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MSCI 501E - Fundamentals of Environmental Chemistry, Toxicology and Pathobiology

Fall (2) Van Veld, Vogelbein Prerequisite(s): MSCI 330; BIOL 220  and BIOL 225 ; CHEM 103 .

This course emphasizes ongoing and emerging environmental concerns in the Chesapeake Bay and world ocean. Lectures will address basic concepts and mechanism of contaminant chemistry and toxicology, infectious and noninfectious diseases in aquatic organisms. Case histories will be used to illustrate sources, fate and effects of anthropogenic chemical contaminants, and the important role of environmental change on disease in marine and estuarine ecosystems.