ICMGP 2013 - Final Agenda

Room	Monday (29/07/2013)	Tuesday (30/07/2013)	Wednesday (31/07/2013)	Thursday (01/08/2013)	Friday (02/08/2013)
Pentland	Panel 1- policy/health/monitoring P01 (Time: 08:30 - 10:30)	Panel 2- human P02 (Time: 08:30 - 10:30)	Panel 3-sources and industry P03 (Time: 08:30 - 10:30)	Atmospheric mercury G06	Atmospheric mercury G08
Sidlaw	The state of mercury science in Canada and how it informs policy - the Canadian experience S16	Development of a Global Mercury Observation System S12	Analytical methodologies G01	Mercury stable isotope biogeochemistry G02	Mercury bioaccumulation and trophic transfer G20
Fintry	Mercury in marine ecosystems G23	Environmental Biogeochemistry - field approaches G14	Environmental Biogeochemistry - lab and experimental approaches G17	Environmental Biogeochemistry - lab and experimental approaches G18	Mercury regulatory issues and policy G29
Tinto	Organisms, pathways and regulations behind biological methylmercury production from the cell to the ecosystem S06	Fixing the world's biggest mercury problem: artesanal and small scale gold mining S20	Mercury in Polar ecosystems G27	Health effects of mercury: the child cohort studies in the Faroe Islands S23	Mercury activities in China and the lessons that can be shared S10
Moorfoot	Control technologies G09	Mercury and climate change G28	Mercury in the oil and gas processing industry S04	Defining natural and anthropogenic mercury impacts S17	Mercury chemistry interactions affecting exposure risks and health effects (eg Se, fatty acids, PCBs) G16
Kilsyth	Human exposure and risk assessment methods G25	Control technologies G10	Mercury contamination in rice agriculture: a growing global threat to human and wildlife health? S05	Contaminated sites G11	Mercury in marine mammals and human health risk S15
Ochil	Clear cutting, Swidden and sustainable forestry: watershed-scale impacts on Hg dynamics S03	Reducing mercury bioaccumulation in reservoirs and other managed aquatic ecosystems S02	Understanding, Evaluating, Restoring and Managing Mercury?s Impacts to U.S. Natural Resources S01	Mercury emissions from coal combustion: sources, regulation and control S09	Why do ecosystems retain mercury? The role of redox transformations in controlling mercury mobility in terrestrial and aquatic environments S14
Plenary			Plenary Session “Global change and mercury cycling.” Elsie Sunderland, Harvard, USA (Time: 11:45 - 12:30)
AFTERNOON
Plenary	Plenary Session "The UNEP Convention - from treaty to action" Fernando Lugris, Chair INC UNEP, plus reps from free nations facing challenges (Time: 14:00 - 15:00)	Plenary Session “Advances in analytical technology - what is available and what is needed?” Milena Horvat, Josef Stefan Institute, Slovenia (Time: 14:00 - 15:00)
Pentland	Sources and emissions of mercury G04	Sources and emissions of mercury G05		Atmospheric mercury G07
Sidlaw	UNEP Global Mercury Partnership: Efforts to Reduce Mercury Pollution from Products and Processes S24	Environmental Biogeochemistry - field approaches G15		Mercury stable isotope biogeochemistry G03
Fintry	Mercury exposure and effects in fish and wildlife G21	Development of a Global Mercury Observation System S13		Defining natural and anthropogenic mercury impacts S18
Tinto	Mercury in marine ecosystems G24	Human health efffects inluding ASGM exposure S21		Health effects of mercury: the Seychelles Child Development Study perspective S22
Moorfoot	Fixing the world's biggest mercury problem: artesanal and small scale gold mining S19	Traceability of mercury measurements S08		Contaminated sites G12
Kilsyth	Human exposure and risk assessment methods G26	Mercury exposure and effects in fish and wildlife G22		Mercury bioaccumulation and trophic transfer G19
Ochil	Development of a Global Mercury Observation System S11	What do we know about marine methylmercury dynamics? S07		Environmental Biogeochemistry - field approaches G13