Robert B. Ambrose, Jr , US.EPA , Athens, GA,USA(retired)  Alpaslan Ekdal, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
Venue: IGEM Akademia, Istanbul
Course fee: 500  Euros

Program

Day 1 (22 March Monday) Introduction
09h00 – 09h30 Registration
09h30 – 10h00 Welcome and logistics
10h00 – 12h00 Introduction to water quality modeling
Introduction to simple lake, stream, and estuary
Formation of groups for free case study exercises
Introduction to WASP7
14h00 – 17h00 Practice session: Simple CSTR applications
Heat balance and temperature
pH,TIC, and alkalinity
Practice session: Temperature and pH in simple lake

Day 2 (23 March Tuesday) Hydrodynamic model
09h00 – 12h00 Advective transport
Boundaries and loading processes
Practice session: Watershed loading and stream transport
14h00 – 16h00 Dissolved oxygen and BOD
Practice session: DO balance in rivers
16h00 – 17h00 Dispersion
Linkage with hydrodynamic models in estuaries

Day 3 (24 March Wednesday) Nutrient model
09h00 – 12h00 Nutrient cycling and phytoplankton growth
Practice session: eutrophication in simple lake
14h00 – 15h30 Periphyton growth
Practice session: nutrients and periphyton in streams
15h30 – 17h00 Practice session: Eutrophication in simple estuary
Free exercises

Day 4 (25 March Thursday) Toxic model
09h00 – 12h00 Solids transport
Practice session: solids transport in streams
Simple toxicant modeling with WASP7
Practice session: simple toxicant modeling in lake
14h00 – 15h30 Organic chemical fate processes
Practice session: organic chemical modeling in lake
15h30 – 17h00 Metals and mercury modeling with WASP7
Free exercises

Day 5 (26 March Friday) Case studies
09h00 – 12h00 Discussion – practical issues in application of WASP7
Group case study exercises
14h00 – 16h00 Presentation and discussion of case studies
16h00 – 17h00 Review of course and discussion of future directions
End