PROGRAMME

Sunday, June 27^th 2004

Registration

Galus Hall (GD)

15:00		Registration
19:00		Opening ceremony
20:00		Welcome reception

Monday, June 28^th 2004

Setting the Stage

Linhart Hall (LD)

8:30	Milena Horvat	Opening statement: Managing mercury - integration of science, technology, policy and socio-economics
9:00	Aase Tuxen, UNEP, Geneva	UNEP's Global Mercury Assessment
9:30	Andrew Hudson, GEF7UNIDO/UNDP	GEF/UNDP/UNDP Global Mercury Project
10:00	Neil Emmott, European Union	European mercury strategy
10:30		Coffee break

Mercury mining impact

Linhart Hall (LD)

11:00	Kobal, Alfred	Impact of occupational elemental Mercury exposure on the health of miners in the Idrija Mercury Mine	L-01
11:30	Ženko, Bernard	Can occupational exposure to elementary mercury increase the risk of suicide	L-02
12:00	Krsnik, Mladen	Pineal hormone melatonin in blood and urine in ex miners of Idrija Mercury Mine	L-03
12:30	Stegnar, Peter	Hypothetical estimation of 'Non-Mercury-Associated Selenium' in Human Autopsy Tissues of Mercury Exposed Idrija Residents and Mercury Mine Workers	L-04
13:00		Lunch

Integrated strategies for reducing mercury impacts

Linhart Hall (LD)

15:00	Bhushan, Chandra	Mercury Pollution from Indian Chlor-alkali Industry – Inventorisation and Impact Assessment	L-05
15:30	Wiener, James	Mercury Strategy for the San Francisco Bay-Delta Ecosystem: A Unifying Framework for Science, Adaptive Management, and Ecological Restoration	L-06
16:00	Lucotte, Marc	Human exposure to mercury as a consequence of landscape management and socio-economical behaviors. Part I: The Brazilian Amazon case study	L-07
16:30		Coffee break

Poster Session

Grand Reception Hall (VSD)

17:00 - 19:00	Akagi, Hirokatsu	Health and Environmental impact of Mercury in a Mining Community in Western mindanao, Philippines	P-01
	Krsnik, Mladen	Potential kidney effects in ex-miners of the Idrija mercury mine	P-02
	Drasch, Gustav	Criteria for the Diagnosis of a Chronic Mercury Intoxication	P-03
	Fikfak, Dodic	Long-term effects of mercury on subclinical kidney function	P-04
20:00		Galla dinner

Tuesday, June 29^th 2004

Anthropogenic and natural Emmissions

Linhart Hall (LD)

8:30	Pacyna, Jozef M.	Global Anthropogenic sources and Emissions of Mercury in 2000	L-08
9:00	Pyle, David	Volcanic Emissions of Mercury to the Atmosphere: uncertainties and outstanding issues	L-09
9:30	Friedli, Hans	Contribution from Biomass burning to global Mercury budgets	L-10
10:00	Berg, Torunn	Contribution of mercury from national antropogenic emissions, natural sources and atmospheric long range transport in Norway	L-11
10:30		Coffee break

Speciations

Linhart Hall (LD)

11:00	Adams, Freddy	Speciation Analysis of Mercury in the Polar Environment by multi-capillary Gas Chromatography-Inductively coupled Plasma Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry	L-12
11:30	Klaue, Bjoern	Investigation of Mercury isotopis mass fractionation as a novel tracer for sources and pathways of Mercury in the environmetn	L-13
12:00	Miller, Carrie	The Use of Octanol Water Partitioning to Measure Hg Speciation in Natural Samples	L-14
12:30	Hintelmann, Holger	Determination of highly precise mercury isotope ratios by using the multi-collector inductively coulped plasma mass spectrometry	L-15
13:00	Landing, William	Assessment of Mercury (II) Species Bioavailability using a Bioluminescent Bacterial Biosensor	L-16
13:30	Shapira, Leora	Electrochemical Detection of Sub-ppb Levels of Ionic Mercury by Chemically Modified Electrodes	L-17
14:00		Closing ceremony