1903 – Pool Water Chemistry for Chemically Challenged Aquatic Professionals

Beginner / Symposium 1-hour Lecture

Sanibel, FL / Thursday, July 1, 2010 – 9:40-10:40 am – 1.0 credit hour equal to 1.0 CEC/.1 CEU

(Classroom: 9:40-10:40 am)

Faculty: Ann Wieser, PhD

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will present basic pool water chemistry in a hands-on workshop. Active learning will be used to explain the parameters and relationships in pool water chemistry including water balance, chemical adjustments, and oxidation. Advantages of different types of disinfectants will be discussed.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

1) Discuss the basic parameters of pool water chemistry.

2) Examine chemical relationships that influence pool water balance.

3) Contrast disinfection and oxidation.

4) Explore advantages of different disinfectants.

5) Perform water test; analyze results and determine needed adjustments to water sample.

FACULTY: Ann Wieser, PhD, serves a variety of children with disabilities as an Adapted Physical Educator for Guilford County Schools; where she serves both children and adults in Blue Star Therapies, her own therapeutic massage and aquatics business. She has worked in all areas of aquatics (including SCUBA instruction) since 1967. She began working with persons with disabilities in 1980. Ann also has aquatic and management experience working in public service agencies, in the public schools, and at the university level where she developed an undergraduate Therapeutic Aquatics Concentration for the University of North Carolina-Greensboro.