Risks related to contaminated soil

From ERAC Edu

Time: September 6 - October 19, 2007

Place: University of Kuopio, Kuopio (Maps and connections)

Canthia (the building number 1 on the map) Snellmania (the building number 5 on the map)

Credits: 3.0 credit points

Language: English

Organizers: The course is organized jointly by the Graduate school in Environmental Health and Environmental Risk Assessment Centre (ERAC)

Course leaders:

Hannu Komulainen, National Public Health Institute, Toxicology Laboratory, Kuopio

Sari Makkonen, University of Kuopio, Department of Environmental Sciences, Kuopio

Course description:

The course covers basic questions, principles, and problems on risk assessment of contaminated soils from the Finnish perspective. It is aimed to all (postgraduate) students on environmental sciences and health. The participants are expected to take an active role in the course. All the participants will make a short presentation on the given topic. These topics will be given before the course begin. At the end of the course, the whole group will make a wiki-based open risk assessment as an interactive process.

Topics for student presentations:

Chlorophenols and dioxins in contaminated soils

Creosote in contaminated soils

Chromium in contaminated soils

Lead in contaminated soil

Service stations

Contamination from wastes

Impurities in sediments

Lecturers:

Auri Koivuhuhta, Geological Survey of Finland, Kuopio

Virpi Kollanus, National Public Health, Dept of Environmental Health, Kuopio

Hannu Komulainen, National Public Health Institute, Dept of Environmental Health, Kuopio

Jussi Reinikainen, Finnish Environmental Institute, Helsinki

Jaana Sorvari, Finnish Environmental Institute, Helsinki

Further information: Sari.Makkonen(at)uku.fi, Tel. +358-17-163188

Time schedule:

Date	Lecture
Thursday, September 6
Canthia, S10
9-11	Contaminated soils in Finland (general description of the problem) Hannu Komulainen
12-15	Soil as a matrix for exposure (geochemistry, bioavailability, factors affecting mobility, ground water etc., relevant both for human and ecological risk assessment Auri Koivuhuhta
Monday, September 10
Canthia, S10
9-11	Principles and methods of human health risk assessment of contaminated soils Hannu Komulainen and Virpi Kollanus
12-13	Principles and methods of human health risk assessment of contaminated soils (continues) Hannu Komulainen and Virpi Kollanus
13-16	Principles and methods of ecological risk assessment of contaminated soils Jaana Sorvari
Wednesday, September 12
Canthia, S10
8-11	Presentations of students on given topics (20-30 min presentation per topic)
12-15	National and EU legislation and risk management related to contaminated soils Jussi Reinikainen
Thursday, September 13
Canthia, S10
9-11	Presentations of students on given topics
11-12	Introduction to a Group Work. A wiki-based (open) integrated risk assessment (human and ecological risks) is made on a given problem (tentatively soils contaminated with pesticides in Finland) in the internet during the next three weeks.
Friday, October 19
Snellmania, S24
12-15	Wrap-up of the wiki-based group work. Presentation of the risk assessment and discussion