Registration, reception and all oral and poster presentations will take place in the “Aristotle” Conference Centre, Panepistimiopolis Campus, University of Athens.
(see map on Website for location: http://conferences.geol.uoa.gr/segh2008/Travel&Maps.html )
MONDAY 31 MARCH |
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08.00 - 09.00 |
Registration |
09.00 - 09.10 |
Welcome address Ioannis Karakostas
Vice Rector University of Athens |
09.10 - 09.20 |
Welcome address Konstantinos Makropoulos
Dean of the School of Sciences, University of Athens |
09.20 - 09.30 |
Welcome address Emmanuel Baltatzis,
President of the Faculty of Geology and
Geoenvironment University of Athens |
09.30 - 09.40 |
Welcome address Niki Goulandri
Honorary Chair of SEGH 2008 |
09.40 - 10.00 |
Conference Opening Lecture Andreas Georgakopoulos
IGME Director General
Chairman of SEGH 2008 |
Session 1: Health Hazards Assessment
Chairs: Alex Stewart, Joy Carter |
Keynote addresses
10.00 - 11.00 |
Polyxeni Nicolopoulou - Stamati
(Univ. of Athens) |
Environment and health: Focusing on endocrine disruption |
David Gee (EEA) |
Late onset environmental stressors: the implications for early prevention |
11.00 - 11.40 |
Refreshments & Poster viewing |
11.40 - 12.00 |
Iain McLellan* |
Pentachlorophenol in Quercus suber forests: a pilot study in Tunisia (a NATO science for peace project) |
12.00 - 12.20 |
Jacqueline Thomas* |
Field measurements of in situ soil contaminant heterogeneity to create more realistic pot trials for the estimation of plant uptake |
12.20 - 12.40 |
Katy Boon |
The role of on-site measurement in the assessment of hazard, exposure and risk |
12.40 - 13.00 |
Graham Urquhart |
The Chemical Hazards and Poisons Division (CHAPD) and Environment Agency horizon scanning collaboration |
13.00 - 14.30 |
Lunch |
Session 2: Air pollution and health
Chairs: Andreas Georgakopoulos, Polyxeni Nicolopoulou - Stamati |
Keynote addresses 14.30 - 15.30 |
Klea Katsouyanni (Univ. of Athens) |
Effects of ambient particles on health |
Luc Hens
(VUB Belgium) |
Health impact assessment of motorized mobility |
15.30 - 15.50 |
Philipp Preiss* |
Extended impact pathway approach - new generalised results for use in life cycle impact assessment, integrated projects and optimisation models |
15.50 - 16.10 |
George Kallos |
Lung dose from mineral Saharan dust to Greek Residents |
16.10 - 16.30 |
Andreas Iordanidis |
Provenance study of PM10 and PM2.5 from an urban site of northern Greece |
16.30 - 17.00 |
Refreshments & Poster viewing |
Session 3: Pollution pathways of potentially toxic elements
Chairs: Xiang-dong Li, Ariadne Argyraki |
17.00 - 17.20 |
Sergio Calabrese* |
Environmental impact of Mt. Etna's volcanic emissions: trace metal bulk-deposition |
17.20 - 17.40 |
Simon Cuthbert |
Distribution and mobility of As and Sb in stream water, sediment and suspended matter in a former mining area at Glendinning, Southern Scotland |
17.40 - 18.00 |
Mehri Aliasgharpour |
Impact of occupational lead exposure on industrial workers health condition; Tehran- Iran |
18.00 - 18.20 |
Future Conferences and AGM |
Brief presentations of ISEG 2009, SEGH 2010 and
SEGH AGM |
19:00 |
Bus Collection |
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19.30 |
Conference Dinner at "Kostis Palamas" Historical Building (centre of Athens) |
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TUESDAY 1 APRIL |
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08.00 - 09.00 |
Registration & Poster viewing |
Session 3: Mineral pollutants and health
Chairs: Panayiotis Behrakis, Malcolm Brown |
Keynote address
09.00 - 09.30 |
Anthony J. Newman Taylor (Imperial College London) |
Mineral dusts and disease |
09.30 - 09.50 |
Rachel Smith |
The public health significance of asbestos exposures from large scale fires |
09.50 - 10.10 |
Hirokazu Fujimaki |
Protection against malignant mesothelioma by consolidation of asbestos- containing outdated construction materials using straight silicone resin |
10.10 -10.30 |
George Economou |
Raman microspectroscopy: a powerful tool for studing asbestos in building materials |
10.30 - 11.00 |
Refreshments & Poster viewing |
Session 4: Soil pollution and geochemical baselines
Chairs: Mike Ramsey, Akis Kelepertsis |
11.00 - 11.20 |
Ariadne Argyraki |
Garden soil and house dust as exposure media for lead uptake in the mining village of Stratoni, North Greece |
11.20 - 11.30 |
Chaosheng Zhang |
Use of local Moran's I and GIS to identify pollution hotspots of Pb in urban soils of Galway, Ireland |
11.30 - 11.50 |
Alex Stewart |
Golf Courses - Hazards to health? |
11.50 - 12.10 |
Louise Ander |
Baseline geochemical characteristics of urban areas - A record of environmental change in the English Midlands |
12.10 - 12.30 |
Georgios Papastergios* |
Arsenic baseline concentrations in surface soils of the Kavala area, Northern Greece |
Keynote Address
12.30 - 13.00 |
Olle Selinus (Geological Survey of Sweden) |
Medical geology: an international opportunity for the future |
13.00 - 14.30 |
Lunch |
Session 5: Water pollution and health
Chairs: Chaosheng Zhang, Olle Selinus |
14.30 - 14.50 |
Parvinder Sethi |
Hidden threat: Groundwater pollution and health risks associated with Middle Devonian, organic-carbon-rich, black shales in Southern Virginia, USA |
14.50 - 15.10 |
Roman Tandlich |
Treatment for reuse of grey water and the elimination of associated health risks |
15.10 - 15.30 |
Anestis Filippidis |
Purification of urban wastewaters, production of odourless zeo-sewage sludge and food quality improvement, using Hellenic natural zeolite |
15.30 - 15.50 |
Anna Grigoriadou* |
Molecular indicators for pollution source identifications in marine and terrestrial water of the industrial area of Kavala city, North Greece |
15.50 - 16.10 |
Giuma Sasi |
Evaluation of metal concentrations in groundwater nearby Soma coal -fired power plant, Turkey |
16.10 - 16.30 |
Refreshments & poster viewing |
Session 6: Marine pollution and health
Chairs: Fani Sakellariadou, Andrew Hursthouse |
16.30 - 16.50 |
Xiang-dong Li |
The spacial and temporal distribution of heavy metals in sediments of Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong |
16.50 - 17.10 |
Samira Korfali |
Chemical profile of Lebanon's potential contaminated coastal water |
17.10 - 17.30 |
Catherine Tsangaris |
Oxidative stress biomarkers in grey mullet (Mugil cephalus) from polluted Greek coastal waters |
17.30 - 17.50 |
Bahram Habibnia |
Biomarker oil-oil correlation of Nargesi oilfield and oil seeps in Dalaki region, South Iran |
17.50 - 18.10 |
Alecos Demetriades |
Lavreotiki-Lavrion field trip introduction |
18.10 - 18.30 |
Close conference |
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Free evening
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* Student presentation |
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WEDNESDAY 2 APRIL |
Field trip to Lavreotiki-Lavrion (55 km SE of Athens) |
