{"id":13137,"date":"2026-05-15T11:46:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/?p=13137"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:46:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:46:04","slug":"maf-415-marine-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/2026\/05\/15\/maf-415-marine-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"MAF 415, Marine Pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Required for :<\/strong> Elective<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Typical Semester :<\/strong> Spring<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Typically Taught By :<\/strong> Rick Burroughs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Examines sources, impacts, and regulation of marine pollution.&nbsp;MAF 415.&nbsp; Marine pollution policy.&nbsp; The scientific background of risks related to marine pollutants forms a basis for evaluating contemporary domestic government programs to manage them.&nbsp; Topics include mercury poisoning, plastics, organic chemicals, sewage, stormwater, oil, and radionuclides.&nbsp; In recent years students have completed a final project on a marine Superfund site to learn how pollution control policies are actually implemented.&nbsp;<br>Successful completion of this course will enable you to:<br>-connect human activities on land or at sea to observed pollution of marine waters<br>-identify the severity of the impacts from pollutants by consideration of dose-response relationships<br>-characterize pollutants and identify their inputs, fates, and effects<br>-explain how steps in the policy process apply to marine pollution control<br>-critique the strengths and weaknesses of domestic law and regulatory structures for pollutants<br>-assess whether selected pollution controls as implemented are fair<br>-create possible solutions to remedy or avoid marine pollution<br>-communicate the effects of marine pollution on the environment and on human well-being.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Required for : Elective Typical Semester : Spring Typically Taught By : Rick Burroughs &nbsp;Examines sources, impacts, and regulation of marine pollution.&nbsp;MAF 415.&nbsp; Marine pollution policy.&nbsp; The scientific background of risks related to marine pollutants forms a basis for evaluating contemporary domestic government programs to manage them.&nbsp; Topics include mercury poisoning, plastics, organic chemicals, sewage, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[244],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-course-details"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13138,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13137\/revisions\/13138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}