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| No |
Title of Special Session |
Lead/Chairs |
Lead organisation |
| S01. |
Managing Mercury's Impacts to Natural Resources |
Barash M |
US Dept of the Interior |
| S01.2 |
Novel approaches to mercury control |
Barash M |
US Dept of the Interior |
| S02. |
Reducing mercury bioaccumulation in reservoirs and other managed aquatic ecosystems |
Beutel M, Austin C M |
Washington State University |
| S03. |
Clear cutting, swidden and sustainable forestry: watershed-scale impacts on mercury dynamics |
Bishop K, Lucotte M, Verta M |
Uppsala University |
| S04. |
Mercury in the oil and gas processing industry |
Corns W, Kanazirev V |
PS Analytical |
| S05. |
Mercury contamination in rice agriculture: a growing global threat to human and wildlife health? |
Creswell J, Windham-Myers L, Qiu G |
Brooks Rand |
| S06. |
Organisms, pathways and regulations behind biological methylmercury production from the cell to the ecosystem |
Guyoneaud R, Elias D, Amouroux D, Gilmour C |
EEM-UMRS |
| S07. |
What do we know about marine methylmercury dynamics? |
Heimburger L-E, Lamborg C H |
GET-OMP |
| S08. |
Traceability of mercury measurements |
Horvat M, Brown R, Quetel C, Ent H |
Jožef Stefan Institute |
| S09. |
Mercury emissions from coal combustion: sources, regulation and control |
Kolker A, Senior C, Sjostrom S |
USGS |
| S10. |
Mercury activities in China and the lessons that can be shared |
Pan W-P, Chai F, Feng X, Cao Y |
Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences |
| S11. |
Development of a Global Mercury Observation System toward the preparation of the global mercury treaty (GMOS) 1 |
Pirrone N, Evers D, Staffan Åkerblom |
CNR, Biodiversity Research Institute |
| S12. |
Development of a Global Mercury Observation System toward the preparation of the global mercury treaty (GMOS) 2 |
Pirrone N, Evers D, Staffan Åkerblom |
CNR, Biodiversity Research Institute |
| S13. |
Development of a Global Mercury Observation System toward the preparation of the global mercury treaty (GMOS) 3 |
Pirrone N, Evers D, Staffan Åkerblom |
CNR, Biodiversity Research Institute |
| S14. |
Why do ecosystems retain mercury? The role of redox transformations in controlling mercury mobility in terrestrial and aquatic environments |
Poulain A, Daniel Obrist, O'Driscoll N, Canario J |
University of Ottawa |
| S15. |
Mercury in marine mammals and human health risk |
Sakamoto M, Chan HM |
NIMD |
| S16. |
The state of mercury science and how it informs policy - the Canadian experience |
Steffen A, Leech T |
Environment Canada, and Health Canada |
| S17. |
Defining "natural" and "anthropogenic" mercury impacts 1 |
Sunderland E M, Amos H M |
Harvard University |
| S18. |
Defining "natural" and "anthropogenic" mercury impacts 2 |
Sunderland E M, Amos H M |
Harvard University |
| S19. |
Fixing the world's biggest mercury problem: artesanal and small scale gold mining 1 |
Telmer K, Viega M |
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| S20. |
Fixing the world's biggest mercury problem: artesanal and small scale gold mining 2 |
Telmer K, Viega M |
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| S21. |
Human health efffects inluding ASGM exposure |
Paleah Black Moher |
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| S22. |
Health effects of mercury: the Seychelles Child Development Study perspective |
Watson G, Wijngaarden E |
University of Rochester |
| S23. |
Health effects of mercury: the Child Cohort Studies in the Faroe Islands |
Weihe P |
Faroese Hospital system, Faroe Islands |
| S24. |
Elemental mercury stockpile stewardship: research, export ban and novel disposal paths |
Hermes W |
ORNL |
| S25. |
UNEP Global Mercury Partnership: Efforts to Reduce Mercury Pollution from Products and Processes |
Philip Piper D, Narvaez D |
UNEP |
