Ph.D. course, summer, even years, 5 ECTS
To provide participants with (i) a thorough understanding of the processes of importance for the transformation and removal of varies pollutants in wetlands, (ii) an overview of different types of treatment wetland systems, their applicability and their limitations, and (iii) tools to prepare a conceptual design of a constructed wetland system capable of achieving specific treatment goals.
The course will provide an overview of the ecology of freshwater wetlands including hydrology, wetland soil biogeochemistry, and wetland plant ecophysiology. The processes responsible for the transformation or degradation of organic matter and nutrients in the wetland environment will be described, and the state-of-the-art in design techniques based on hydraulics and pollutant removal models in different types of constructed wetland systems will be demonstrated. Practical design guidelines and management aspects such as system layout, compartmentation, substrate selection, inlet and outlet structures, plants and planting are given.
The course is a residential block course of one week duration in late summer of even years. In 2004 the course will be held from the 1 st till the 7 th of August at the course centre ´Nedre Strandkær` located in Mols Bjerge national park 18 km south of Aarhus airport, Denmark.
(http://www.naturhistoriskmuseum.dk/molslab/kursus.html)
Teaching will be through lectures, seminars, theoretical exercises and plenary discussions af real case stories. Participants doing research within the subject field will be asked to contribute with a lecture. The students will be required to prepare designs of constructed wetland systems for the treatment of varies types of contaminated water based on case-stories. An excursion to nearby operational constructed wetland systems will be included in the curriculum.
Graduate background in general aquatic or microbial ecology.
Pass/fail on the basis of satisfactory participation in the course.
Dr. Hans Brix, Institute of Biological Science, University of Aarhus (hans.brix@biology.au.dk)
Dr. Robert H. Kadlec, Prof. Emeritus of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan (USA)
Dr. Brian Sorrell, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (New Zealand)
For registration contact Dr Hans Brix (hans.brix@biology.au.dk) as soon as possible and not later than July 1st 2004. Travel grants will be available, see www.soas.dk.
Fee: 1800,- DKK, which include accommodation and all meals.
Limited to 16.
First priority is given to SOAS Ph.D. students. Teaching will be in English.