Assess students’ ability to analyze coastal eutrophication by identifying and differentiating nutrient sources (point vs nonpoint; agricultural, urban, wastewater, atmospheric), tracing transport pathways (surface runoff, riverine and estuarine exchange, groundwater, coastal upwelling, internal sediment release), describing in‑water biogeochemical transformations (nitrification/denitrification, P release), interpreting monitoring data or conceptual models, and evaluating ecological impacts (HABs, hypoxia, food‑web shifts) and management responses.