Lecture 5 and 6- Detecting change:Monitoring the environment.

Question 1

So Why Monitor the Environment?

Answer 1

• to test environmental
  modeling processes,
• to understand
  environmental conditions,
• to inform policy design and
  decision-making (perhaps
  security and emergency
  preparedness as well?)
• to ensure compliance with
  environmental regulations,
• to assess the effects of
  anthropogenic influences,
• or to conduct an inventory
  of natural resources

Question 2

what does Shifting baseline syndrome (SBS) mean

Answer 2

is a psychological and sociological
phenomenon whereby each new
human generation accepts as natural
or normal the situation in which it
was raised

Question 3

give an example why long-term monitoring is important

Answer 3

More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas?

Question 4

what is the Keeling Curve

Answer 4

measure of the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere annually in Mauna Lao since 1958

Question 5

How to monitor the
environment –environmental science
and monitoring?

Answer 5

• Biological indicators
• Chemical indicators
• Technology – sensors
• Analytical chemistry
• Spot samples versus
  semi(continuous)sampling
• Remote sensing
• Citizen science

Question 6

what does the WFD stand for

Answer 6

water framework directive

Question 7

what is Physicochemical monitoring

Answer 7

• Causes of pollution
• Quantity of pollutants in water
• Lends itself to technological
  application

Question 8

what is Biological monitoring

Answer 8

-Effects of pollution
-Quality of water

Question 9

what is Envisat

Answer 9

Operated by the European Space
Agency, it was the world’s largest civilian Earth observation satellite

Question 10

what is a Environmental
Sensor

Answer 10

device that receives and responds to a signal or stimulus – i.e. whose
purpose is to detect events or changes in its environment and report that information

Question 11

Spatially distributed, autonomous sensors def

Answer 11

that monitor physical or environmental
conditions, e.g. temperature, sound,
pressure, etc and to cooperatively pass their data through the network to a main location

Question 12

High Frequency or Semi-continuous
monitoring/continuous monitoring

Answer 12

more data

Question 13

what are the fundamental compoments of Data integrity and monitoring

Answer 13

the application of quality assurance and quality control measures
during the data collection process,
data storage and access,
and the consultation of experienced statisticians during the
sampling design process

Question 14

Environmental monitoring def

Answer 14

the (systematic) sampling of air, water, soil,
and biota in order to observe and study
the environment