Overview
Description
Chemistry and toxicology of toxicants in the environment, particularly pesticides. Other topics include metals, food additives and hazardous wastes.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall
Terms
fall
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- describe the exposure pathways and chemical characteristics of specific contaminants and contaminant classes that are most influential to their environmental and in vivo fate.
- summarize the major categories of toxicity responses and the contaminant classes associated with those responses.
- synthesize relevant concepts pertaining to the assessment of a specific ecosystem contamination problem and apply methods to quantitatively estimate toxicity and risk.
- identify gaps in understanding about the environmental fate and exposure consequences of an emerging contaminant and propose research opportunities for addressing those gaps.
- evaluate the bioaccumulation potential and toxicity risk to specific organisms of different contaminants using existing federal databases on physicochemical properties of contaminants.