Scientific programme

Day 0: 23. April, Sunday (Hotel SOREA)

18.30 Invitation meeting

Day 1: 24. April, Monday (Hotel SOREA)
(Chairmen: Malcolm J. Brown & Vladimír Bencko)

9.00 – 12.30 Oral presentations

9.00 – 9.10 Opening address
Stanislav Rapant & Malcolm J.Brown

9.10 – 9.35 Ecological and human health risk aspects of burning arsenic rich coal
Vladimír Bencko, Jiří Rameš, Eleonora Fabiánová, Jiří Pešek, Ivana Sýkorová

9.35 – 10.00 Geochemical data: what else is needed to protect health?
Alex G. Stewart

10.00 – 10.25 Environmental and health risk assessment maps: Application of geochemical survey data
Stanislav Rapant

10.25 – 10.50 Domestic water supplies: Quality due to external and internal factors
Samira Ibrahim Korfali, Mey Jurdi

10.50 – 11.15 Coffee break

11.15 – 11.40 Using multivariate analyses and GIS techniques to study urban soil pollution in Galway, Ireland
Chaosheng Zhang

11.40 – 12.05 Contamination of Kyjov catchment by arsenic and its possible negative impact on biota
Jozef Kordík, Ľubomír Jurkovič, Igor Slaninka, Ondrej Durža, Jana Pastierová, Agáta Fargašová, Juraj Majzlan

12.05 – 12.30 A comparison of urban soil quality variability between Glasgow, UK and Aveiro, Portugal
Andrew Hursthouse, Sonia Rodrigues, Graham Urquhart, Iain Hossack, M Eduarda Pereira, Armando C. Duarte, Christine Davidson, Peter Tucker, Douglas Roberston

12.30 – 12.55 Arsenic in garden soils and locally grown vegetables in Horna Nitra region: bioavailability and associated health risk
Katarína Krčmová, Stanislav Rapant

12.55 – 14.30 Lunch (Hotel SOREA)

14.30 Free program

Day 2: 25. April, Tuesday: Field excursion

9.00 Departure from hotel SOREA
16.00 Arrival
Gabcikovo dam – Devin castle (including lunch)

18.30 Dinner (Restaurant KOLIBA)

Day 3: 26. April, Wednesday (Geological Survey of Slovak Republic)
Bus departure from hotel SOREA to GS SR – 8.45

(Chairmen: Chaosheng Zhang & Stanislav Rapant)

9.00 – 12.30 Oral and poster presentations

Oral presentations:

9.30 – 9.40 Opening prologue

Michal Kaličiak
Director of Geological Survey of Slovak Republic

9.40 – 10.05 Spatial data analyses in national soils database of Ireland
Chaosheng Zhang, Deirdre Fay, Owen T. Carton, David McGrath

10.05 – 10.30 Risk assessment for cobalt and secondary poisoning in the terrestrial food chain
Andrew Hursthouse, Judit Gál, Paul Tatner, Fran Stewart, Ryan Welton

10.30 – 10.55 Environmental impacts and remediation proposal of the Halňa landfill in Krompachy, Slovakia
Tomáš Lánczos, Anne Mette von Benzon, Henrik T. Holck, Gerald Hyde, Eva Berdisová

10.55 – 11.20 Sequence analyses of the Smolník Creek stream sediments contaminated by ACID MINE Drainage from abandoned mine (Western Carpathians, Slovakia)
Otilia Lintnerová, Peter Šottník

11.20 – 11.40 Coffee break

11.40 – 12.05 Developing an on-site electrokinetic remediation tool for the decontamination of nuclear site soils

Andy B. Cundy, L. Hopkinson, I.W. Croudace, P.E. Warwick, S. Dooley, S. Amos, D. Faulkner

12.05 – 12.30 Spatial relations - indoor radon, geochemical anomalies and terrestrial radiation - examples from Israel
Moshe Shirav – Schwartz

12.30 – 12.55 Does sampling really limit the interpretation of contaminated land?
Michael H. Ramsey, Paul Taylor, Katy Boon

13.00 – 14.30 Lunch

14.30 – 14.55 Uncertainty of measurements, or the mean: which is best for the reliable classification of contaminated land?
Katy A. Boon, Michael H. Ramsey, Joe Kelly

14.55 – 15.20 Uncertainty in sampling animal feeding stuff: a study of minerals in the feed of laying hens
Ilaria M. Palestra, Michael H. Ramsey, Andrew Damant, Roger Wood

15.20 – 15.45 Heavy metals contamination of soils and plants from urban park in Pernik (Bulgaria)
Maria Sokolovska, Maria Stoyanova

15.45 – 16.10 Status of forest ecosystems in proximity of urbanized region with respect to recreation
Miglena Zhiyanski, Nadezda Stoyanova

16.10 – 16.35 Potential environmental risk from contaminated soils in Slovakia
Ján Čurlík

16.35 – 17.00 Comparison of critical content of Pb with present content in some high mountainous soils in Slovakia
Róbert Polc

Poster presentations (Discussed with authors during coffee break):

Application of medical geochemistry research in the Region of Žiarska kotlina basin (Central Slovakia)
Miloslav Khun, Ľubomír Jurkovič, Jana Urminská

Preventative and remediation strategies for continuous elimination of poly-chlorinated phenols from forest soils and ground waters
Iain S McLellan, Mariana Carvalho, Isabel Martins, Maria V San Romão, Cristina Silva Pereira, Calum Morrison, Paul Tatner, Andrew S. Hursthouse

Retention and release of weak acid herbicide MCPA by soils
Edgar Hiller, Miloslav Khun, Lenka Zemanová, Mikuláš Bartaľ, Pavol Kútnik

17.00 Closing ceremony and post-conference cup of wine


!!!REGISTRATION:
23. April, Sunday, 18.00 – 18.30
24. April, Monday, 8.30 – 9.00

Note: Every participant will have 20 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for discussion.