As in a professional office, students will work in teams to obtain experience in cooperative action and in the management of time and effort. Projects will be selected in order to expose students to the complexity of real problems, and to suggest the range of policy and planning issues which students might encounter after graduation. Senior practitioners in the Toronto region work with students in the Workshop. Detailed study of recent trends in soil erosion research with particular emphasis on detailed analysis of recent research literature. Qualitative and quantitative description of the chemistry and movement of contaminants in the environment, focussing on terrestrial and freshwater systems.
Landscape controls on water chemistry of streams.
Small watershed ecosystems approach and hydrological flowpath-chemical interaction perspective. Students will be exposed to field and laboratory work and expected to conduct independent study. For graduate students, a large emphasis of this course is placed on independent study and they should contact the instructor about potential project topics. Simple approaches to modelling the energy transfer and evaporation from individual types of surfaces are explored, and comparisons with field data are made. The problem of transfer between adjacent surfaces is also examined to introduce the multiple surface problem in environmental modelling.