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July 13-18, 2009
Soberano Hotel and 10th ICOBTE
Chihuahua, Mexico
Main theme: Frontiers in Trace Elements: Research and education.
Total attendance: 270
Registered participants: 220
Total abstracts: 241 (orals 151; posters 90)
Countries participating: 31 (Most represented in decreasing order: Mexico, USA, Belgium, France, Spain, Austria, Canada, Slovenia, Denmark, Germany, Croatia, Taiwan, Australia)
Scholarships granted: 25
Conference Directorate
Chair and Host, Ma. Teresa Alarcon
Advanced Materials Research Center (CIMAV)
Chihuahua, Mexico
Invited Keynote Speakers (For the ICOBTE)
Fang-Jie Zhao
Rothamsted Research
Harpenden, UK
“Arsenic in food and water: A global problem”
Eric Smolders
Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
“Importance of regulations, critical loads of metals and other trace elements to terrestrial environments”
Tara Sabo-Atwood
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC, USA
“The toxic effects and environmental impacts of nanoparticles”
Esther Orozco
Institute of Science and Technology of Mexico City
Mexico City, Mexico
“Biological sagacity of virus, bacteria and protozoa and their threat and challenge to human intelligence: The H1N1 virus in Mexico 2009”
Invited keynote speakers (For the International Workshop)
Alfonso Flores
Secretaria de Medio Ambiente Recursos Naturales (SEMARNAT), Mexico
“Remediation of contaminated sites in Mexico”
Wini Schmidt
GTZ- MEXICO, Mexico City
“Regulatory dimension in Latin America”
Ulises Ruiz Saucedo
Secretaria de Medio Ambiente Recursos Naturales (SEMARNAT), Mexico
“Regulatory dimension in Mexico”
H. Carlos Carrera
Secretaria de Desarrollo Urbano y Ecología, Mexico
“Recuperation of Avalos Smelter Site, Chihuahua, Mexico”
Kirk Scheckel
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency , USA
“Nanomaterials and their future application in remediation of contaminated sites”
Gary Piersynski
Kansas State University, USA
“Mining/smelting issue and the needed state-of-the-art remediation/rehabilitation
strategies for affected sites”
Richard Loeppert
Texas A & M University, USA
“Remediation of arsenic contaminated soil”
Lena Q. Ma
University of Florida, USA
“Phytoremediation of arsenic contaminated water”
Christina Siebe
National Autonomous University (UNAM), Mexico
“Urban pollution/remediation in Mexico”
Special Symposia
Mercury, environment and health
Rocio Millan, CIEMAT, Spain
Pablo Higueras, EUP Almadén, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Transport/dynamics of trace elements in the root zone
Rainer Schulin, ETH, Switzerland
Magdi Selim Louisiana State University, USA
Fate and transport of metals in contaminated sediments - new approaches in remediation
Anna Sophia Knox , Savannah River National Laboratory, USA
Michael H. Paller, Savannah River National Laboratory, USA
Danny D. Reible, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Domy Adriano, University of Georgia, USA
Bioavailability in the plant-soil system (rhizosphere)
Walter Wenzel, BOKU, Austria
Markus Puschenreiter, BOKU, Austria
Pavel Tlustos, Praga University, Czech Republic
Trace elements in plant nutrition
José de Melo, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Brazil
Enzo Lombi, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Arsenic in the environment
Steve McGrath, Rothamsted Research, UK
Fangjie Zhao, Rothamsted Research, UK
Marta I. Litter, Comision de Energia Nuclear, Argentina
Advanced analytical techniques in metal & metalloid research
Jorge Gardea T., University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), USA
J. R. Peralta-Videa , University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), USA
F. Roman, University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico
Sustainable management of metal & metalloid polluted, marginal soils
Alan Baker, University Of Melbourne, Australia
Jaco Vangronsveld, Universiteit Hasselt, Belgium
Michel Mench, INRA BIOGECO/Université Bordeaux, France
Daniel van der Lelie, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Rossanna Ginnochio, Chilean Research Center for Mining and Metallurgy (CIMM), Chile
National (Local) Organizing Committee (all from CIMAV)
Ma. Teresa Alarcon
Jesus Gonzales
Luz Leal Quezada
Ignacio Martin
Erasmo Orrantia
Nathanael Hernandez
Claudia Lopez
Jonathan Hernandez
International Committee
Andrew Meharg, University of Aberdeen, UK
Bal Ram Singh, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
Brian Jackson, Dartmouth College, USA
Carlos Green,Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnological, Mexico
Christina S. Grabach, Instituto de Geografia UNAM, Mexico
Corrine Leyval, CNRS, France
Daniel van der Lelie, Brookhaven National Lab, USA
Dar-Yuan Lee, Taiwan National University, Taiwan
Domy Adriano, University of Georgia’s Savannah River Ecology Lab, USA
Engracia Madejon, Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología, CSIC, Spain
Enzo Lombi, University of Copenhagan, Denmark
Eric Smolders, KU Leuven, Belgium
Fang-Jie Zhao, Rothamsted Research, UK
Fien Degryse, KU Leuven, Belgium
Frederike Lang, TU Berlin, Germany
Ganga Hettiarachchi, Kansas State University, USA
Gary Pierzynski, Kansas State University, USA
Geraldine Sarret, Université Joseph Fourier, France
Giancarlo Renella, University of Florence, Italy
Grzegorz Siebielec, Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation, Poland
Hao Zhang, Lancaster University, UK
Homero Ramirez Rodriguez, UAAAN, Mexico
Jaco Vangronsveld, Universiteit Hasselt, Belgium
Javiera Cervini, Instituto de Geografia UNAM, Mexico
Jurate Kumpiene, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Ken Sajwan, Savannah State University, USA
Kirk Scheckel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, USA
Laura B. R. Sanchez, FES-C UNAM, Mexico
Luisa Velez, Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Magdi Selim, Louisiana State University, USA
Mario Villalobos, Instituto de Geografia UNAM, Mexico
Markus Puschenreiter, BOKU, Austria
Marta Litter, Comision de Energia Nuclear, Argentina
Marta Marmiroli, University of Parma, Italy
Max Hu , University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Melida Gutierrez, Missouri State University, USA
Michel Mench, INRA, France
Mike McLaughlin, CSIRO, Australia
Nick Lepp, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Nick Basta, Ohio State University, USA
Paul Bertsch, University of Kentucky, USA
Paul Williams, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Paula Madejon, IRNASE, CSIC, Spain
Pavel Tlustos, Praga University, Czech Republic
Peter Holm, Copenhagen University, Denmark
Petra Kidd, CSIC, Spain
Prosun Bhattacharya, KTH, Sweden
Rafael Clemente, CEBAS, Spain
Rainer Schulin, ETH, Switzerland
Robert Bowman, New Mexico Tech., USA (deceased)
Rosanna Ginocchio, Centro de Investigación Minera y Metalúrgica, Chile
Sally Brown, University of Washington, USA
Scott Young, Nottingham University, UK
Silke Heydrich, Instituto de Geografia UNAM, Mexico
Stave McGrath, Rothamsted Research, UK
Tiina Nieminen , Finnish Forest Research Institute, Finland
Tracy Punshon, Dartmouth College, USA
Walter Wenzel, BOKU, Austria
Yibing Ma, CAAS, China
Yong-Guan Zhu, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, China
Scholarship Committee
Adalberto Benavidez, Universidad Autonoma Agraria Antonio Narro, Mexico
Domy Adriano, University of Georgia’s Savannah River Ecology Lab, USA
Magdi Selim, Louisiana State University, USA
Robert Bowman, New Mexico Tech. , USA (deceased)
Sponsorship Committee
Gary Pierzynski, Kansas State University. USA
Mike McLaughlin, CSIRO, Australia
Alex Iskandar, U.S. Amy Corps of Engineers, USA
Domy Adriano, University Of Georgia’s Savannah River Ecology Lab, USA
Enzo Lombi, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Magdi Selim, Louisiana State University, USA
Jesus Gonzales, CIMAV, Mexico
Ma. Teresa Alarcon, CIMAV, Mexico
Scientific (Editorial) Committee
Enzo Lombi, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Gary Pierzynski, Kansas State University, USA
Domy Adriano, University of Georgia’s Savannah River Ecology Lab, USA
Magdi Selim, Louisiana State University, USA
Nick Lepp, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Ma. Teresa Alarcón, CIMAV, Mexico
Miriam Z. López, CIMAV, Mexico
Ma. del Rosario Delgado, CIMAV, Mexico
Leonardo Martín, New Mexico State University, USA
Main sponsors
Advanced Materials Research Center (CIMAV)
The International Society of Trace Element Biogeochemistry
Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC)
Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)
Metals Environmental Research Association (MERA)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ-Mexico)
Gobierno del Estado de Chihuahua
Sociedad Mexicana de la Ciencia del Suelo
Conference Proceedings
Frontiers in trace elements: Research and education.
Editors: Ma. Teresa Alarcón-Herrera, Enzo Lombi and Gary Pierzynski
(provide link to online proceedings here)
Proceedings Editorial Commitee
Enzo Lombi, Gary Pierzynski, Domy Adriano, Magdi Selim, Nicholas W. Lepp, Ma. Teresa Alarcón H., Miriam Z. López P., Ma. del Rosario Delgado C., Leonardo Martín A.
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