To ensure that Denmark's ground and surface water is not contaminated by environmental pollutants in the soil, it is important to have a basic scientific understanding and knowledge of the transport and fate of environmental pollutants in different soil types and the soil's ability to filter foreign substances.
Water and contaminants are heterogeneously transported in both sand (fingerflow) and clay soils (macropore transport), and in addition, contaminants are also transported in bound form via clay particles in the soil (particle-facilitated transport).
Our group works with leaching of phosphorus, pesticides, microplastic particles, PAH, PFAS etc.
