514: REMEDIATION TECHNOLOGY FOR GEOSCIENCES (2015-2016)

Last modified: 25 Mar 2016 11:38


Course Overview

Provides students with a technical working knowledge of the environmental legislation, management and mitigation in a global context;

Evolution of technical skills in defining incidents through quantitative risk assessment;

Ability to use qualitative and quantitative data in understanding the fate and potential harm of environmental pollutants with specific reference to oil and gas;

Use of evidence based lines of evidence in developing critical thinking and interpretation;

Encourages presentation of quantitative data and extrapolation to genuine scenarios.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term Second Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus None. Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Professor Graeme Paton

Qualification Prerequisites

None.

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Either MSc Integrated Petroleum Geosciences (Studied) or MSc Oil and Gas Enterprise Management (Studied)
  • Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

In addition to lectures, practical classes, tutorials ad field trips there is an online moodle-based learning system that will be core to the learning experience. This will enable scientists with broad numerical skills to rapidly enhance their soecialisation within this discipline. The moodle-based learning system was developed for both university and CPD learning to enable users to make the use of genuine data in understanding the underlying concepts of this course. Each of the assessments are based upon genuine sites using data collated for this very purpose. Each of the stages of the training require integration with a set of medels that are widely used internationally for the diagnosis and mitigation of contaminated land.

Associated Costs

None

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

More Information about Week Numbers


Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

100% continuous assessment- composed of: 40%- Phase 1 desk top study of a contaminated site; students recieve a significant wolume of data and use this to develop a client- focussed appraisal; 20%- Phase 2 design of a sampling strategy for a contaminated site; 15%- Phase 3 cost analysis for the remediation campaign of a given site 25%- critical appraisal of optimal remediation trategies and comparative evaluation.

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Feedback

None.

Course Learning Outcomes

None.
 

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