Outdoor Education Conference (27 Oct 2010)

For those of you heading to this conference (walk-in registration is still available), you may be interested to know that I am presenting 2 sessions on 27 Oct 2010 (Wed).

Details for the concurrent sessions are as follows.

Session	Date	Time	Presenter/s	Venue

Water Quality Monitoring as a Tool for Environmental Education

27 Oct

09:00am-11:00am

Mr Kwok Chen Ko Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore

B08-09

Water Quality Monitoring as a Tool for Environmental Education

27 Oct

11:30am-12:30pm

Mr Kwok Chen Ko Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore

B08-09

Objectives
1. Appreciate the importance of water quality to the health of the environment

2. Understand how several fundamental water quality parameters interact with aquatic life
3. Recognise the potential and challenges to water quality monitoring in Singapore

Target audience
Teachers/ Practitioners/ Coordinators of outdoor education programmes

Brief Description of SessionBesides the usual classroom talk on water quality monitoring, we will go through some of the instruments used in the field via a demonstration.
1. What is water quality
2. The basic water quality parameters
3. Measuring these parameters in the field
4. Challenges to water quality monitoring in Singapore
5. Resources for water quality monitoring