MS (Optional): Marine and Coastal Environment

PREFACE

The aim of this course is to introduce the students with marine and coastal environment. At the end of the course, the student will have the capacity to apply their knowledge in coastal and marine environmental management.

SYLLABUS

GETh 561: Marine and Coastal Environment        Credits: 4      
  1.  Marine and Coastal Environment: Meaning, Multidisciplinary Scope, Importance to study
  2. Relief of the Ocean: Continental shelves & slope, Ocean floor, coral reef relief of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean
  3. Ocean Sediments: Source of sediments, types, characteristics, depositional environments.
  4. Marine Environment: temperature; salinity; causes, changes, vertical and horizontal distribution, Implication. Marine climatic Zone, EL-Nino
  5. Sea-level change: Definition, causes, past, present and future trends of S. L. changes, consequences of  S. L. changes.
  6. Coast: Definition, classification Delineation, and characteristics,
  7. Coastal Landform:  Cliff, Sand dunes, Shores, beaches, Tidal flat Mud flat, lagoons.
  8. Coastal Process: tide, wave, ocean current, Sedimentation;  Basic Concept of Sediment transport, Sediment sources, sizes, distribution
  9. Estuaries: Definition, types, processes and morphology
  10. Marine and Coastal Resources: Flora and Fauna, Coral Reef, Mineral Resources,
  11. Marine and Coastal Disaster: Cyclone, Storm Surges, Tsunami, Bank Erosion, Salinity Intrusion
  12. Coastal Zone Management: Concept, Policies, ICZM, Land Reclamation, Coastal Zoning, Protection and Defense, Management techniques, Community Participation, Coastal Conservation
  13. Coastal Geography of Bangladesh: Classification, characteristics, human intervention
  14. Bay of Bengal with emphasis on EEZ of Bangladesh and estuaries: Resource Utilization, SL. change. Govt. policy on Bay of Bengal.
Selected Readings
  1. D. Raffaelli and S. Hawkins Intertidal Ecology 1997
  2. J. Pathick A. Introduction to Coastal Geomorphology 1986
  3. E.C. Birds, Submerging Coast 1993
  4. S.C. Snedakar and J.G. Snedakar, The Mangrove ecosystem 1984
  5. M.S. Islam 2001 Sea  Level Changes in Bangladesh: Last 10,000 years, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh

 CLASS SCHEDULE

 Lecture-1: Marine and Coastal Environment: Meaning, Multidisciplinary Scope, Importance to  study

Lecture-2: Relief of the Ocean: Continental shelves & slope, Ocean floor, coral reef.

Lecture-3: Relief of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean

Lecture-4: Ocean Sediments: Source of sediments, types, characteristics, depositional environments.

Lecture-5: Marine Environment: temperature; salinity; causes, changes, vertical and horizontal Distribution

Lecture-6: Marine Environment: Marine climatic Zone, EL-Nino, La-Nino

Lecture-7: Sea-level change: Definition, causes, past, present and future trends of S. L. changes consequences of Sea Level changes.

Lecture-8: Coast: Definition, classification Delineation, and characteristics

Lecture-9: Coastal Landform:  Cliff, Sand dunes, Shores, beaches, Tidal flat Mud flat, lagoons.

Lecture-10: Coastal Process: tide, wave, ocean current,

Lecture-11: Coastal Sediment Dynamics; Basic Concept of Sediment transport, Sediment sources, sizes, distribution

Lecture-12: Estuaries: Definition, types, processes and morphology

Lecture-13: Marine and Coastal Resources: Flora and Fauna, Coral Reef, Mineral Resources

Lecture-14: Marine and Coastal Disaster: Cyclone and Storm Surges and Tsunami

Lecture-15: Marine and Coastal Disaster: Bank Erosion, Salinity Intrusion, Man-made disaster

Lecture-16:  Coastal Zone Management: Concept, Policies, ICZM, Management techniques,

Lecture-17: Coastal Zone Management: Land Reclamation, Coastal Zoning, Protection and Coastal defense, Community Participation, Development activities, Conservation

Lecture-18: Coastal Geography of Bangladesh: Classification, characteristics, dynamics, biodiversity, environment

Lecture-19: Coastal Geography of Bangladesh: human intervention and environmental issues

Lecture-20: Bay of Bengal: Bottom Topography  Tide, Wave and Ocean current, sediment dispersion

Lecture-21: Bay of Bengal: Pollution,  Government Policy, Delimitation of Marine boundary, Resources and Resource utilization

 

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