Main theme: Expounding on the nature of biogeochemistry of trace elements, their impacts and exposure pathways, and their evaluation and risk management.

Total attendance: 500
Total abstracts 300+; orals 158; posters 142
Countries participating: 32 (Most represented in decreasing order: France, USA, UK, Italy, Switzerland, Canada, Netherlands, Germany)

Conference Directorate
Chair and Host, Rene Prost
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)
Versailles, France 

Invited Keynote Speakers
Alfred BERNARD
Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
"Effects of heavy metals in the environment on human health"

Steve McGRATH
IACR-Rothamsted, Soil Division, UK
"Behaviour of trace elements in terrestrial ecosystems"

National Organizing Committee (all from France)
Chair: Christian JUSTE, INRA, Bordeaux
Gilbert ALCAYDE, Chargé de Mission auprès du Ministère de l'Environnement, Paris
Alain BERMOND, INRA, Paris
Maurice BONNEAU, INRA, Champenoux
Philippe CAMBIER, INRA, Versailles
Serge DERUELLE, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
Alain GOMEZ, INRA, Bordeaux
Stéphane HENIN, INRA, Versailles
Claude LATOUCHE, Université de Bordeaux, Talence
Alain MANCEAU, Université J. Fourier, Grenoble
Alain PERRIER, INRA, Paris
Jacques BERTHELIN, Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy
Michel ASTRUC, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, Pau
Serge BOURGEOIS, INA, Thiverval-Grignon
Laurent CHARLET, Université J. Fourier, Grenoble
Danielle ESCULPAVIT, Bureau des Sols au Ministère de l'Environnement, Paris
René GOUBIER, ADEME, Angers
Jean-François LAMBERT, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
Francis LECHENET, Associations Interprofessionnelles du Pb et du Cd, Paris
Jean-Louis MOREL, ENSAIA, Nancy
René PROST, INRA, Versailles

International Organizing Committee
Chair, Domy Adriano, University of Georgia's Savannah River Ecology Lab, USA
Winfried Blum, BOKU, Vienna, Austria
Mitsuo Chino, University of Tokyo, Japan
Rene Prost, INRA, Versailles, France
Ming H. Wong, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Zueng-Sang Chen, National Taiwan University. Taiwan
Alex Iskandar, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, USA
Peter Reiniger, Environmental Directorate of the EC, Brussels, Belgium

Scientific Committee
Chair: Maurice BONNEAU, INRA, Champenoux, France
Frans DE HAAN, University of Wageningen, Netherlands
Robert IMPENS, Faculté d'Agronomie, Gembloux, Belgium
Steve McGRATH, IACR-Rothamsted, Harpenden, UK
Alan BAKER, University of Sheffield, UK
Nicola SENESI, University of Bari, Italy
Jean-Frank WAGNER, University of Trier, Germany
And members of the National Organizing Committee
 
Main sponsors
Commission des Communautés Européennes, Belgium
Ministère français de l'Environnement, France
Ministère français des Affaires Sociales, France
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), France
Institut National de l'Environnement Industriel et des Risques (INERIS), France
SITA, Groupe Lyonnaise des Eaux, France
Lyonnaise des Eaux, CIRSEE, France
Lyonnaise des eaux, France
SAGEP, Eau de Paris, France
Association Interprofessionnelle du Plomb, France
Association Interprofessionnelle du Cadmium, France
Centre de Recherche et d'Essais pour l'Environnement et le Déchet (CREED), France
The United Nations Environment Programme, Kenya
The US Army Corps of Engineers, UK
The International Science Foundation, (ISF), USA

Conference Proceedings
Prost, R. (Editor). 1995. Third International Conference on the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements, Paris, colloque 85. Paris, France May 15-19, 1995. INRA Editions, 525 pages.

No electronic proceedings available.