Freshwater Quality Monitoring and Assessment Certificate

University College Cork - National University of Ireland, Cork

Date Posted: May 5, 2019
Submitted by: Claire Pope
Sustainability Topics: Curriculum, Water
Content Type: Academic Programs
Program Type: Post-Graduate Certificate/Diploma

Description

This United Nations (UN) Environment affiliated postgraduate diploma will provide existing or future water professionals with the necessary knowledge to design and implement freshwater quality monitoring and assessment programmes. The programme is offered in a part-time, online format that facilitates study in your own time. It will be useful to staff in higher level education institutes who wish to gain a specialised postgraduate qualification in surface and groundwater monitoring, quality assurance and control, and data analysis and presentation. Rivers, lakes and groundwaters are covered in detail and there is an option to study biological and ecological methods, the use of particulate material in monitoring and to take part in a field workshop either abroad or in Ireland during the second year of the programme.