IGCP 429 - Organics in Major
Environmental Issues (1998-2002)
Short description: Organic matter and its
derivates are essential components of the natural environment, and increasing
awareness has developed recently on the varied behaviours and roles of organics
in environmental issues. The scientific aim of this project is to correlate
existing and new data from biospheric, geosperic and atmospheric studies in
order to evaluate the different roles of organic matter in the environment.
Direct evidence of natural processing of organic matter, and geochemical models
will be used to suggest how society may minimize the negative effects of mining
activities and improve remediation. Studies will include radioactive waste
repository sites, the formation of human carcinogens and the fate of organic
pollutants in surface and groundwaters.
Co-Leaders: Jan PASAVA (IGCP) (CZECH REPUBLIC) pasava@cgu.cz; Jan JENIK (MAB) (CZECH REPUBLIC)
jenik@natur.cuni.cz
Scientific
Secretary: Andrew Paul GIZE (UNITED
KINGDOM) andy_gize@email.msn.com
Regional
Vice-Leaders: Kagumbu WALEMBA
(AFRICA) 065KABUN@cosmos.wits.ac.za
; Delian FAN (ASIA) fandl@public.intercom.com.cn
; Bernd LOTTERMOSER (AUSTRALIA) blotterm@metz.une.edu.au
; Kirsti LOUKOLA-RUSKEENIEMI (EUROPE) kirsti.loukola-ruskeeniemi@gsf.fi
; Tom GIORDANO (NORTH AMERICA) tgiordan@NMSU.Edu
; Laecio CUNHA DE SOUZA (SOUTH AMERICA) laecio@geologia.ufrn.br
This
project is intended as a means of
bridging gaps especially between IGCP and MAB activities involving
geoscientists, biologists and health specialists, to encourage
cross-fertilisation of skills and ideas, and to co-ordinate research efforts in
order to be of great value to society as possible.
This
project should help society through
studies of organic-metal interactions and the weathering process of fossil
organic matter and associated sulphides in developing more sophisticated and
effective remediation policies, and treating acid mine drainage from active and
former mining areas, thus contributing to the prediction, minimization, and
treatment of the negative environmental impacts of mining activities on our
planet.
This
project should provide society with
very useful analogues to assess the performance of radionuclide containment at
man-made radioactive waste repository sites, thus making repository processes
more safe.
This
project should help society, through
compilation of environmental models, to develop safer exploitation of
industrial, widely occurring, black shale hosted mineral deposits.
This
project should help society to
identify organic atmospheric factors ranging from environmental to health
deterioration, thus to help to become aware of, and minimize, negative impacts
of human living.
This
project should help society to
distinguish various sources of traceable organic pollutants in aquifers, thus
to contribute to the evaluation of water pollution risk.
WG1: Organic matter - metals
interaction
(A.P. Gize, UK - e-mail: andy_gize@email.msn.com)
WG 2: Microbial leaching in
environmental clean up
(K. Bosecker, Germany -
e-mail: k.bosecker@bgr.de)
WG 3: Weathering of organic
matter
(B. Kribek, Czech
Republic- e-mail: kribek@cgu.cz)
WG 4: Acid mine drainage
(E. Puura, Estonia -
e-mail: epuura@math.ut.ee or erx@ket.kth.se)
WG 5: Environmental models of
black shale hosted mineral deposits
(W. Mayer, Poland -
e-mail: wmayer@geol.agh.edu.pl)
WG 6: Organic atmospheric
particulates
(K. Hall, U.K. - e-mail: Keith_Hall_GC2@compuserve.com)
WG 7: Organic matter in
nuclear waste issues
(D. Mossman, Canada -
e-mail: dmossman@mailserv.mta.ca)
WG 8: Organics in aquifers
and water systems
(L. de Souza laecio@geologia.ufrn.br and R. Melo,
Brazil, J. Spangenberg, Switzerland Jorge.Spangenberg@imp.unil.ch)
Finally, a schedule of annual
major international meetings was arranged for the duration of the IGCP 429:
1998 - Inaugural Meeting,
Prague, Czech Republic (September 10-13) (done)
1999 - Annual International
Meeting (session 2 “Organics in the formation and remediation of mineral
deposits”, within the 5th SGA-IAGOD Meeting), London, U.K (August 25-28, 1999)
- confirmed more info at http://www.immr.tu-clausthal.de/sga.html
2000 - Annual International Meeting (within the 31st IGC ), Symposium C-7 “Organics in Major Environmental Issues” Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (August 6-17, 2000)
2001 - Annual International
Meeting (within the 6th SGA Meeting), Cracow, Poland (August 26-29, 2001)
2002 - Final Meeting within
the 11th IAGOD Symposium and Geocongress 2002 Meeting in Windhoek,
Namibia (July 22-27, 2002) - IGCP 429 co-sponsores open session O2
“Environmental impacts of the exploitation of mineral deposits and energy
resources” - more info at http://www.geoconference2002.com
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Proceedings
from the Inaugural IGCP 429 Meeting (Sept 10-13,
1998, Prague, Czech Republic) – typescript materials in pdf format |
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