Course Name 
Atmospheric aerosols in environment
Course Overview 
Level of study	Bachelor / Master Degree	
Workload	ECTS: 4
Total Hours: 58
Contact Hours: 54
•	Lectures: 18
•	Labs: 36	
Course Code		
Semester	Autumn or Spring	
Prerequisites	ecology, chemistry, geochemistry, mineralogy, atmospheric environment, environment science	
Course Objectives	to get knowledge about different atmospheric aerosol properties at local, regional and global scale	
Learning Outcomes
	Having successfully completed this module, you will:
know: 
•	the terminology relating to the atmospheric aerosol,
•	sources of aerosols, aerosol formation processes and aerosol classification,
•	aerosol effects on climate change,
•	remote sensing and ground-based instruments to collect and monitor aerosols, 
•	aerosol networks monitoring
•	human health effects of aerosols,
•	about snow cover as efficient scavenger of aerosols,
•	peculiarities of chemical and mineral composition of aerosols in urban and industrial areas
•	advanced methods for aerosol composition study
get practical skills in:
•	snow cover sampling and preparation to study aerosols,
•	determination of snow pollution level by particulate matter 
•	identification mineral and anthropogenic particulate matter deposited in snow cover
•	measuring mercury content in particulate matter deposited in snow cover
•	interpretation data of heavy metal content in particulate matter	
Syllabus
	Lectures:
•	Introduction
•	Introduction to aerosols
•	Methods for aerosol study
•	Health effects of aerosols
•	Snow cover is an efficient scavenger of aerosols in urban areas 
•	Dust load and mineral-phase composition of particulate matter deposited in snow cover in urban and industrial areas
•	Element composition of particulate matter deposited in snow cover in urban and industrial areas.	
Labs
	•	Terminology relating to the aerosols.
•	Aerosol study in your country
•	Snow sampling and preparation to recover particulate matter
•	Determination the level of particulates pollution with snow cover and passive methods
•	Study of mineral and anthropogenic particles in particulate matter with scanning electron microscope and binocular microscope
•	Identification of mineral phases in particulates by X-ray powder diffraction
•	Interpretation of chemical composition of particulates deposited in snow cover
•	Measuring mercury content in particulates with atomic absorption method	
Projects		
Assessment	Exam 	
Resources	•	Kondratyev K.Ya., Ivlev L.S., Krapivin V.F., Vatotsos C.A. Atmospheric aerosol properties: formation, processes and impacts – Springer, 2006.
•	Levin Z., Cotton W.R. et. All. Aerosol pollution: impacts on precipitation – Springer, 2009 
•	Yazikov E.G., Talovskaya A.V., Nadeina L.V. Geoecological environmental monitoring: соursebook. − Tomsk: TPU publishing house, 2013. – 135 p. 	
Instructors	Anna Talovskaya, 
associate professor, PhD