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| 08:00-08:30 | Registration | |||
| 08:30-10:00 | Oral Sessions | |||
| Session 1: Mercury Emissions: Monitoring and Analysis |
Session 2: Mercury Regulatory & Policy Matters |
Session 3: Mercury in Contaminated Sites Part (I) |
Session 4: Climate Change impact on Global Mercury Cycling |
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| 08:30-08:45 | 81, Prof Tian Hezhong, Beijing Normal University – Atmospheric mercury emissions from key industries in China: Characteristics, Amounts and Influence | 40, Susan Keane, Natural Resources Defense Council – Measuring Results of Mercury Reduction Strategies under Minamata NAPs: the case of planetGOLD | 149, Caiyan Feng,Technische Universität Braunschweig – Assessment of elemental mercury outgassing from groundwater and subsurface soils using passive air samplers | 275, Michael Bank, Institute Of Marine Research – The climate-mercury-fish nexus: A synthetic assessment from sub-Arctic and Arctic marine ecosystems |
| 08:45-09:00 | 142, Muntean Marilena, European Commission, Joint Research Centre – EDGARv8 anthropogenic speciated mercury emissions: hotspots, shift of key emitting sources on global gridmaps and trend analysis over five decades. | 391, Avipsa Mahapatra,Environmental Investigation Agency – Compound Facilitating Unabated Global Trade and Sales of Mercury-added Skin Lightening Products (SLPs) | 337, Chris Eckley, Us Epa – Measuring and modeling mercury transformation and flux processes downstream of the historical Black Butte Mercury Mine (Oregon, USA). | 56, Robert Mason, University Of Connecticut – Speciation and Distribution of Mercury in the Water Column and Sediments of the Bering and Chukchi Seas |
| 09:00- 09:15 | 273, Prof Jang Ha-Na,Yonsei University – Mercury Speciation and HAP Emissions in Commercial Sludge Combustion Plant | 361, Michael Bender, Zero Mercury Working Group – Engaging E-Commerce Platforms in Eliminating Toxic Trade in Mercury Added Cosmetics | 221, Federica Meloni, University Of Florence – Thermal desorption: an experimental technique to assess liquid Hg in different soil matrices | 318, Charlotte Haugk, Stockholm University – Mercury Mobility in Permafrost Peatlands of northern Scandinavia |
| 09:15-09:30 | 327, Kerneels Jaars, North-West University – Statistically evaluating the performance of mercury passive air sampler at a regional background site in South Africa | 236, Eisaku Toda, Secretariat Of The Minamata Convention – Establishment of mercury waste thresholds under the Minamata Convention | 272, Margaret Carrillo-Sheridan, Anchor QEA, LLC – Remediation of Mercury-Contaminated Former Industrial Facilities in Urbanized Areas | 90, Hannah Miller, University Of Colorado Boulder – Mercury Cycling in High Elevation Mountain Wetlands Under a Changing Climate |
| 09:30-09:45 | 364, Raiane, Da Cruz, Beneficent Association Of The Santa Catarina Coal Industry – Satc – Mercury emissions coal from tests in combustion pilot plant | 157,Håkan Tarras-Wahlberg, Planetgold Bolivia – Strategies to reduce mercury use in the Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining sector – evidence from Bolivia | 281, Vaselli Orlando, Department Of Earth Sciences – Mercury contamination in the former Hg-mining area of Abbadia San Salvatore (central Italy) and remediation: the status of the art | 347, M. Isabel Smith, University Of Southern California – Mercury stocks in discontinuous permafrost and their mobilization by river erosion and sedimentation in the Yukon River Basin |
| 09:45-10:00 | 226, Feiye Wang, University of Manitoba – Mercury emissions from Icelandic volcanism | 397 – Effective implementation plan for the Minamata COP5 ban on fluorescent Lighting in Africa, Rachel Kamande, CLASP | 245, Caleb Fontenot, Albemarle Corporation – Use of the remediation product MercLok™ P-640 to reduce mercury concentrations in effluent from wastewater treatment systems. | 125, Sarah Gigi, University Of Toronto Scarborough – Mercury Levels and Potential Methylation/ Demethylation Rates in Canadian High Arctic Sea and Lake Ice Cores |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee Break | |||
| 10:30-11:30 | Plenary #1 Conference Theme | |||
| 11:30-14:00 | Poster Session | |||
| Lunch | ||||
| 14:00-15:30 | Plenary #2 Effectiveness Evaluation | |||
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Oral Sessions | |||
| Session 5: Human Health Impacts | Session 6: Biogeochemical cycling of mercury with other elements |
Session 7: Addressing global Hg challenges in a changing world |
Session 8: Energy/ Fossil Fuels |
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| 16:00 -16:15 | 99, Laurie Chan, University Of Ottawa – The current evidence of the effects of mercury exposure on hypertension | 87, Celia Chen, Dartmouth College – Influence of mercury and other persistent pollutants on fish consumption advisories | 63, Helene Angot, CNRS, Institute of Environmental Geosciences – Exploring the concept of climate penalty in the context of mercury contamination | 27, Edward Archer, Macquarie University – Navigating Mercury Emission Reduction in Coal-Powered Economies |
| 16:15-16:30 | 136, Victoria Wagener, Perkin Elmer SA – Advanced Mercury Speciation Analysis in Fish Samples using NexSAR Speciation Solution | 88, Roxanne Razavi, SUNY Environmental College Science and Forestry ; Tropical peat: a highly vulnerable global mercury sink | 141, Colin McCarter, Nipissing University – Methylmercury Export from a Headwater Peatland Catchment Decreased with Cleaner Emissions Despite Opposing Effect of Climate Warming | 145, Peter Maxson, Concorde East/west Srl – Quantity and Fate of Mercury in Crude Oil |
| 16:30-16:45 | 187, Raj Allwin Mabes, Institute of Environmental Protection and Sensors – Advancing Mercury Detection: A MerB (Organomercurial-lyase)-based Solid-State Voltammetry Sensor for Methylmercury detection | 368, Eve-lyn, Hinckley, University Of Colorado, Boulder – Will a Changing Global Sulfur Cycling Affect Mercury Bioavailability? | 276, Mingyue Li, Institute Of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy Of Science – Climate change effects on mercury cycling in high-altitude environments: insights and perspectives from research in the Nam Co basin on the Tibetan Plateau |
54, Lesley Sloss, Unep Coal Partnership – Tuning compliance strategies to regional needs |
| 16:45-17:00 | 332, Adna Alilović, Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School – Mercury Exposure Assessment and Model Validation through Controlled Tuna Consumption Study | 383, Liubov Eltsova, Cherepovets State University – Mercury and stable isotopes of nitrogen and carbon in the hair of wild mammals of the Northwest of Russia | 300, Long Chen, East China Normal University – Global warming-induced vegetation changes affect atmospheric mercury cycling | 379, Yongsheng Zhang, North China Electric University – Supercritical CO2 coupled with mechanical force to enhance carbonation of fly ash, stabilization of mercury and other heavy metals in lab and a pilot |
| 17:00-18:30 | Posters & Happy Hour | |||
| 19:00-20:30 | SSC Closing Meeting | |||
| 19:30-21:00 | Student Social | |||
| 08:00-08:30 | Registration | ||||
| 08:30-10:00 | Oral Sessions | ||||
| Session 9: NIMD: Minamata Storyteller |
Session 10: ASGM activities in Africa |
Session 11: Mercury in Marine Ecosystems Part I |
Session 12: Special Session: Hg Networks & International Cooperation |
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| 08:30-08:45 | VI DEO | 134: Anne Nakafeero, National Environment Management Authority – Principal Environment Officer – Biodiversity & Rangelands | 224: Vivien Taylor, Dartmouth College – Particle-bound mercury dynamics in the Gulf of Maine | 210 – Prof Guey-Rong Sheu, Overview of the Asia Pacific Mercury Monitoring Network (APMMN) | |
| 08:45-09:00 | 358: Stephan Bose-O’reilly, University Hospital, LMU Munich – Impact of environmental health research in artisanal and small-scale gold mining sites in Zimbabwe | 355: Raphaël, A. Lavoie,Environment and Climate Change Canada – Movement and foraging ecology affect mercury exposure in breeding seabirds. | 193 -Alexandra Steffen,Environment And Climate Change Canada; Canadas Global Mercury Passive Sampling Network – A Global International Collaboration | ||
| 09:00-09:15 | 394: Babajide Alo, University Of Lagos, Nigeria – GOVERNANCE STRATEGIES FOR MERCURY USE AND REDUCTIONS: NIGERIA CASE STUDY | 207: Sae Yun Kwon, Pohang University Of Science And Technology – Mercury exposure determined by unique oxidation pathways in mid- and high-latitude marine food webs | 126 Tatsuya Hattori, IDEA Consultants, Inc. – Japan’s International Cooperation to Support Implementation of Minamata Convention | ||
| 09:15-09:30 | 97: Bally Dominique Kpoko, University Of Wollongong – New measurements of mercury contamination in air, soil, sediments, and tailings at artisanal and small-scale gold mining sites across Côte d’Ivoire | 127: Johannes West, University of California San Diego – Linking Dimethylmercury and Monomethylmercury in a North Pacific Upwelling Region | 117 Ashu Dastoor, Environment and Climate Change Canada – Multi-model mercury simulation and analysis initiative to inform the Minamata and Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution Conventions | ||
| 09:30-09:45 | 376: Janet Munakamwe, Wits Mining Institute, University Of The Witwatersrand – Towards a Mercury-free Artisanal and Small-scale Mining Regime in a Just Energy Transition | 163: Hannah Adams, Scripps Insititution of Oceanography – A time series of mercury speciation at Scripps Pier, La Jolla, CA: Insights on methylmercury production and cycling in the surface ocean | 378 Linroy Christian, Department Of Analytical Services – The Caribbean Region Mercury Monitoring Network | ||
| 09:45-10:00 | 171: Marcello Veiga, University Of British Columbia – Obtaining Gold and Mercury Losses in an Artisanal Mining Site in Nigeria | 305: Bonusa Nabila Huda, Nexus3 Foundation – Health Hazard of Mercury-contaminated Fish from the Indonesian Marine Fish Ecosystem | 243 Susanne Fietz, Stellenbosch University – Knowledge and technology transfer to investigate marine mercury contamination in SA: An SA-France collaboration | ||
| 10:00-10:15 | NIMD | 309: Saidou Kabre, Artisanal Gold Council – Scaling up Mercury-Free Processing Technology: Installation of MFPS and Promoting Mercury-Free Processing Technologies in Burkina Faso | 101: Carl Lamborg, University Of California-santa Cruz – Mercury speciation across the South Pacific and Southern Ocean on the U.S. GEOTRACES (GP-17 OCE): a preliminary evaluation | 359 Lynwill Martin , Sa Weather Service – The South African Mercury Network: How scientific cooperation can help fill in the data gaps | |
| 10:15-10:30 | 201: Djamilatou Dabre, Université Joseph Ki-zerbo – Impact of Artisanal Small-scale Goldmining in West Africa: Assessment of mercury levels and speciation in water and soil of mining sites along the Mouhoun River (Burkina Faso) | 33: Jacek Beldowski, Institute of Oceanology PAS – Effect of sediment resuspension on near-bottom mercury dynamics: Insights from a Baltic sea Experiment | |||
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 11:00-12:00 | Plenary #3 ASGM | ||||
| 12:00-14:00 | Poster Session | ||||
| Lunch | |||||
| 14:00-16:30 | Oral Sessions | ||||
| Session 13: Special Session Hg in the Southern Hemisphere Part (I) |
Session 14: Human Exposure and Risk Assessment of Hg |
Session 15: Mercury in Polar Ecosystems |
Session 16: Mercury in Artisanal Gold Mining Part (I) |
Session 17: Special Session: New Methods for Atmospheric Mercury Measurement and Calibration |
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| 14:00-14:15 | 265 Maria Dieguez, CONICET-INIBIOMA – Mercury in shallow and deep lakes within a Hg hotspot of the southeastern Patagonian Andes: insights into seasonal and spatial patterns | 35 Leonid Kopylev, Us Epa – Scientific Challenges in the Update of an Assessment of Methylmercury Neurotoxicity | 217 Julie Charrrier, CNRS – Littoral Environnement et Sociétés (LIENSs), UMR 7266 CNRS – La Rochelle Université – Combining Hg stable isotopes and sea ice biomarker to provide new insights into the role of sea ice as a source of Hg contamination in Arctic seabirds | 154 Henrik Selin, Boston University – Using systems analysis to evaluate interventions towards sustainability in artisanal and small-scale gold mining | 55 Mae Gustin, University Of Nevada – Results of the workshop- Measurement of Atmospheric Mercury: Assessment of new measurement and calibration methods and development of a path forward |
| 14:15-14:30 | 129 Sofia Shah, Usp – Mercury levels in some locally consumed freshwater fish, bivalves and canned tuna from selected areas of Viti Levu, Fiji. | 32 -Dirk Wallschläger, Wilfrid Laurier University – Stochiometric relationship between mercury and selenium in the nutrition of populations in the Northwest Territories (Canada), with special emphasis on remote indigenous communities | 336 Stephen Kohler,Norwegian University Of Science And Technology (ntnu) – Transformation of methylmercury at the beginning of the Arctic spring bloom | 39 Kenneth Davis, UN Environment Programme – Insights from the analysis of artisanal and small-scale gold mining Minamata Convention National Action Plans | 161 Jan Gačnik, Jožef Stefan Institute – Gold sampling for atmospheric mercury analysis: insights and limitations |
| 14:30-14:45 | 190 Larissa Schneider,Australian National University – From North to South of Australia: A Comprehensive Examination of Atmospheric Mercury Deposition and their Implications for the Southeast Asia Mercury Cycle | 38 Kristin Eccles, Health Canada – The development and application of methylmercury-to-total mercury ratios for exposure assessment of methylmercury from the consumption of traditional foods | 247 Beatriz Malcata Martins,Centro De Química Estrutural, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade De Lisboa – Uncovering mercury methylation potential and microbial communities involved in Subarctic thermokarst lakes | 172 Marcello Veiga,University Of British Columbia – How Projects on Mercury-Free for AGM Could be More Effective | 91 Livia Lown, University Of Nevada, Reno – Alternate materials for the capture and quantification of gaseous oxidized mercury compounds from the atmosphere |
| 14:45-15:00 | 189 Gustavo Chiang, Universidad Andres Bello – Chungara Chronicles: Exploring mercury dynamics in Chile’s highest lake | 112 – Chunfang Gan, Institute Of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy Of Sciences/Guizhou Medical University – The Relationship between Maternal Prenatal Mercury Exposure and Neonatal Neurodevelopment: A Prospective Cohort Study in Wanshan Mercury Mining Area, Guizhou Province | 233 João Canário,Centro De Química Estrutural – Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade De Lisboa – Mercury dynamics in thermokarst lakes in continuous permafrost areas: Zackenberg Valley, Northeast Greenland | 144 Ludovic Bernaudat,UNEP – planetGOLD programme as a vehicle for implement of National Action Plan and ultimately reporting progress on the Minamata Convention | 72 Sarrah Dunham-cheatham, University Of Nevada, Reno – Towards a gas chromatography mass spectrometry method for quantification and characterization of ambient gaseous oxidized mercury compounds |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 15:30-15:45 | 43 Yipeng He,Florida International University – Air-sea exchange of elemental Hg and dimethylmercury in the South Pacific and Southern Ocean | 150 Sarah Rothenberg,Oregon State University – Associations between in utero methylmercury exposure and child’s weight from birth to 36 months in rural China and Norway | 36 Dominika Saniewska, Department of Chemical Oceanography and Marine Geology, University of Gdansk – Mercury sources, accumulation and biomagnification in the Antarctic coastal zone: Insights from isotopic fingerprints | 271Feiyue Wang,University of Manitoba – Mercury legacy from historical silver refining in Hispanic America: a tale from Guanajuato, Mexico | 61 Seth Lyman, Utah State University -Advances in permeation tube-based mercury calibration |
| 15:45-16:00 | 96 Badkhat Rawat, Centre For Atmospheric Chemistry, University Of Wollongong (UOW) – Long-term monitoring of atmospheric mercury and its source contributions in Kennaook/Cape Grim, Australia | 304 Bonusa Huda, Nexus3 Foundation – Monitoring Mercury Impact on Children Living in Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) Hotspots | 21 Ewa Korejwo, Institute Of Oceanology Polish Academy Of Sciences – Mercury in the Arctic and Antarctica: The Role of Benthic Organisms | 360 Loic Martin,Ird – Mercury stable isotopes as a tool to study the impacts of Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining on rivers in the Guianas | 228 Geyan Kempkes, University Of Pretoria -Development of a novel graphene-based passive air sampler to bridge gaps in atmospheric mercury data in South Africa |
| 16:00-16:15 | 296 Liezl Bredenkamp, North-west University – A Multi-Year Record of Atmospheric Gaseous Elemental Mercury Concentrations at a Regional Site in the South African Interior | 119 Ping Li, Institute Of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy Of Sciences- Health effects and economic benefit of pollution remediation in typical mercury mining area | 239 Susanne Fietz,Stellenbosch University – Mercury over southern Africa and the Southern Ocean | 170 Marcello Veiga, University Of British Columbia – Use of bitter cassava as an alternative to gold amalgamation | 223 -Tricks of the Trade: Building Instrumentation for Atmospheric Mercury , Trevor O’Neil, Utah State University |
| 16:15-16:30 | 266 Jennifer Powell,Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organisation (CSIRO) – Characterising summertime atmospheric mercury in the Southern Ocean and Antarctic Coast marine boundary layer during the 2024 MISO Voyage | 73 Cassey Bartrem, TIFO – Assessing and Mitigating Human Health Risks in Mercury Mining Communities: A Case Study in the Kyrgyz Republic | 111 Anna Panasiuk,University Of Gdańsk – Mercury in the Antarctic pelagic ecosystem – krill Euphausia superba and Pygoscelis penguins – transfer from the food to the top predators | 200 Naomi Nitscheke, Université Grenoble Alpes – Effect of natural and assisted revegetation of an alluvial gold mine on the reduction of mercury remobilisation from soil and transport to hydrosystems (French Guiana) | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Posters & Happy Hour | ||||
| 08:00-08:30 | Registration | ||||
| 08:30-10:30 | Oral Sessions | ||||
| Session 18: Special Session: Hg and MeHg in marine food webs
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Session 19: Special Session: Microbial communities and Hg transformation
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Session 20: Special Session: Mercury and Biodiversity |
Session 21: Mercury in the Terrestrial Ecosystems |
Session 22: Special Session: The Impact of Mercury Across the Oil and Gas Value Chain
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| 08:30-08:45 | 315: Isabel Garcia Arevalo, Ifremer – Taking Into Account the Phycosphere: What Does it Mean for Regional Hg and MeHg Bioaccumulation? | 241: Bo Meng, Institute Of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy Of Sciences – Microbial Mercury Methylation in Rice Paddy Soils | 307: Paco Bustamante, La Rochelle University – Ecological factors Differentially Affect Mercury Levels in Two Species of Sympatric Pinnipeds from the Southern Indian Ocean | Emerging 999 | 385: Stuart Baker, Qa3 Limited – The Assessment and Impact of Mercury on Asset Decommissioning. |
| 08:45-09:00 | 377: Johannes Bieser, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon – A Global Model for Marine Mercury Cycling and Bioaccumulation | 192: Haiyan Hu, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Identification of Methanogens Responsible for MeHg Demethylation in Rice Paddy Soils | 344: Timothy Tear, Biodiversity Research Institute – Developing a Global Mercury Threat Assessment Based on Mapping Ecosystem Sensitivity to Methylation and Risk of Mercury Contamination. | 393: Jay James, Picoyune – Direct Measurement of Mercury in Natural Gas with Plasmonic Sensors. | |
| 09:00-09:15 | 362: Laura C. Motta, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution – The Journey of Anthropogenically Emitted Mercury to Planktons in South-East Asian Oceans according to Stable Isotopes | 264: Yu-Rong Liu, Huazhong Agricultural University – Illuminating Microbial Taxa Responsible for Methylmercury Degradation by Tracking Carbon Consumption | 369: Luis Fernandez, Wake Forest University / CINCIA – Avian Mercury Exposure in Gold Mining Areas of the Southern Peruvian Amazon | 387: Kevin Bishop, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences – Revealing the Fate of Industrial-Era Mercury in Peatlands with Micrometeorology, Isotopes, Paleoecology, Genomics, and an Ice-Age2 | 384: Stuart Baker, Qa3 Limited – Production and Challenges – A High-Level Synopsis of Mercury Across the Global Oil and Gas Value Chain |
| 09:15-09:30 | 78: Zofia Baumann, University of Connecticut – Novel Data on Methylmercury Bioaccumulation in Natural Marine Plankton from Coastal North Atlantic Ocean | 71: Qiang Pu, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Horizontal Gene Transfer Mitigates the Effect of Cadmium on Key Mercury-Methylating Microorganisms in Paddy Soils | 131: Imelda Dossou Etui, United Nations Environment Programme – Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining and Biodiversity: A Global Literature Review | 98: Carl Mitchell, University Of Toronto Scarborough – Forest Harvesting Impacts on Methylmercury Production and Export in Central Canadian Boreal Watersheds | 188: Warren Corns, PS Analytical Ltd – Solubility and Fate of Mercury in Gas Processing Solvents |
| 09:30-09:45 | 319: Ginevra Rosati, National Institute Of Oceanography And Applied Geophysics – Ogs – Modelling Mercury Bioaccumulation in Reared Clams from a Temperate Polluted Lagoon | 64: Xujun Liang, Northwest A & F University – Migration and Methylation of Mercury in Legacy Contaminated Sites Driven by Climate Change | 77: Chris Sayers, University of California, Los Angeles – Assessing the Impacts of Gold Mining to Avian Communities in the Peruvian Amazon | 105: Langfei Wei, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Low Soil Mercury Caused High Rice Mercury in High Geological Background Region and Its Possible Mechanism | 114: Lhiam Paton, University Of Graz – Are Future Oil and Gas Decommissioning Sites Potential Sources for Mercury Contamination in the Deep Sea? |
| 09:45-10:00 | 147: David Amptmeijer, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon – Feeding Strategy as a Key Driver of Mercury (Hg) Bioaccumulation at the Base of the Marine Food Web. | 108: Jiang Liu, College Of Resources, Sichuan Agricultural University – Mercury Stress and Methylation Promote Carbon Emission from Rice Paddy Soils | 366: Luis Fernandez, Wake Forest University / CINCIA – Understanding the Impacts of Mercury Contamination from ASGM in Amazonian Wildlife: A Seven Year Case Study from Madre de Dios, Peru | 34: Barna Heidel, Esslingen University – Development of a Remote-Controlled System for Bioremediation and Phytoextraction Experiments for Research and Teaching Purposes | 399: Stuart Baker, Qa3 Limited – Decontamination of Decommissioned Mercury Contaminated Subsea Pipeline Infrastructure |
| 10:00-10:15 | 295: Adriana Wojdasiewicz, University Of Gdańsk – Bioaccumulation and Transfer of Mercury in the Body of Cosmopolitan Moon Jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) | 123: Xia Lu, Lanzhou University -Microbial Mercury Methylation in Tibetan Thermokarst Lakes | 341: David Evers, Biodiversity Research Institute – Using the Global Biotic Mercury Synthesis to better understand adverse impacts of methylmercury availability on biodiversity. | 277: Mary Chuong, Umea University – Methylmercury Formation in Cambodian Rice Paddy Soil | 400: Stuart Baker, Qa3 Limited – Innovative Strategies for Mercury Decontamination of Oil and Gas Process Equipment: Ensuring Environmental Safety and Compliance |
| 10:15-10:30 | 353: Raphaël, A. Lavoie, Environment and Climate Change Canada – Mercury Biomagnification and Large-Scale Distribution Using Seabirds as Innovative Samplers | 401: Allison Aldous, The Nature Conservancy – Mercury Contamination: The Threat that Entwines People and Biodiversity | 269: Joshua Landis, Dartmouth College – Latitudinal Gradients and Quantitative Accumulation of Atmospheric Hg in Forest Soils | ||
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Plenary #4 Next Generation Abstracts 47 85 &168 will Speak here: 47: Mi-Ling Li, University of Delaware – Assessing Sources and Bioaccumulation of Mercury in Two Contrasting Arctic Ecosystems Using Stable Mercury Isotopes. 85: Jacqueline Gerson, Michigan State University – The Impact of Agricultural Sulfur Use on Mercury Methylation in Vineyards, 168: Aryeh Feinberg, IQF-CSIC – Increasing Anthropogenic Emissions are Inconsistent with the Declining Atmospheric Mercury Concentrations Observed in the Northern Hemisphere | ||||
| Sight Seeing & Tours | |||||
| 08:00-08:30 | Registration | |||
| 08:30-10:30 | Oral Sessions | |||
| Session 23: Mercury in Freshwater Ecosystems |
Session 24: Special Session: Mercury Pollution in Asia |
Session 25: Special Session Advancing Metrological Practices |
Session 26: Mercury Control Technologies |
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| 08:30-08:45 | 372: Hui Zhang, Institute Of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy Of Sciences – A complete understanding of the sources and pathways of mercury deposited to lake ecosystem using a stable mercury isotope mass balance model | 42: Xinbin Feng, Institute Of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy Of Sciences – Combating Air Pollution Significantly Reduced Air Mercury Concentrations in China | 291: Milena Horvat, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia – Metrological Study of a Continuous Flow Calibration Technique for Atmospheric Mercury | 196: Haomiao Xu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Mercury Abatement and Recycling from Non-Ferrous Smelting Flue Gas |
| 08:45-09:00 | 70: Charles Driscoll, Syracuse University – Long-term trends and patterns in mercury in atmospheric deposition, a lake-watershed mass balance and fish tissue analysis in the Adirondack region of New York | 287: Milena Horvat, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia – An Improved Remote Sampling Technique for Atmospheric Pollutants | 49: Zan Qu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University – Research on Mercury Pollution Control and Resource Utilization Technology of Industrial Flue Gas | |
| 09:00-09:15 | 340: Karin Eklöf, Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet – Methylmercury in Water from Newly Inundated Forest Landscapes | 261: Qingru Wu, Tsinghua Univiersity – Mapping China’s Mercury Emission (1978-2021) Based on Point Sources | 178: Iris De Krom, VSL -SI Traceable Calibration Methods for Mercury Gas Generators | 139: Scharrenbach Frank, New Environmental Technology GmbH – From Toxic to Non-Toxic What Options Are Available to Prevent Mercury Blowouts in Flue Gas Systems |
| 09:15-09:30 | 83: Vera Slaveykova, University Of Geneva – Beyond Bioaccumulation: Probing Mercury’s Effects on Phytoplankton Metabolism | 262: Qingru Wu, Tsinghua Univiersity – Drivers of global mercury emissions during 2017 – 2022 | 128: Koichi Haraguchi, National Institute for Minamata Disease – Advancements in Mercury Measurement and Global Comparability: Insights from Inter-Laboratory Exercises and Proficiency Testing Programs | 222: Vera Roth, Chalmers University Of Technology – Electrochemical Alloy Formation for Mercury Decontamination of Aqueous Solutions |
| 09:30- 09:45 | 225: Vivien Taylor, Dartmouth College – Mercury Bioaccumulation in Zooplankton and Fish From the Deep and Shallow Basins of Lake Champlain | 274: Qianggong Zhang, Institute Of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy Of Sciences – Melting Himalayas and Mercury Export: Results and Perspectives from Everest Proglacial Rongbuk River and Trans-Himalayan Koshi River | 194: Akane Yamakawa, National Institute For Environmental Studies – Use of Environmental Reference Materials (RMs) for Quality Control of Precise Isotopic Measurements | 303: Li Jia, Taiyuan University of Technology – Study on Mercury Removal Performance and Mechanism of Cu-BTC/FeCu-BC Composite Adsorbent |
| 09:45-10:00 | 166: Young Gwang Kim, Pohang University Of Science And Technology – Elucidating Mercury Sources and Exposure Pathways to Bivalves Using Mercury Stable Isotopes. | 213: Liyuan Liu, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences – Temporal and Spatial Analysis of Anthropogenic Mercury and CO2 Emissions from Municipal Solid Waste Incineration in China: Implications for Mercury and Climate Change | 186: Igor Zivkovic, Jozef Stefan Institute – Requirements for Comparable Mercury Speciation Analyses in Seawater | 373: Jinjing Luo, Xiamen University – Adsorption Mechanism of Gaseous Elemental Mercury on Carbon Nanotubes with Typical Functional Groups |
| 10:00-10:15 | 46: Jiajia Li, 西南大学 – Impact of Anthropogenic Nutrient Inputs on Mercury (Hg) Methylation and Demethylation in Sediments of a Nutrient-Enriched Lake | 290: Asif Qureshi, IIT Hyderabad – Mercury and Other Trace Elements in the Sediments and Representative Biota of an Anthropogenically Impacted Estuary | 218: Sreekanth Vijayakumaran Nair, Jožef Stefan Institute – Stability of Common Preconcentration Methods for Gaseous Oxidized Mercury in Air | 235: Eisaku Toda, Secretariat Of The Minamata Convention – Minamata Convention Guidance on Best Available Techniques and Best Environmental Practices to Control Mercury Releases |
| 10:15-10:30 | 50: Mark Johnson, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency – Identifying the Role of Native Versus Non-Native Wetland Vegetation to Influence Methylmercury Production | 231: Hua Zhang, Institute Of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy Of Science – Mercury Pollution and Health Risks in Chinese Fish and Rice | 104: Kun Zhang, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Using Mercury Stable Isotopes to Quantify Directional Soil-Atmosphere Hg(0) Exchange in Rice Paddy Ecosystems: Implications for Hg(0) Emission to Atmosphere from Land Surfaces | 371: Huazhen Chang, Renmin University Of China – Catalytic Oxidation of Hg0 Over Co-Based Mixed Metal Oxides Catalyst |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| 11:00-12:00 | Plenary #5 Mercury and Biodiversity | |||
| 12:00-14:00 | Poster Session | |||
| Lunch | ||||
| 14:00-16:30 | Oral Sessions | |||
| Session 27: Mercury Stable Isotopes: Monitoring the effectiveness of the Minamata Convention |
Session 28: Special Session: Hg Research in the SH Part (II) |
Session 29: Risk Assessment and Hg exposure to wild life, birds & fish |
Session 30: Atmospheric Hg cycling: Source & Emissions |
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| 14:00-14:15 | 84: David Amouroux, CNRS – UPPA / IPREM – Re-Assessment of Methylmercury Photodemethylation Pathways and Hg Isotopic Fractionation in Model Freshwater | 69: Margot Schneider, Australian National University – Climate-Induced Changes in Mercury Deposition in South-Eastern Australia, a Study From the Last Glacial Maximum to the Mid-Holocene (6,500 to 20,000 Years BP) | 227: Zhangwei Wang, Research Center For Eco-environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy Of Sciences – Migratory Birds Methylmercury Exposure in Eastern China： Risk and Challenge |
17: Satoshi Irei, National Institute For Minamata Disease – Gaseous Mercury Emission from Open Prescribed Grassland Burning in Japan |
| 14:15-14:30 | 185: Igor Zivkovic, Jozef Stefan Institute – Origin of Mercury in Soils in the Vicinity of Emission Sources Using Stable Isotope Approach | 280: Vincent Lal, The University Of The South Pacific – Lessons Learnt from 20-Years of Mercury Analysis in Tuna from the South West Pacific: Establishing a Regional Reference Laboratory for Long-Term Mercury Monitoring in the Pacific | 302: Antoine Grissot, CNRS LIENSs – The Role of Mercury Exposure on the Stress Landscape of a Wintering Arctic Seabird Species, the Brunnich’s Guillemot Uria Lomvia. | 205: Jacopo Cabassi, Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources (IGG), National Research Council of Italy (CNR) – Gaseous Elemental Mercury (GEM) in Florence (central Italy): measurements at point stations and comparison with other gaseous pollutants |
| 14:30-14:45 | 267: Saebom Jung, Pohang University Of Science And Technology – Temporal Dynamics and Internal Variations of Mercury Isotopes in a Marine Fish (Starry flounder, Platichthys stellatus) During Bioaccumulation and Excretion | 109: Jean Guimaraes, UFRJ – Ecotoxicological Impacts of Mercury Cyanide in Zebrafish (Danio rerio): effects of chronic exposure | 67: Jabi Zabala, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU – Experimental Exposure of a Model Fish Species to Methylmercury and Food Restriction Reveals Interactive Effects of Stressors and Complex Responses at Multiple Reproductive Endpoints | 288: Oleg Travnikov, Jozef Stefan Institute – Multi-Model Atmospheric Simulations Under the Multi-Compartment Mercury Modeling and Analysis Project (MCHgMAP) |
| 14:45-15:00 | 257: Ryan Lepak, Us Environmental Protection Agency – Drivers of Mercury Contamination, Methylmercury Formation and Mercury Sources Within Lake Sediments Across the Contiguous United States | 94: Francisco Quesada, Andrés Bello University – Mercury Biomagnification on Aquatic Trophic Webs: A meta-analysis of the Southern Hemisphere | 121: Yanju Ma, Guangxi Normal University – Mercury Threat to Declining Migratory Shorebirds Along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway | 62: Seth Lyman, Utah State University – GEOS-Chem is Unable to Reproduce High Oxidized Mercury Episodes in Western U.S.A. |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break | |||
| Session 27: Mercury Stable Isotopes: Cycling and isotopic fractionation in global forests Xin Bin & Jerry Lin |
Session 28: Mercury in Marine Ecosystems Part II | Session 29: Mercury in Artisanal Gold Mining Part (II) | Session 30: Atmospheric Hg cycling: Source & Emissions | |
| 15:30-15:45 | 206: Xu Liu, Southwest University – Historical Atmospheric Mercury Concentration Reconstructed from Tree Rings in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau | 310: Alina Kleindienst, University of Pau – Methylation, Demethylation and Reduction in Coastal Waters of the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean | 174: Peter Weiss-Penzias, University Of California, Santa Cruz – Investigating Mercury Uptake, Release, Chemical Speciation, and Isotope Fractionation in Native and Transplanted Lichens at Legacy Mercury Mine and Background Locations | 333: Koketso Molepo, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Insights into Hg0 Air-Sea Exchange Using Long-Term Atmospheric Observations from Coastal Monitoring Sites |
| 15:45-16:00 | 124: Kang Luo, State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Mercury Bioaccumulation and Transfer in Subtropical Forest Bird Food Chains Insights from vivo-Nest Videorecording and Mercury Isotopes | 106: Cathryn Sephus, Scripps Institution Of Oceanography – Exploring Biogeochemical Cycling of Mercury in Hypersaline Environments | 197: Giordano Montegrossi, CNR-IGG Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources – Monitoring, Assessment, and Possible Remediation in the Abandoned Hg-mine of Abbadia San Salvatore (central Italy) | 212: Hui Zhang, Institute Of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy Of Sciences – An Interhemispheric Difference in Atmospheric Gaseous Elemental Mercury Isotopes Suggests an Overestimation of Oceanic Mercury Emissions |
| 16:00-16:15 | 135: Nantao Liu, State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Mercury Isotopic Evidences Reveal Precipitation Controls Mercury Accumulation in Soils of Tianshan No. 1 Glacier Retreat Area | 306: Sabine Azemard, Iaea – "Mercury in the Ocean": IAEA’s Global Network of Analytical Laboratories for Mercury Data Collection. | 335: Jessie Samaniego, Department of Science and Technology – Philippine Nuclear Research Institute – Mercury Species, Stable Isotopes and Distribution of Total Mercury in Coastal Sediments of Honda Bay, Palawan, Philippines | 268: Lei Zhang, Nanjing University – Does Wetland Act as a Source or a Sink of Atmospheric Mercury? |
| 16:15-16:30 | 175: Meiqing Sun, State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang – The Mechanism of Foliar Physiological Parameters Restricting Foliar Assimilation of Atmospheric Mercury in Typical Forest Ecosystems | 354: Raphaël, A. Lavoie, Environment and Climate Change Canada – Spatio-Temporal Trends of Mercury in Eggs of Aquatic Bird Species Across the St. Lawrence River and Estuary (Canada) | 246: Caleb Fontenot, Albemarle Corporation – In-situ Remediation of Mercury-Contaminated Mining Calcines Using a Novel Amendment Product Known as MercLok™ P-640 | 329: Deming Han, Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences – Photochemical Reduction of Oxidised Mercury in Atmospheric Aerosol Water |
| 16:30-18:00 | Posters & Happy Hour | |||
| 08:00-08:30 | Registration | |||
| 08:30-10:00 | Oral Sessions | |||
| Session 31: Special Session: Advances in statistical/machine learning and process-based models |
Session 32: Mercury in Contaminated Sites Part (II) |
Session 33: Meta-omic and geochemical approaches to linking microbial activity to biogeochemical mercury cycling | Session 34: Special Session: Mercury-selenium interaction in biota |
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| 08:30-08:45 | 263: Lei Zhang, Nanjing University – Long-Term Changes in Contributions of Anthropogenic and Natural Perturbations to Atmospheric Mercury in the United States | 348: Dimitrios Vlassopoulos, Anchor QEA Inc.- Remediation of Mercury in Groundwater by In Situ Chemical Fixation: Geochemical Characterization and Modeling Are Keys to Success | 250: Jin-Ping Xue, Universite de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour – Microbial and Photochemical Processes Controlling Mercury Speciation in an Athalassic Sulfate-Rich Saline Lake, NE Spain | 249: Zoyne Pedrero Zayas, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) – Deciphering Mercury and Selenium Interactions in Fish: a Kinetic Comprehensive Speciation and Isotopic Study in Rainbow Trout with Tuna-Based Diets |
| 08:45-09:00 | 156: Eric Roy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Top-down Constraints on Mercury Emissions from Diffuse Sources | 312: Shannon Plunkett, Duke University – Fate, Transport, and Bioavailability of Mercury Downstream Cyanidation Plants in a Major ASGM-Impacted River | 122: Yongli Wang, Texas Tech University – Global Survey of hgcA-Carrying Genomes in Marine and Freshwater Sediments | 251: Juliette Esplugas, CNRS – Unraveling Mercury Species Dynamics and Potential Interactions with Selenium: A Study in Amazonian Riverine Communities |
| 09:00-09:15 | 164: Yanxu Zhang, Nanjing University – Global Mercury Cycling: An Earth System Modeling Approach | 148: Steve Dent, Cdm Smith – An Approach to Effectively Characterizing a River Impacted by a Historical Mercury Mine Using a Combination of Abiotic and Biotic Media | 82: Ikram Bakour, Universität Bern – Mercury Interaction with S-containing Molecules: Implications for Potential Methylation and Demethylation Regulation in a Sulfate Reducing Bacteria | 339: Adna Alilović, Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School – Exploring Selenium-Mercury Interactions in Human Systems: Insights from Controlled Fish Consumption and Biomarker Analysis |
| 09:15 – 09:30 | 137: Long Chen, East China Normal University – Improved mechanistic modeling on reproducing particulate bound mercury in the marine atmosphere | 173: Bryn Thoms, Oregon DEQ – Identifying Spatial Patterns of Mercury and Methylmercury Concentrations and Loads Downstream of Historical Mining Areas in the Western USA | 330: Marisol Goni Urriza, Iprem University Of Pau – Microbial Interactions Between Sulfate Reducing Bacteria and Anoxygenic Phototrophs Affect Hg Methylation | 293: Janja Snoj Tratnik, Jozef Stefan Institute – Mercury Exposure, Fish Consumption and Neurodevelopment: Findings from the Northern Adriatic Birth Cohort Study |
| 09:30 – 09:45 | 92: Darshi Hewa Edirappulige, SUNY College Of Environmental Science and Forestry – Computational Chemistry Re-interprets Lab and Field Studies of Nitrate Radical Initiation of Oxidation of Hg(0) | 183: Jason Silvertooth, CDM Smith – Characterizing Mercury Dynamics in a Flood Control Reservoir Downstream of a Historical Mercury Mine | 328: Sophie Barrouilhet, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour – Genetic Determinisms Involved in Mercury Resistance Mechanism in a Sulfate Reducing Bacterium: Impact on Mercury Accumulation and Methylation | 260: Laurent Ouerdane, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour – New Insights in Hg and Se Speciation in the Rainbow Trout, an Aquaculture Model |
| 09:45 – 10:00 | 60: Alfonso Rodriguez, Pure Earth – Mercury Management – First Temporary Mercury Storage Unit and Institutional Protocol in Colombia | 253: Rosa Carmen Rodríguez Martín-doimeadios, Universidad De Castilla-la Mancha – Critical Assessment of Sample Preparation Methods for the Study of HgSe Nanoparticles in Fish Tissues by SP-ICP-MS | ||
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee Break | |||
| 10:30 – 11:30 | Plenary #6 Industry & Energy Abstract 389 will speak here: Alexandra De Vos, Sasol – Mercury Point Source Emissions in South Africa: Developments in the Energy and Petrochemical Sector | |||
| 11:30 – 14:00 | Closing Ceremony | |||