“Assessment and control of soil quality” - course 20,000 rubles. from MSU, training 4 weeks. (1 month), Date: December 6, 2023.
Miscellaneous / / December 09, 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 is this course for?
Training under this program is intended for employees of scientific, design, survey companies, industrial organizations, environmental engineers, expert specialists authorities, agricultural chemical services and other workers whose activities are related to design, environmental protection and rational use of natural resources, as well as all interested persons.
Purpose of the program: Students will master the theory and methodology of the procedure for assessing and monitoring soils, determining its quality and degree safety for humans, as well as the development of measures (recommendations) to reduce chemical and biological pollution.
1) developing the ability to justify and select informative indicators of controlled soil properties, criteria for assessing the sanitary, hygienic and environmental condition of soils;
2) developing the ability to justify and select methods for analyzing and assessing the sanitary, hygienic and ecological state of soils and waters, including the degree of their pollution;
3) developing the ability to analyze the results obtained during sanitary-hygienic and environmental monitoring of soils;
4) acquiring the skills to understand, present and critically analyze basic information when analyzing sanitary, hygienic and environmental conditions controlled objects, predict changes in soil conditions, develop measures (recommendations) to reduce chemical and biological pollution.
How are classes going?
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 Assessment and control of soil quality: theoretical foundations and methods
1.1 History of development, fundamentals of the doctrine of the ecological and sanitary-hygienic state of the environment.
1.2 Naturally – scientific basis, theory, methods of soil monitoring. Relevance of environmental monitoring. Goals and objectives of monitoring. Levels of monitoring, classification.
1.3 Principles of organizing control and monitoring of soils in the Russian Federation. Soil monitoring program, requirements for it.
1.4 International and national programs for monitoring environmental objects. Foreign experience in organizing monitoring
2 Justification and selection of soil condition indicators to be monitored
2.1 Justification of the list of indicators monitored during various types of monitoring and control. The most important chemical, physico-chemical, biological indicators of soils and methods for their determination.
2.2 Forms of occurrence of chemicals in soils. The influence of landscape-geochemical, biogeocenotic conditions on the transformation, fixation and migration of chemicals in the landscape. Factors of accumulation and dispersion of pollutants in the landscape and their control. Geochemical barriers and their influence on the redistribution of chemicals in the landscape.
3 Regulatory framework for soil quality control
3.1 Approaches to standardization of the content of pollutants in environmental objects: sanitary-hygienic, statistical, ecosystem, based on the best available technologies, based on acceptable risk.
3.2 Fundamentals of sanitary and hygienic regulation of the composition of natural environments. The concept of maximum permissible concentrations (MAC) of chemicals in natural environments. Features of soils as an object of regulation.
3.3 Fundamentals of the concept of environmental regulation of the content of chemicals in natural environments. Approaches to determining maximum permissible loads on the soil and ecosystem. Assessment of the quality of natural environments based on the composition of background territories. Statistical approach to standardization of pollutant levels.
3.4 Fundamentals of concepts for regulating the content of pollutants in soils based on the best available technologies and environmental risk. Methodology for calculating the risk to human health, based on domestic principles of hygienic regulation. Classification of levels of individual lifetime risk. Collective risk
4 Theory, methods of control and monitoring of chemical indicators of contaminated soils
4.1 Concepts of pollutants. Hazard classes of chemicals. Soil pollution with heavy metals, acidic substances, petroleum products, detergents, pesticides. Soil self-purification. Sustainability of natural systems. Soil buffering and its place in ecosystem stability.
4.2 Methods for determining chemical indicators of soil condition during soil monitoring and requirements for them. Metrological characteristics of soil analysis methods and requirements for them. The nature of spatial and temporal variation in soil indicators and taking it into account when taking soil samples for analysis. Justification of the sampling system. Selection of test sites when monitoring the condition of contaminated soils.
4.3. Specific features of monitoring the condition of soils contaminated with pollutants of various natures (heavy metals, pesticides, oil, petroleum products). Integral assessment of the degree of degradation of anthropogenically disturbed soils. Total indicator of soil pollution (Zc). Bioindication, soil biotesting.
4.4 Agrochemical soil monitoring. Controlled indicators of soil condition during agrochemical soil monitoring. State of arable soils in the Russian Federation based on the results of agrochemical monitoring: patterns, dynamics, trends.
5 Control and monitoring of microbiological indicators of soils
5.1 Techniques and methods for selecting and preparing samples for microbiological studies. Sampling techniques for microbiological studies. Rules of asepsis and sterility. Transportation and storage of samples, preparation for analysis.
5.2 The main indicator organisms used in assessing the sanitary and hygienic state of the environment, methods for their isolation and identification. Methods for isolation from natural and anthropogenically transformed environments, identification and quantification
5.3 Monitoring the microbiological state of soils. Assessment of the degree of soil enrichment with microorganisms. Assessment of the ecological state of soils based on their enzymatic activity.
6 Soil quality control at all stages of design and construction
6.1 Engineering and environmental surveys. Assessment of soil condition based on sanitary and chemical indicators. Assessment of the degree of biological contamination of soils. Radiation survey of areas of territories.
6.2 Industrial environmental control. Monitoring the condition of soil in residential areas, including high-risk areas, in the zone of influence of vehicles, buried industrial waste (soil territories adjacent to landfills), in places of temporary storage of industrial and household waste, on agricultural land, sanitary protection zones.
7 Development of measures (recommendations) to reduce chemical and biological pollution
7.1 Requirements of environmental, agrotechnical, sanitary and hygienic, construction and other standards, standards and rules depending on the type of soil disturbance and further intended use lands
7.2 Land reclamation. Requirements for land reclamation. Lands subject to reclamation. Directions for reclamation of disturbed lands, requirements for land reclamation
8 Assessment of soil condition based on the results of sanitary and hygienic monitoring
8.1 State of soils and waters of the Russian Federation, influence of regional and production factors. The direction and dynamics of anthropogenic changes in the properties of soils and waters of different categories of use.
8.2 Assessing the risk to human health caused by pollutants: the concept of additional risk; calculation of risk when exposed to threshold and non-threshold pollutants.
final examination
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