Activities
Lectures – Fieldwork – Laboratory work – PC – Report writing
Curriculum
Available for downloading here .
See especially:
Speciation and fractionation Guidelines
Phosphate and total phosphourus analysis
Learning requirements:
The student is expected to:
- Understand how the Health Safety and Environment (HSE) regime is practiced at the Group of Environmental Analysis
- Acquire experience of water sampling from various compartments through the watershed
- Understand the difference between total analysis, fractions and species
- Understand the concept of multiple simultaneous equilibriums
- Understand the basic principles of mobility and toxicity of chemical species
- Learn how to conduct an Al-fractionation and have experience from the analysis of major anions and cations
- Be able to run the MINEQL+ programme
- Relate to environmental monitoring data and to write a report where data are evaluated and interpreted.
Lecture, Field & Laboratory schedule
Monday October 31st;
Lecture, Aud.3, hr. 08:15 – 09:00
Difference between total analysis, fractionation and species, The significance of species activities rather than total concentration in terms of mobility and toxicityChemical analytical speciation and fractionation (Al) methods Water sampling from different compartments of the environmentSampling strategies for environmental samples
Field work, Different water types in the Oslo region, hr. 10:00 ~ 17:00 Sampling of water samples
Friday, November 4th;
Lecture, Aud. 3, hr. 08:15 – 10:00
Labwork, V111 hr. 09:15 ~ 17:00 Analysis of: pH , Alkalinity , TOC , Major Anions and cations on IC , Al-fractions , Phosphorous-fractions
Thursday, November 17th;
Lecture, Avogadro, hr. 08:15 – 10:00
PC lab, V152 hr. 10:15 – 16:00
Practice in using MINEQL by solving 4 problems
Friday, November 18th;
Assignment
Individual report writing 