Courses/Workshop

(1)Medical Geology (IMGA)

(2)Arsenic Geochemistry:Kirk Nordstrom

(3)Innovative Mitigation Options for Arsenic Removal from Groundwater:Jan Hoinkis        & Jochen Bundschuh

1. INTRODUCTION
    1.1. Chemical background
    1.1.1. Inorganic solution species
    1.1.2. Methylated arsenic, organic arsenicals, and arsines
2. NATURAL OCCURRENCES
    2.1 Lithology
       2.1.1 Reference values
       2.1.2. As in major rock types
    2.2 Mineralogy
    2.3. Soils and Sediments
       2.3.1. Reference values
       2.3.2. Arsenic Hyperaccumulators
       2.3.3. Earthworms
       2.3.4. Selective Extractions
       2.4. Hydrology
       2.4.1. Reference values
       2.4.2. Drinking water standards
    2.5 Unnatural (Anthropogenic) Occurrences
       2.5.1 World Production
       2.5.2 Roxarsone
       2.5.3. Famous Arsenic Solutions
3. SOLID SOLUBILITY and AQUEOUS SPECIATION
    3.1. Thermodynamic data
       3.1.1. Oxides, Sulfides, Arsenides, and Aqueous Species
       3.1.2. Scorodite and other arsenates
       3.1.3. Thioarsenates/Thioarsenites
    3.2. Eh-pH and activity-activity diagrams
4. ANALYTICS
    4.1. Analytics for solids
    4.2. Analytics for aqueous solutions
5. MICROBIOLOGY
    5.1 Microbial mechanisms of arsenic transformations
    5.2 Microbial species that interact with arsenic
    5.3 Microbial effects on oxidation and reduction reactions
6. SURFACE-WATER GEOCHEMISTRY
    6.1 Water sampling (collection, preservation, storage)
    6.2 Atmospheric arsenic
    6.3 Precipitation and Atmospheric Load
    6.4 Surface-waters
    6.5 Seawater
    6.6 Acid mine drainage
7. GROUND-WATER GEOCHEMISTRY
    7.1 Factors affecting solubility and mobility
    7.2 Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR)
    7.3 Acid ground waters
    7.4 Case histories
8. GLOBAL GEOCHEMICAL CYCLE OF ARSENIC
9. REFERENCES