Our online Postgraduate Diploma in Freshwater Quality Monitoring &  Assessment 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 will be 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. To be eligible to transfer to the MSc in Freshwater Quality Monitoring and Assessment a student must obtain a pass mark of at least 40% in each taught module and an aggregated mark of at least 50% across the 60 credits from Years 1 and 2.

 

Year 1 (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