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Our MSc Freshwater Quality Monitoring & Assessment online programme will provide existing or future water professionals with the necessary knowledge to design and implement freshwater quality monitoring programmes and to assess water quality. The programme is offered in a part-time, online format that facilitates study in your own time. It is useful to those already working in the water sector, including government agencies, and 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 module during the second year of the programme. The final year of the programme comprises an individual research project and written dissertation. Show less

Year 1: Core Modules (30 credits)

EV6001: Monitoring Programme Design for Freshwater Bodies
EV6002: Quality Assurance in Water Quality Monitoring Programmes
EV6003: Data Handling and Presentation for Water Quality Monitoring Programmes
Year 2: Specialised Modules (30 credits)

EV6005: Monitoring and Assessment of surface waters
EV6007: Monitoring and Assessment of groundwater
Plus any two of the following:

EV6004: Water Quality Monitoring in the Field (field course abroad or in Ireland)
EV6008: Water Quality Monitoring using Biological and Ecological Methods
EV6009: Water Quality Monitoring with Particulate Material
Year 3: Dissertation (30 credits)

EV6010: Dissertation in Freshwater Quality Monitoring and Assessment
Consult the Academic Calendar (MSc Freshwater Quality Monitoring & Assessment) for further course and module content.

Modules
Further details on modules can be found in our Book of Modules. Any modules listed are indicative of the current set of modules for this course but are subject to change from year to year.

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