“Ecological monitoring of soils” - course 21,000 rubles. from MSU, training 4 weeks. (1 month), Date: November 29, 2023.
Miscellaneous / / December 01, 2023
Admission requirements: higher professional education or secondary specialized education
Program Manager: Timofeeva Elena Aleksandrovna, Email: [email protected], tel.8 (495) 939-22-33.
Responsible for additional education: Timofeeva Elena Aleksandrovna, Email: [email protected], tel. 8 (903) 22-33-99-2, 8(495)939-22-33
If necessary, the program can be adapted to the customer’s requirements - expanded, removed, or the necessary topics added to the curriculum of the additional education program
Who will benefit from this course?
Training under this program is intended for employees of scientific, design, survey and construction companies, environmental engineers, specialists from expert bodies, agrochemical services and other workers whose activities are related to design, environmental protection and rational use of land, as well as all interested persons.
What will you learn?
The program will allow the student to master the theory and methodology of environmental monitoring of soils and develop the ability to develop a strategy soil environmental monitoring will allow you to master the methods of its implementation, acquire practical skills and competencies in the field ecology.
In what format does it take place?
Classes in the program are held in the form of lectures and seminars. Advanced training ends with final certification in the form of a qualifying exam. Upon successful completion of the training, students are issued a standard certificate of advanced training
Candidate of Biological Sciences Position: Associate Professor, Department of Soil Chemistry, Faculty of Soil Science, Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov
1. Environmental monitoring of soils: theoretical foundations and methods
1.1 Anthropogenic degradation of the biosphere, soil degradation. Soil environmental monitoring: theoretical foundations and methods
1.2 Concept of environmental monitoring. Goals and objectives of environmental monitoring. Types of environmental monitoring, principles of their classification.
1.3 Principles of organizing soil environmental monitoring in the Russian Federation. Soil environmental monitoring program, requirements for it.
1.4 Naturally – scientific basis, theory, methods of soil environmental monitoring. Biosphere functions of soil. Utilitarian functions of soil.
2 Justification and selection of indicators of the ecological state of soils to be controlled during monitoring
2.1 The most important chemical, physical, biological properties of soils, the anthropogenic degradation of which leads to deterioration of the ecological condition of soils.
2.2 The influence of biogeocenotic conditions on the transformation, fixation and migration of chemicals in soils. Indicators of early diagnosis, short-term and long-term changes in soil condition.
3 Theory, methods of environmental monitoring of contaminated soils
3.1 Concepts of pollutants. Hazard classes of chemicals. Types of monitoring of contaminated soils. Soil condition indicators determined during soil pollution monitoring. Selection of test sites when monitoring the condition of contaminated soils.
3.2 Methods for determining indicators of soil condition during soil monitoring and requirements for them. Analytical methods for determining indicators of soil condition, ensuring the reliability and reproducibility of soil analysis results.
4 Regulatory framework for environmental monitoring of contaminated soils
4.1 Principles for regulating the content of pollutants in soils. Features of soil as an object for rationing the content of chemicals in them.
4.2 Fundamentals of sanitary and hygienic regulation of the composition of natural environments. Features of soil as an object of regulation. Sanitary, migration, translocation indicators for determining maximum permissible concentrations of chemicals in soils.
4.3 Integrated use of biogeochemical and biomedical indicators to assess the ecological state of soils. Fundamentals of the concept of environmental regulation of the content of chemicals in natural environments.
4.4 Soil pollution with heavy metals, acidic substances, petroleum products, detergents, pesticides. Factors and mechanisms of pollutant transformations in soils. Environmental consequences of pollution. Soil self-purification. Sustainability of natural systems.
5 Agrochemical soil monitoring
5.1 Degradation of arable soils: types, causes, distribution. The concept of agrochemical soil monitoring. Objectives of agrochemical monitoring.
5.2 Controlled indicators of soil condition during agrochemical soil monitoring: soil supply with nutrients, agrochemical properties.
5.3 State of arable soils in the Russian Federation based on the results of agrochemical monitoring: patterns, dynamics, trends. Zonal patterns
6 Integrated environmental monitoring of biological indicators
6.1 Anthropogenic degradation of ecosystems prone to desertification. Assessment of soil degradation in pastures. Irrigation and reclamation soil monitoring.
6.2 Bioindication, biotesting of soils. Monitoring the microbiological state of soils. Indicators and criteria of biological degradation of soils.
6.3 Bonitation soil monitoring. The concept of soil grading. Qualitative assessment of soils, diagnostic features. Grading scales
7 Remote soil monitoring.
7.1 Remote aerospace soil monitoring. Monitoring using remote sensing data.
7.2 Global soil monitoring Biosphere reserves are objects of observation during global environmental monitoring.
8 State of soils in the Russian Federation based on the results of environmental monitoring.
8.1 Regularities of the ecological state of soils in the Russian Federation. Regions of greatest environmental tension. Pollution of arable soils in the Russian Federation
8.2 Pollution of Russian soils by waste from industry, energy, transport, agriculture, municipal activities
final examination - exam