Integrated monitoring systems

obligatory courses

General knowledge of the processes occurring in the natural environment, with special attention to the geological environment. Knowledge of hydrology, hydrogeology, building, infrastructure, spatial planning.

The essence, scope, research methodology, tasks and legal basis of the functioning of environmental monitoring in Poland. Types of observation networks, their organization, principles of organizing and conducting observations, in particular with regard to monitoring of inanimate nature.

The state of the environment in Poland with regard to the State Environmental Monitoring System.

1. Monitoring of the environment – objectives and tasks of environmental monitoring:

1.1. review of literature,

1.2. basic definitions,

1.3. legal basis for monitoring in Poland.

2. Subject of monitoring – landscape, geology and ecosystem:

2.1. application of the theory of systems in environmental monitoring:

2.2. concept of geosystem functioning – environmental components.

3. Fundamentals of monitoring organization and functioning:

3.1. definitions,

3.2. role of time and space in the research,

3.3. outlines of the classification,

3.4. rules for sampling

4. Metrological basis for environmental monitoring – part I:

4.1. definitions and terms

4.2. measurement paths,

4.3. sensors, transducers,

4.4. metrological characteristics of the measurement system.

5. Metrological basis for environmental monitoring – part II:

5.1. selected elements of measurement methodology,

5.2. measurements at a distance,

5.3. basic types of recording devices.

6. Organization and structure of the State Environmental Monitoring System (PMŚ):

6.1. Environmental Inspection Monitoring

6.2. State of the environment in Poland with regard to PMŚ test results;

6.3. PMŚ publications.

7. PMŚ emission studies:

7.1. monitoring of emissions to air,

7.2. wastes

7.3. impurities in water.

8. PMŚ immission studies, principles of organization and operation, environmental assessment with regard to the results of observations:

8.1. air pollution monitoring,

8.2. noise monitoring,

8.3. monitoring of surface water (rivers and lakes).

9. PMŚ immission studies – continued, principles of organization and operation of environmental assessment with regard to:

9.1. monitoring of sediments,

9.2. monitoring of soil and Earth’s surface,

9.3. monitoring of living nature,

9.4. integrated environmental monitoring,

10. PMŚ immission studies – continued, groundwater,

10.1. groundwater monitoring – rules of organization and functioning,

10.2. national groundwater monitoring systems,

10.3. hydrogeological stations – examples of using automatic measurements.

11. Groundwater monitoring:

11.1. regional and local networks,

11.2. groundwater field studies,

11.3. groundwater status with regard to the results of observations.

12. System of quality assurance and control in environmental monitoring:

12.1. procedures and control of the analytical process,

12.2. errors of monitoring studies: identification of errors, verification of sets of observations,

13. Databases of environmental monitoring:

13.1. Groundwater monitoring database – SOH

13.2. Dictionary of the most important monitoring concepts.

14. Monitoring system of inland waters – Eurowaternet.

15. Cross-border monitoring.

On completion of the course, the student:

- has skills in relation to groundwater and landfills,

- is able to design local and shielding monitoring networks,

- develops, interprets and evaluates the reliability of the observations,

- assesses the state of the environment based on monitoring results

- assesses the state of the environment in the region (province, catchment area), based on monitoring of basic environmental components.

Attendance control; activity in classroom; preparation of a report of an integrated monitoring system for a selected object or area.