Study Programmes 2015-2016
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| Practical evaluation of grounds and water ressources | ||||||||
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Duration :
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| 24h Th, 24h Pr, 24h AUTR | ||||||||
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Number of credits :
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Lecturer :
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| Gilles Colinet, Jean-Thomas Cornelis, Aurore Degré | ||||||||
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Coordinator :
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language | ||||||||
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January | ||||||||
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Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
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| Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program | ||||||||
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Course contents :
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| The course will deal with practical aspects of water and soil management. It will include numerous contributions from external speakers and some field visits.
The magistral courses will introduce (i) technical questions related to hydrologiqcal modelling (choice of the best model related to a question, scale issue, calibration & validation, nutrients modelling, ...), (ii) morphological and physico-chemical soil profile description, as well their evolution depending of environmental factors (geology, topography, vegetation, land use...) Practical exercices (computer and field trip) will illustrate these questions and make the student face real modelling challenges. They will have to be creative and critical. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| The course contributes to the development of following skills
- optimise and manage flows between water, soil, living world and atmosphere - conceive and put into practice remediation solutions in soil water plant systems - Conceive management and conservation projects in ecosystems at different scales Furthermore, it certifies the students capability to - adapt existing models to particular solutions in order to establish prediction, interpret results and draw conclusions - evaluation the sustainability of and environmental management system using existing data |
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Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
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| general hydrology, edaphology, soils hydrodynamic, water transfer modelling through soils, soil science, pedogenesis | ||||||||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| magistral courses and inversed lectures
conferences practical on computers filed visits |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| face to face | ||||||||
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Recommended or required readings :
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| The evaluation will be realised on the basis of
- written reports related to field trip and the practical work on computers using various models - written report related to a peronnal analysis of an environmental question, in the light of all the contributions received from the external speakers the final mark will be a weighted mean af all the marks under the condition that all these marks are equal or above 10/20. Otherwise, the lowest partial mark will be used as final. In case of second session, all the parts for which the marks were equal to or above 10/20 shall not be presented again. |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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| mandatory attendance | ||||||||
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Contacts :
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| Aurore Degré
Gilles Colinet Jean-Thomas Cornélis Water soil plant exchanges BIOSE GxABT ULG |
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