Main theme: Transcending trace element research across oceans, generations, and disciplines.

Total attendance: 364 (120 foreign participants, 204 Taiwan participants and 40 service people)
Registered participants: 324; number of students: 150
Total abstracts 318; orals 131; posters 187
Countries participating: 26 (Most represented in decreasing order: Taiwan, Japan, United States of America, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Australia, China)
Scholarships granted: 20

Conference Directorate
Chair and Host, Shang-Shyng Yang
National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Secretary General, Zueng-Sang Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Conference Coordinator, Dar-Yuan Lee, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Technical Coordinator, Chia-Bei Wei, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Counselor, Domy Adriano, University of Georgia's Savannah River Ecology Lab, USA

Invited Keynote Speakers
William H. Patrick, Jr. (deceased) and Patrick Masscheleyn
 Wetland Biogeochemistry Institute, Louisiana State University, USA
"Trace element redox chemistry in wetland soils and sediments "

Kevin G. Tiller (deceased), D.P. Oliver, M.J. McLaughlin, R.H. Merry and R. Naidu
CSIRO, Division of Soils, Australia
"Managing cadmium contamination of agricultural land"

National (Local) Organizing Committee (all from Taiwan)
Chair, S.S. Yang, National Taiwan University
Y.P. Wang, Co-Chair, National Chung-Hsing University
L.C. Chen, Environmental Protection Administration
S.P. Nee, Environmental Protection Administration
D.Y. Ku, Agriculture Council
G.L. Li, Taiwan Agricultural Chemical and Toxic Substances Research Institute
K.H. Houng, National Taiwan University
H.C. Lin, Sinotech Engineering Consultants, Inc.
S.C. Wu, The Chinese Institute of Environmental Engineering
R.K. Lin, National Taiwan University
S.L. Lo, National Taiwan University
C.M. Lee, National Chung-Hsing University
C.D. Lee, National Cheng-Kung University
C.F. Ouyang, National Central University
C.H. Chou, Acadimia Sinica
M.H. Yang, National Ching-Hua University
S.F. Cheng, National Ping-Tung Technology College
K.T. Lee, Dept. of Environmental Protection
R.S. Chung, National Taiwan University
C.T. Yang, National Taiwan University
Z.S. Chen, National Taiwan University
I.N. Ting, National Taiwan University
N.S. Shaw, National Taiwan University
C.Y. Chen, National Taiwan University
B.F. Lin, National Taiwan University
C.M. Liou, National Taiwan University

International Organizing Committee
Chair, Domy Adriano, University of Georgia's Savannah River Ecology Lab, USA
Co-Chair, Shang-Syng Yang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Co-Chair, Al Page, University of California, Riverside, USA
Mitsuo Chino, University of Tokyo, Japan
Brian Davies, University of Bradford, UK
Frans de Haan, Wageningen Agricultural University, Netherlands
Christian Juste, INRA, France
Barry Hart, Chisolm Institute of Technology, Australia
K.C. Lam, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Alina Kabata-Pendias, IUNG, Pulawy, Poland
John Huckabee, Electric Power Research Institute, USA
Alex Iskandar, U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, USA
A. M. Balba, University of Alexandria, Egypt
S.P. Nee, Environmental Protection Administration, Taiwan
Yin-Po Wang, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan
Zueng-Sang Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Program Committee
Chair, H.C. Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Co-Chair, C.M. Lai, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Co-Chair, R.S. Chung, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
C.H. Chou, Acadimia Sinica, Taiwan
M.K. Wang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
P.M. Huang, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Shio Kuo, Washington State University, USA
Kevin G. Tiller (deceased), CSIRO, Australia

Special Symposia
Sewage sludge
A.L. Page, Tsu-Chang Hung, T. Kubo, Min-Chao Wang

Bioconcentration and ecotoxicology
M. Chino, Liang-Pin Lin, R.L. Chaney, Shu-Woei Huang

Food chain
A. Kabata-Pendias, Hong-Chi Lin, F.A.M. de Haan, Yin-Po Wang

Soil remediation
D.C. Adriano, Kung-Huang Houng, R. Prost, Shuan-Fu Cheng

Metal-waste-organic interaction
Sadao Shoji, Yuan-Shin Chang, K.W. Brown, S.W. Li

Environmental chemistry and metal speciation
T. Christensen, Fang-Yin Lee, N. Senesi, Zueng-Sang   Chen

Main sponsors
Environmental Protection Administration (Republic of China)
The Council of Agriculture (ROC)
Ministry of Education (ROC)
National Science Council (ROC)
Ministry of the Interior (ROC)
National Taiwan University
Soil Science Society of America
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Conference Proceedings
Adriano, D.C., Z. S. Chen, and S.S. Yang (Editors).  1993. Proceedings of extended abstracts of 2nd International Conference on the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements. Taipei, Taiwan. September 5-10, 1993.

No electronic proceedings available.