Introduction to Environmental sciences

Course Information
TitleΕΙΣΑΓΩΓΗ ΣΤΙΣ ΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΕΣ ΤΟΥ ΠΕΡΙΒΑΛΛΟΝΤΟΣ / Introduction to Environmental sciences
CodeΜΠΙΑ001
Cycle / Level2nd / Postgraduate
Teaching PeriodWinter
CoordinatorTheodora Papamitsou
CommonNo
StatusActive
Course ID600016946

Programme of Study: PPS Health and Environmental Factors

Registered students: 49
OrientationAttendance TypeSemesterYearECTS
CoreCompulsory Course116

Class Information
Academic Year2023 – 2024
Class PeriodWinter
Faculty Instructors
Instructors from Other Categories
  • Dimitrios Avtzis
Weekly Hours2
Class ID
600242747
Course Type 2021
General Foundation
Mode of Delivery
  • Face to face
  • Distance learning
Learning Outcomes
After successful completion of this module, students will be able to: • Describe basic concepts such as extreme weather and understand climate change issues. • Define concepts such as climate, weather, environment and mortality. • To appreciate the relationship between people and the natural environment. • Relate public health risks to climate, environment, insects and interannual changes. • Interrelate climate change with insect reproduction and movement and assess the implications of these phenomena for public health. • To connect the atmospheric environment and the interactions of the climate with man. • To relate the immunobiological system to the natural environment. • To assess air pollution and its effects on public health. • Define concepts related to drinking water and correctly evaluate its quality control. • Assess the biological origin of allergens and relate them to atmospheric phenomena.
General Competences
  • Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
  • Make decisions
  • Work in an international context
  • Work in an interdisciplinary team
  • Generate new research ideas
  • Design and manage projects
Course Content (Syllabus)
1. INTENSE WEATHER PHENOMENA - CLIMATE CHANGE 2. PREDICTION OF SEVERE WEATHER PHENOMENA 3. CLIMATE MODELS – CLIMATE DATA 4. ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION AND PUBLIC HEALTH 5. CLIMATE - WEATHER - ENVIRONMENT AND MORTALITY 6. INSECTS, MAN AND THE ENVIRONMENT 7. HUMANS, ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CONNECTIONS AND INTERACTIONS 8. DRINKING WATER - QUALITY CONTROL 9. ALLERGENS OF BIOLOGICAL ORIGIN IN THE ATMOSPHERE 10. SUSPENDING PARTICLES OF THE ATMOSPHERE
Educational Material Types
  • Notes
  • Slide presentations
  • Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
  • Use of ICT in Course Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Communication with Students
  • Use of ICT in Student Assessment
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
Lectures60
Reading Assigment30
Written assigments50
Exams20
Total160
Student Assessment
Description
• Weekly Multiple Choice Quiz (Significant Difficulty) • Evaluation of the comments submitted by each learner in the online discussion groups • Written assignment with presentation • Evaluation in Greek language • The evaluation methods and method are explained to the students at the beginning of each semester and are listed on the university e-learning platform.
Student Assessment methods
  • Written Exam with Multiple Choice Questions (Formative)
  • Written Assignment (Formative)
  • Performance / Staging (Formative)
  • Report (Formative)
Bibliography
Additional bibliography for study
1. The simulation of European heat waves from an ensemble of regional climate models within the EURO-CORDEX project 2. Regional climate hindcast simulations within EURO-CORDEX: evaluation of a WRF multi-physics ensemble 3. Reviews and perspectives of high impact atmospheric processes in the Mediterranean 4. Climatological aspects of extreme precipitation in Europe, related to mid-latitude cyclonic systems 5. A study of fog characteristics using a coupled WRF–COBEL model over Thessaloniki airport, Greece 6. Fog characteristics at the airport of Thessaloniki, Greece 7. Characteristics of the extreme warm and cold days over Greece 8. Assessment of the surface water quality in Northern Greece 9. Chemical characterization and source identification/apportionment of fine and coarse air particles in Thessaloniki, Greece 10. Assessment of the environmental hazard from municipal and industrial wastewater treatment sludge by employing chemical and biological methods 11. Toxicity and heavy metal contamination of surficial sediments from the Bay of Thessaloniki (Northwestern Aegean Sea) Greece 12. A study of surface water quality in Macedonia, Greece: Speciation of nitrogen and phosphorus 13. PM10-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the Greater Area of Athens, Greece 14. Chemical mass balance source apportionment of PM10 in an industrialized urban area of Northern Greece
Last Update
01-02-2024