The principles and methodologies for risk assessments will be presented within the context of state and federal regulations. Graduates from this course will be able to effectively determine the potential routes of exposure to contaminants, the amount of exposure, and the responses of various receptors to different contaminants. Students will also be able to quantify the potential risk to human and ecological receptors exposed to contaminants, and how this information contributes to environmental management decisions. Students will be assigned a risk assessment assignment distributed in week 1, and will perform a human and ecological risk assessment with the data provided. The results of the assessments will be submitted in three parts.
Students work independently on their papers.
Participation in discussions of the reading material. Endpoints for human health. Endpoints for ecological health.