Pollution in the aquatic and soil environments negatively affects our quality of life and health, with anthropogenic activity releasing both inorganic and organic contaminants into waterways and soil environments.

In this course, you will learn about sample preparation techniques, analytical instrumentation and theories of physical processes to explore the fate, behaviour, and impact organic compounds and metals in our natural environment. You will use real-world examples to explore how we examine and treat contaminants from environmental matrices and learn how we can measure analytes at very low levels of using chemical instrumentation.