Soil Contamination and Remediation: Live E-lecture Series
Course Coordinator: Dr. Margaret Graham (University of Edinburgh)
Contributors: Edinburgh, ETH, Florida, Keele, Montreal, Nanjing
Content Outline
Part 1 – Introductory Lectures
L1 (06/03) Bioavailability of Metals in Contaminated Soils (Sauve/Montreal)
L2 (13/03) Background concentrations of trace metals in soils (Ma/Florida)
L3 (20/03) Characterisation of Cr(VI)-Contaminated Urban Soils (Graham/UoE)
L4 (27/03) Antimony behaviour in shooting range soils (Schulin/ETH)
Part 2 – Contaminant Remediation – Case Studies
L5 (03/04) Remediation Methods for high-pH Cr(VI)-Contaminated Soils (Graham/UoE)
L6 (10/04) Earthworm-enhanced Remediation of Soil with Organic Contaminants (Ji/Nanjing)
L7 (17/04) Remediation of Mercury-contaminated Farming Soils (Zhong/Nanjing)
L8 (24/04) Phytoremediation of As-contaminated soils (Ma/Florida)
Part 3 – Environmental Risk Assessment and Regulation
L9 (01/05) Principles and practise of terrestrial ecotoxicology (Oliver/Keele)
L10 (08/05) Terrestrial ecotoxicology for chemical risk assessment (Oliver/Keele)
L11 (15/05) Case studies for retroactive and proactive soil risk assessments (Shaun Watmough/Trent University)
