Course schedule
Department of Earth Sciences
Uppsala University
Course Responsible and Examiner: Sahar Dalahmeh-UU
Important dates
Last day for registration: 30/4/ 2023
Course Introduction: 2/5/2023
Course Implementation Part 1: 15/5/2023 (Online) and 22-24/05/2023
Course Implementation Part 2: 22-24/05/2023 (Uppsala University; Villavägen 16 Uppsala)
Schedule
Moment | Type of moment | Time | Day |
Course Introduction (Important) | Lecture (Online) | 09:15-10:00 | 5/02/2023 |
Day 1- Microplastic pollution in Sweden
| Online Lectures | 09:15-16:00 | 5/15/2023 |
Microplastics in Wastewater from Gryaab
| Lecture (Online) | 09:15-10:00 | |
Microplastics From Highway Traffic- Tire Wear in Stormwater
| Lecture (Online) | 10:15-12:00 | |
Microplastics in Stormwater and Methods of Treatment | Lecture (Online) | 13:15-15:00 |
Day 2: Microplastic properties and separation
| Face-to-Face meetings | 09:15-17:00 | 5/22/2023 |
Microplastic Pollution: Size, Risk, and Sequences
| Workshop (Assignment 1) | 09:15-10:00 | |
Methods for Sampling Microplastics
| Lecture | 10:15-11:00 | |
Separation of Microplastics From Complex Matrices: Oxidation and Enzymatic Digestion
| Lecture | 11:15-12:00 | |
Hands on Oxidation
| Laboratory Activity | 13:15-15:00 | |
Separation of Microplastics: Density Separation and Filtration
| Lecture | 15:15-16:00 | |
Day 3: Microplastic separation and identification
| Face-to-Face meetings | 08:15-17:00 | 5/23/2023 |
FTIR Theory and Application
| Lecture | 08:15-09:00 | |
FTIR Microscopy and Imaging
| Lecture | 09:15-10:00 | |
Application of FTIR in Microplastic Identification
| Lecture | 10:15-11:00 | |
FTIR- ATR Microscopy
| Laboratory Demo (Group 1) | 11:15-12:00 | |
Hands-on Density Separation and Filtration
| Laboratory activity; Group 2) | 11:15-12:00 | |
FTIR- ATR Microscopy
| Laboratory Demo (Group 2) | 13:15-14:00 | |
Hands-on Density Separation and Filtration
| Laboratory activity; Group 1) | 13:14-14:00 | |
siMPle for Quantification of Microplastics
| Computer lab | 14:00-16:00 | |
Uncertainties in Analyses of Microplastics
| Lecture | 16:00-17:00 | |
Dinner | All participants | 18:00- |
Day 4: Microplastic identification and quantification
| Face-to-Face meetings |
| 5/24/2023 |
Pyrolysis and Gas Chromatography | Lecture | 09:15-10:00 | |
Raman Microscopy- Theory | Lecture | 10.15-12:00 | |
Application of Raman Spectroscopy in the Identification and Quantification of Microplastics
| Lecture | 13:15-14:00 | |
Raman Spectroscopy for Microplastics Analyses
| Demonstration | 14:14-16:00 | |
Day 5: Deadline for submission of Assignment 2 | Submission of Assignment 2 |
| 6/15/2023 |