International
Congresses (As 2012) “Arsenic in the Environment”
Arsenic in Geosphere and Human Diseases
will
be held in Cairns, Australia in 2012
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Past Conferences
First
International Seminar 2010 on Climate Change and Environmental Challenges of 21st
Century
December 7-9, 2010
at the
University of Rajshahi,
Rajshahi, Bangladesh. mostafaies@yahoo.com
The
abstract submission deadline is July 31, 2010. 2010.
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GROUND WATER:
PART 1: Arsenic Geochemistry: Demystifying the Complexities." November
10, 2010; 1pm CST (90-min)
By Madeline Gotkowitz, PG. and Madeline Schreiber, PhD.
For more info and to register visit http://www.midwestgeo.com/webinars/arsenic1-11102010.php
Part 1 provides the latest understanding about arsenic geochemistry,
occurrence and mobility in ground water. Learn the long-term health
effects of arsenic in aquifers in the US and around the world. Plus,
learn how arsenic concentrations are effected by site geology for
remediation design and effectiveness. This webinar presents the
background on common issues and demystifies topics we currently hold as
"conventional wisdom".
"ARSENIC IN GROUND WATER,
PART 2: Advances in Arsenic Site Investigations: Methods, Data
Collection and Interpretation."
November 17, 2010; 1pm CST (90-min). By Madeline Gotkowitz, PG. and
Madeline Schreiber, PhD.
For more info and to register visit http://www.midwestgeo.com/webinars/arsenic2-11172010.php
Part 2 provides a process to identify and characterize arsenic in
ground water. This webinar will include up-to-date procedures for field
methods, data analysis and interpretation. Consultants, regulators and
environmental engineers will discover what to look for at sites to
differentiate naturally-occurring arsenic releases from anthropogenic
arsenic contamination. Learn how drilling, well installation and screen
placement play a role in arsenic geochemistry.
2010 GSA (Geological
Society of America) Annual Meeting
31 October - 3 November
• Denver, Colorado USA
Session T12. Arsenic in
Geologic Systems
Prosun Bhattacharya, Abhijit
Mukherjee, Alan E. Fryar, David A. Polya
Global
occurrence of arsenic in geologic systems, groundwater, soil, and the
food chain has raised serious environmental concern. This session will
deal with the occurrence, mobility, biogeochemical cycling,
epidemiological, socio-economic effects, and sustainable mitigation of
arsenic
Abstract submission till August
10th 2010.http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2010AM/top/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=26123&username=174849&password=41486
ALSO
T78. Geomicrobiology of
Arsenic Transformation and Mobilization
in Arsenic-Enriched Alluvial Aquifers
and Subsequent Impact on
Ecosystem as Well as Human Health GSA Geobiology & Geomicrobiology
Division; GSA Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology
Division Jiin-Shuh Jean, Jochen Bundschuh,
Chen-Wuing Liu, Jui-Sheng Chen
This session serves as a platform for
scientific exchange to
improve the understanding of geochemical characterization including
microbial transformation and mobilization of arsenic in alluvial
aquifers, and bioaccumulation of arsenic in ecosystem and health
effects.
Half
a century ago, the
endemic Blackfoot Disease was discovered,
and related to the arsenic
uptake from drinking water
supplied by wells.
I. Geology + hydrogeology of arsenic;
II.
Ecological effects: Arsenic in soils, plants and food chain;
III. Marine + terrestrial biota;
IV. Health effects on humans:
Epidemiology + biomarkers;
V. Toxicological effects;
VI. Assessment and remediation;
VII. Analytical methods.
Photograph of participants
Contact Name: Jiin-Shuh Jean (congress), Jochen Bundschuh
(congress series)
Contact Email: jiinshuh@mail.ncku.edu.tw, jochenbundschuh@yahoo.com
T23. Geochemistry of Arsenic and Other Toxic Elements and
Assessment of Environmental Risks in Global Groundwater Systems
Sponsored by: GSA Hydrogeology Division; GSA International
Division; GSA Geology and Health Division; GSA Geology and Society
Division; Geochemical Society; International Society of Groundwater for
Sustainable Development (ISGSD)
Prosun Bhattacharya, Alan E. Fryar, Abhijit Mukherjee
Groundwater environments are contaminated by geogenic arsenic
and other toxic elements across the world. This interdisciplinary
session serves as a platform for scientific exchange leading to
improved understanding of the dynamics of arsenic and other toxic
elements.
Hydrogeology; Geology and Health;
Geomicrobiology
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Groundwater of Southern Asia chapman-help@agu.org Conveners
Alexander van Geen, Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, New York, USA, e-mail (avangeen@ldeo.columbia.edu)
Scott Fendorf, Environmental Earth System
Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA, e-mail (fendorf@stanford.edu)
Program Committee
Kazi Matin Ahmed, Department of Geology,
University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, e-mail (kazimatin@yahoo.com)
Charles Harvey, Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering, MIT,
Cambridge Massachusetts, USA, e-mail (charvey@mit.edu)
Janet Hering, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic
Science and Technology (Eawag), Duebendorf, Switzerland, e-mail (janet.hering@eawag.ch)
Jonathan Lloyd, School of Earth, Atmospheric and
Environmental Sciences, The University of Manchester, UK, e-mail (jon.lloyd@manchester.ac.uk)
Andrew Meharg, Department of Plant and Soil
Sciences, University of Aberdeen, UK, e-mail (a.meharg@abdn.ac.uk)
Pauline Smedley, British Geological Survey,
Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK, e-mail (pls@bgs.ac.uk)
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Dhaka Community Hospital, Dhaka January 15th 2009
Wilson R The Importance of
Chlorination in Bangladesh
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Second International Congress
“Arsenic from Nature to Humans (As2008)”
held in Valencia, Spain,
from May 21st to 23rd, 2008
The programme for the congress was arranged in two series of
parallel sessions.
II: Human Exposure: Sources, Intakes and Bioavailability
III: Arsenic Metabolism, Biomarkers and Mode of Action
IV: Environmental Health Effects and Risk Assessment
VI: Assessment of Social and Economic Impacts
VII: Marine and Terrestrial Biota
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GQ07: Securing Groundwater quality in urban
and industrial
environments proceedings of the 6th international water conference
Held
in Fremantle , Western Australia, 2 - 7 December 2007 http://www.csiro.au/GQ07
6th
International IAHS Groundwater Quality Conference 2007 (GQ07).
: Annual
Meeting: Geological Society of America DENVER,
COLORADO, USA
Special sessions T192 and T222: Arsenic: from Nature to Human
October 31st 2007
CHAIRMEN Jochen Bundschuh (jochenbundschuh @
yahoo.com) and Prosun Bhattacharya (prosun @ kth.se)
ABSTRACTS and beside them power point slides when provided
Royal Geographical Society: Annual International Conference 2006
Arsenic: The Geography of a Global problem; A symposium
organized by Department
of Geography Cambridge Universitty Wednesday 29
August 2006; Royal Geographical Society and Institute of British
Geographers
ABSTRACTS of Arsenic session
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Pakistan Japan Joint Seminar 2007:
Arsenic in Pakistan Drinking
Water Disaster Management through
Civil Society
Was held, January 19, 2007 in
Lahore,
Pakistan.Organized by the UDERC. According to the UDERC website, UDERC
seeks to strengthen Civil Society Networks in Pakistan for their role
in the process of social development through action-oriented research
initiatives at the grassroots. UDERC serves as a platform to
strengthen the interaction between the citizens of Japan and
Pakistan through eco-tourism, language programs and inter-cultural
activities.
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Workshop on Drinking Water,
Irrigation and Technology Performance Verification inNepal.
This 2-day
workshop will be held at the International
Center for Integrated
Mountain Development (ICIMOD), located
approximately a half hour from
Kathmandu, Nepal on November 30th and
December 1st, 2006
1. Presentation of a comprehensive backgrounder on Environmental
Performance Verification (EPV) and its role in technology selection and
assessment from an international perspective;
2. An assessment of the arsenic drinking water policy framework in
Nepal and an examination of the application of EPV to this process;
3.Development of a needs assessment for arsenic in irrigation water;
4. Development of an "Action Plan" arising from the workshop activities.
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"Distribution
of Arsenic and Related Metalloids in Surface and Ground Waters:
Controls and Challenges"
Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America,
2006, Philadelphia, USA, October 22-25, 2006.
Abhijit Mukherjee (University of Kentucky), Andrea Foster
(U.S.Geological Survey), Kaye Svage (Vanderbilt University, Nashville,
Tennessee) and Prosun Bhattacharya (prosun @ kth.se) are convening a
topical session entitled "Distribution of Arsenic and Related
Metalloids in Surface and Ground Waters: Controls and Challenges" at
the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America. The
meeting will take place in Philadelphia, October 22-25, 2006. This
session is co-sponsored by the GSA Hydrogeology Division, the GSA
Geobiology and Geomicrobiology Division, Geology and Health
Division, and the Geochemical Society.
Abstracts (deadline July 11, 2006) must be submitted on-line at:
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As 2006: Natural Arsenic in Groundwaters of
Latin America Occurrence,
Health Impact, Remediation, Management Date: 20-24 June 2006 Venue: Mexico City, Mexico
Description: The
congress "As 2006" is a platform
for discussion and exchange of scientific
knowledge and ideas to
identify future research.targets needed to
improve the understanding of
the occurrence and mobility of arsenic in
groundwater, the health impacts and
risks when using this water for drinking
or irrigation purposes, and to
develop, evaluate, select and apply those
remediation methods The
regional focus of attention is
dedicated to Latin America. However,
researchers working on arsenic
elsewhere in the world are strongly
encouraged to contribute.
The
USEPA workshop on research and risk
assessment for arsenic May 31st to June 2nd 2006
published in a special volume of Toxicology and Applied
Pharmacology in 2007
The
Fogarty
International Training Program
in India on Environmental and
Occupational
Health
and the Division of Genetics
and Genomics,
IICB, Kolkata
organized
a week long workshop on environmental epidemiology
with reference
to Arsenic toxicity, at the IICB,
Kolkata, between December 13 through 20,
2005.
The
workshop covered basics of environmental epidemiology,
arsenic toxicity, SNPs,
genomics, and participants will have hands-on training on
designing epidemiologic studies and working with epidemiologic
software. arin.basu @
gmail.com
Seminar:
Arsenic
in Groundwater: Bangladesh Experience
October 24, 2005
2.00 PM-8.00 PM University of British Columbia, Vancouver Organized by Bangladesh
Students Association
Session
I: 2-4:30 Chemistry, Epidemiology & Toxicology
of
Arsenic
Dr. William Cullen, Dept of Chemistry,
UBC
Dr. David L. Eaton, School of Public Health, University of Washington
Dr. Allan H. Smith, School of Public Health, University of California,
Berkeley
Dr. David A. Kalman, School of Public Health, University of Washington
Dr. Ray Copes, BC Center for Disease Control; BC Ministry of Health
Session II: 5-7:30 Measurement & Mitigation of Arsenic in
Groundwater
Dr. Roger Beckie,Dept
of Earth and Ocean Sciences, UBC
Dr. Ken J. Hall, Dept of Civil Engineering, UBC
Dr. Steve Reiber,HDR
Consulting, Seattle & Dept of Civil Engineering, University of
Washington
Dr. Adele Buckley, Ontario Center for Environmental Technology
Advancement
Dr. Richard Wilson, Dept of Physics, Harvard University & The
Arsenic
Foundation
Power Point
slides will be on the web when provided to the webmaster.
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A conference on detecting and treating arsenic, radium, radon and
uranium
in natural waters was held from February 24-25th in Charleston, South
Carolina by the National Ground Water Association (NGWA).
Evaluation and Management
of
Drinking Water Sources Contaminated with Arsenic
8 - 11 Nov 2004, Santiago, Chile
Organised by: Universidad de
Chile, Division de Recursos Hidricos y Medio Ambiente
http://cipres.cec.uchile.cl/%7Earsenico/
Target group: environmental chemists and engineers, toxicologists and
medical scientists. Topics: Fate, transport and behaviour of arsenic in
aquatic environments; Analysis and specification of arsenic in water;
Conventional methods for arsenic removal in drinking water sources;
Advanced methods for arsenic removal in drinking water sources;
Small-scale treatment: case studies (Argentina, India,
Bangladesh, Peru); Large-scale treatment: case studies (Chile,
Argentina); Treatment costs of waters polluted with arsenic; Arsenic
exposure and impact on public health; Water treatment sludge:
management and final disposal; Evaluation of populations exposed to
environmental arsenic (air, soil, food and water); and Contamination of
food cultivated in areas rich in arsenic. The official
language of the conference is Spanish with simultaneous translation in
English.
Contact: Mrs. Ana Maria Sancha,
Division of Water Resources and
Environment, Department of Civil Engineering, Universidad de
Chile, amsancha@ing.uchile.cl
2004
WFP Arsenic
Contamination Specialty One day Seminar & Exhibit, Thursday,
October 14,
2004 at
the University of New Hampshire in Durham, NH. Details can be
found at:
http://www.newea.org/.
Sean D.
Stang-Osborne, P.E. 781-890-3980 NEWEA WFP
Committee Chair
“Arsenic and Fluoride
Contamination in
Groundwater” 5-7 Oct 2004 North
Eastern
Regional Institute of
Water and Land Management (NERIWALM) and Institute (Assam, India)
The
Director, NERIWALM,
Kaliabhomora-784027, Assam, India.
OR Dr. A K Singh, Ph. D., Associate
Professor (Soil Science),
Convener
(Technical), Seminar 2004, NERIWALM, Tezpur-784027, Assam, India Tel:
+913712-232789 E-Mail:
singh_ak30@hotmail.com/neriwalm@sify.com
National seminar on environmental
pollution focusing on arsenic, fluoride and other toxics in newly
formed states of the Indian Union, 6-7 October
2004, Bhilai
Institute of Technology Durg, CG, India;
Prof. Piyush Kant Pandey, Co-ordinator CESE, Bhilai Institute of
Technology, Bhilai House, Durg Tel: 91-788-2334424, 2323997
91-94252-45309 drpiyush_pandey@yahoo.com Fax: 0788 221106
The 3rd Conference on
Molecular Mechanisms of Metal Toxicity and
Carcinogenesis - September 12-15, NIOSH
Morgantown, W.Va. Contact: Xianglin Shi at xshi @ cdc.gov
Natural
Arsenic in Groundwater.
Precongress workshop 32nd International Geological Congress, Florence
Italy August 18th - 19th 2004
Workshop
on the Design and
Operation of Adsorptive Media Process for the Removal of
Arsenic from Drinking Water. August 10-11,
2004
Cincinnati, OH
http://www.epa.gov/ORD/NRMRL/announce/arsenicworkshop.html
The 5th
International
conference on
arsenic
pollution in Bangladesh, Dhaka
Community Hospital, Dhaka, was held on February 15th to 18th,
2004. Here's the link to a detailed
account of the conference. Prof. Richard Wilson presented a paper
at this conference - click
hereto view more on this. Here is the link
to the Dhaka Community Hospital website.
226th
American Chemical Society National Meeting, September
7-11, 2003,
New York The Technical Program is at:
http://oasys.acs.org/acs/226nm/scheduler/
15th
Conference of the International Society for Environmental
Epidemiology (ISEE) 2003 held on 24-26 September 2003, Perth, Western
Austalia. A special one day symposium ws held on
arsenic. The program is here, but no abstracts are
available. I understand that the papers will be published in the
journal Epidemiology but are not available on line to this webmaster,
The Fifth International India Bangladesh Symposia
2003, 2-3 March (Calcutta) & 5-6 March
(Dhaka): Reducing the Impact of Toxic Contamination on Bengal
Basin Economies
Executing Arsenic Removal Solutions in New Mexico,
held on October 24, 2002, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.An
informative review about options for executing arsenic removal
solutions in New Mexico. Topics of discussion included fundamental
aspects of arsenic chemistry, arsenic treatment options, lab and pilot
testing, Rio Rancho, New Mexico pilot test results, full scale up
treatment design, small system treatment and pilot and operational
considerations.Abstracts
not available. Please send us abstracts
if you have them.
Arsenic in New England: A
Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference.Sponsored
by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Superfund
Basic Research Program. Held on May 29-31, 2002 in Manchester, New
Hampshire.
Abstracts available.
Conference
on Arsenic contamination and remediation in Bangladesh arranged by
Dhaka Community Hospital , Dhaka, January 12th and 13th 2002. The abstracts and other
details of this conference will shortly be on the DCH website and shortly thereafter
copied here. The
Fourth Dhaka Declaration has been issued.
BUET-UNU
International workshop On Technologies For Arsenic Removal From
Drinking Water, Dhaka
5-7 May 2001: pdf copies of the contents and each paper of the
proceedings are available by clicking onn each link below:
February 12th -16th 3rd
international symposia on reducing the impact of toxicchemicals on
Bengal basin economies, public and environmental health to beheld in
Calcutta on February 10-12 at Grant Hotel in Calcutta and 14-16
inDhaka, 2001 Summary
of the presentation by Dipankar Chakraborti. For additional information please E mail to Ghosh Research
Jan 2001: Workshop on
DFID/WaterAid Evaluation of Nine Arsenic Removal Technologies Jan2000meeting@bicn.com
SOCIETY OF GEOCHEMISTRY AND
HEALTH: FOURTH
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARSENIC
EXPOSURE AND HEALTH EFFECTS San Diego,
June 18-22nd, 2000. Abstracts
available .
First International Symposia
on Reducing the Impact of Toxic Chemicals on Bengal Basin in Dhaka,
Bangladesh and SantiniketanWest Bengal, India March 2-9, 1999.
Click here for abstracts
SOCIETY OF GEOCHEMISTRY AND
HEALTH:THIRD
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARSENIC EXPOSURE AND HEALTH EFFECTS,
July 98 in San Diego
First International Conference
on Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater: Causes, Effects and Remedies. Feb 1998 Conference in Dhaka (Organized by Dhaka
Community Hospital and Jadavpur University) Dhaka
declaration
The proceedings from the
Second (SEGH) International Conference on Arsenic Exposure and Health
Effects is available from Kluwer Academic
Publishers
The proceedings from the
First (SEGH) International Conference on Arsenic Exposure and Health
Effects is available from Science
&Technology Letters
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