The course will bring together Nordic students (graduate and master's) and top teachers intereseted in bioremediation for a thorough overview and update of the field. Lectures, excursions, labroatory work and seminars will be organised in such a way that the students are confronted with practical problems and guided through the process of dealing with them in a multidisciplinary fasion. Thus, the course program involves appropriate samling, soil and pollutant chemistry, appropriate eology and hydrology, and of course microbiology and molecular biology. Emphasis will be on monitoring the bioremediation process. The course is organised in collaboration with the NordForsk funded network MECBIO (Microbiology and bioremediation in cold climate, coordinator prof. Vigdis Torsvik, University of Bergen).

Kristina Lindström