CIV 549 - Environmental Exposure and Risk Assessment

This course will introduce types of harmful pollutants, the pathways by which humans and ecological receptors are exposed to these pollutants, and the strategies used to monitor and measure exposure and to estimate risk. We will explore the mechanisms linking chemical exposure to biological effects and how these processes are measured and modeled to characterize risks, as well as concepts related to environmentally-relevant exposures involving multiple stressors. Methodologies to quantitatively estimate ecological and human health risk will be discussed and applied to case studies covering real-life pollutant exposure scenarios.

3 credits

Grading Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)