Course Overview
This course provides an overview of limnology. It focuses on specific aspects of theoretical and applied limnology and environmental engineering required to undertake ecological restoration of lakes and reservoirs. The overview lectures discuss lake formation and basin morphometry, stratification and circulation, water chemistry (including nutrient and carbonate chemistry), BOD tests, and hypolimnetic oxygen depletion. Applied aspects of the course include experimentally determining re-aeration rates and sizing of hypolimnetic aeration/oxygenation and destratification systems, calculation of nutrient-loading programs for lake and reservoir enrichment, calculation of heat budgets, and use of nutrient-loading models to assess eutrophication risk. Students design a restoration proposal for a eutrophic winterkill lake.
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Integrate the concepts and principles of limnology relevant to ecological restoration projects.
- Integrate and adapt the concepts and principles of limnology in assessment and evaluation of degraded aquatic ecosystems.
- Collect data to assess a degraded aquatic ecosystem.
- Analyze and interpret aquatic data.
- Integrate the concepts and principles in designing restoration activities (restoration plan) for aquatic ecosystems.
Effective as of Winter 2025
Related Programs
Restoration of Lentic Ecosystems (ECOR 9220) is offered as a part of the following programs:
- Indicates programs accepting international students.
- Indicates programs eligible for students to apply for Post-graduation Work Permit (PGWP).
School of Construction and the Environment
- Ecological Restoration
Master of Science Full-time/Part-time
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