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EVISA Workshop: Mercury speciation analysis - The basis for sound risk assessment, and optimized remediation strategies for contaminated soils, sediments and sludge
Presentations given during EVISA's Workshop on Mercury Speciation
From the following program you can download PDF-versions of the presentations as presented during the EVISA workshop on mercury speciation held in Umea/Sweden, March 27-28, 2006.
The Mercury Problem in Boreal Lakes: Forestry, speciation and the search for explanation, Kevin Bishop, Markus Meili, Mats Nilsson, SLU, Uppsala, Sweden
Mercury in crude oil and natural gas. A concern for the oil and gas industry, Audun Gangstad, Stale Berg, Statoil Research Center Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway
The importance of mercury-sulphur speciation for solubility, methylation and demethylation rates in sediments contaminated by the paper and pulp industry - implications for risk assessment, Ulf Skyllberg, SLU, Umeå, Sweden
16:30 - 17:30
Round Table Discussion with all lecturers of the day, Chair person: Wolfgang Frech
16:30 - 17:30
Poster Session
18:30 Workshop dinner at the hotel
Day 2
Ongoing routine mercury speciation analysis in service laboratories
8:30 - 8:50
Sample preparation and analytical methodology solving matrix dependent problems in mercury speciation analysis, S. McSheehy, LCABIE, UMR CNRS 5034 - Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France
Solid Phase Thermal Desorption - A Tool to Identify Mercury Species in Contaminateed Soils and Sediments, H. Biester, Anne Bollen, Institute of Environmental Geochemistry, Heidelberg, Germany