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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.



Workshop Program

Day 1: Start of Workshop: 10:30 h

Introduction (Chairman Thomas Liljedahl)

10:30 -
10:35    		Welcome address,
Erik Björn, Umeå University

1076kB

10:35 -
10:55		 Chemical forms, occurrence, and speciation analysis of mercury,
Petra Krystek, RIVM, The Netherlands
   

The importance of mercury speciation for society
10:55 -
11:25  		Global mercury cycling,
John Munthe, Swedish Environmental Institute, Gothenburg, Sweden

1322kb

11:25 -
11:55   
The Mercury Problem in Boreal Lakes: Forestry, speciation and the search for explanation,
Kevin Bishop, Markus Meili, Mats Nilsson, SLU, Uppsala, Sweden

1934kb 

11:55 -
12:15    
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

820kb 

Lunch Break 12:15 - 13:20


State-of-the-art mercury speciation analysis, Chairman Ulf Skyllberg

13:20 -
14:20      
State-of-the-art of mercury speciation analysis, Erik Björn, Tom Larsson, Lars Lambertsson and Wolfgang Frech, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

560kb



How do speciation data improve risk assessment ? Chairman John Munthe
14:20 - 15:00   Human toxicity and mercury speciation,
Ulrike Bernauer. Bundesinstitut für Riskobewertung (BfR), Berlin, Germany

779kb 

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
  
15:30 - 15:50 Mercury in the workplace: air monitoring and exposure assessment procedures,
Owen Butler, Health and Safety Executive, Sheffield, U.K.

694kb 

15:50 - 16:10 Combining speciation and isotope labelling to assess net mercury methylation in sediment and soil samples, Mats Nilsson, SLU, Umeå, Sweden

98kb 

16:10 - 16:30 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

921kb 

8:50 - 9:10 Mercury speciation in routine analysis - current status and future prospects, Jürgen Kuballa GALAB, Hamburg, Germany

896kb

9:10 - 9:30 More samples, fewer methods. Douglas Baxter, Analytica, Luleå, Sweden
   

1329kb 

9:30 - 9:50 Mercury speciation for the Swedish Environmental Monitoring program, Ingvar Wännberg, John Munthe, IVL, Gothenburg, Sweden

1548kb 

9:50 - 10:10
 Accreditation of a speciation method: the example of methylmercury analysis in sediment, Jean-Philippe Gestem, BRGM, France

135kb


Coffee break 10:10 - 10:30 

The benefit of speciation analysis for soils, sediments and sludges;
chairman Owen Butler
10:30 -
10:45       		Safe remediation of soil at an industrial site in Sundsvall, Sweden, Sven-Åke Heinemo, Sweco-Viak

2021kb 

10:45 - 11:00 Speciation in risk assessment of soil, Nadja Lundgren, Tyréns, Umea

135kb

11:00 - 11:20 A simple field method to quantify mercury volatilization from soils,
Anja Stubbe, UFZ, Halle, Germany

2751kb 

11:20 - 11:40
 Development, Analysis and Assessment of Processes, S. Mangold, Institut für Synchrotronstrahlung, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
11:40 - 12:00
 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

647kb 


Lunch Break:  12:00 - 13:10   
 
How EVISA, the European Virtual Institute for Speciation Analysis, will
assist users
13:10 -
13:40 		EVISA - the premium source of speciation related information,
Michael Sperling, EVISA, University of Münster, Germany

2786kb 

13:40     
General discussion: What benefits do we see using mercury speciation?
Moderator: Michael Sperling, EVISA, University of Münster, Germany 		 


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