The 8th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant will be convened in Madison, Wisconsin (USA), at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, an extraordinary conference facility designed by the famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright. You are invited to participate in this global mercury conference, which will again feature scientific advances in mercury research, with an expanded scope to include socioeconomic issues and public policy.
The International Conference on Mercury as a
Global Pollutant has become the preeminent international forum for
formal presentation and discussion of scientific advances concerning
environmental mercury pollution. The depth, breadth, and pace of
scientific discovery on the sources, environmental transport and fate,
biogeochemical cycling, and adverse effects of mercury have increased
enormously since the inaugural conference was convened in Sweden in
1990. In view of proposed U.S. and international actions on mercury
emissions, the 2006 conference will present a timely opportunity to
assimilate, synthesize, and disseminate scientific knowledge and
technical information in a form useful to policy discussions involving
mercury in the environment.
The 8th International Conference on Mercury as
a Global Pollutant will be convened in Madison, Wisconsin (USA), at the
Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, an extraordinary
conference facility designed by the famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
You are invited to participate in this global mercury conference, which
will again feature scientific advances in mercury research, with an
expanded scope to include socioeconomic issues and public policy.
The conference organizing committee has set three principal goals for the conference:
To enhance the synthesis of information
presented at the conference through an integration of focused plenary
sessions, poster sessions, conferee discussions, and synthesis papers;
To focus and enhance the integration of science and policy concerning environmental mercury pollution; and
To
increase participation by under-represented groups, including graduate
students, beginning professionals, and representatives of developing
nations.
This five-day conference will include a mixture of
focused plenary sessions, special sessions, and contributed poster
sessions. The calls for abstracts and proposals for special sessions
will be issued in May 2005. The deadline for submission of conferee
proposals for special sessions will be August 2005. The deadline for
submission of abstracts will be January 2006.
This web site will be the primary medium for
communicating information and announcements concerning the conference.
Submission of abstracts, submission of proposals for special sessions,
and pre registration of conferees will be done through the web site.
Please bookmark this web site and check it often for updates.
The conference organizing committee welcomes
your comments and suggestions as they proceed with planning and
arrangements for this important endeavor.
