Subject: Soil Science
Credit units: 3
Offered: Term 3 only
College: Graduate and Postdoc Studies
Department: Soil Science

Description

This course explains how one characterizes a contaminated terrestrial site, the risks associated with that site and identify remediation technologies that will mitigate the risks associated with the contaminated site. It will discuss how contamination interacts with industrial processes to created degraded landscapes and natural processes that help ameliorate this degradation of the ecosystem. Discussion of remediation will focus on the use of in situ and ex situ technologies for contaminated soil ecosystems and how these technologies reduce risk to not only soil, but also human and aquatic receptors.

Note: Students cannot obtain credit for EVSC 421.3 and SLSC 821.3.

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