Conference on Radioactivity in the Environment

[keith.mckay@ps.glasgow.gov.uk (Keith McKay)]

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     Preliminary announcement and call for papers. 
     International Conference on Radioactivity in the Environment
     2-5 September 2002. The International Conference Centre, Principality 
     of Monaco.
     
     Conference Chair:
     M.S. Baxter
     (Chief Editor, JER)
     Co-Chairs:
     T.G. Hinton
     (USA; Assoc. Editor, JER)
     G. Hunter
     (Conference Co-ordinator, EC)
     Y. Ohmomo
     (Japan, Assoc. Editor, JER)
     H.D. Livingston (IAEA)
     P. Strand (IUR)
     G. Voigt
     (Germany, Assoc. Editor, JER)
     
     
     The Journal of Environmental Radioactivity (JER), in association with 
     the International Union of Radioecology (IUR) and Elsevier Science 
     Ltd, and in co-operation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, 
     is pleased to announce a major international conference on 
     Radioactivity in the Environment. The conference is expected to be the 
     most significant of its kind ever held. It is being sponsored by the 
     IUR and additional sponsorship currently under discussion will be 
     acknowledged in subsequent announcements.
     
     Like JER itself, the conference will celebrate the science of all 
     aspects of the study of environmental radioactivity, from its use to 
     trace and time natural processes to its radiological assessment and 
     remediation.
     
     On the one hand, whole fields of science have depended, and indeed 
     still depend, on the unique kinetics and sensitivity of detection of 
     radioactive decay for understanding of the time-scales and mechanisms 
     of processes. On the other, radioactive contamination from a range of 
     man's activities has for a century occupied the attention of the 
     scientific community, which has extensively studied its environmental 
     pathways and health effects, without always communicating effectively 
     with society.
     
     This conference, besides taking a broad scientific view of its field, 
     will also feature focused special sessions on current and future "hot 
     topics". The conference will mark 20 years of the Journal of 
     Environmental Radioactivity and will be held in Monaco where it began. 
     The scientific committee for the conference is the international 
     Editorial Board of JER.
     
     The possible "hot topics" thus far identified for special emphasis 
     include:
      Remediation & restoration of contaminated ecosystems.
      Health effects of environmental radioactivity for flora and fauna.
      Radionuclides as environmental tracers
      Environmental radioactivity and society
      Speciation of radionuclides.
      Radioactivity in extreme environments: subtropical and tropical 
     environments, forest ecosystems, the Arctic, and S-E Asia.
      Microbiological cycling of radionuclides.
      Radioactive aerosols.
      Modelling environmental transport of radionuclides.
      Modelling and risk assessment.
      Technologically enhanced radioactivity from non-nuclear industries.
     Advanced analytical methods and their latest applications to the earth 
     &
     environmental sciences.
     
     However, the agenda will primarily be set by the conference 
     participants and your interest and involvement are urgently requested.
     
     Contributions are invited for oral and poster presentation on the 
     themes of the conference. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 
     16 November2001. For further details and to express your initial 
     interest, please contact the Conference Secretariat:
     Gill Heaton
     Environmental Radioactivity
     Conference Secretariat
     Hillside Cottages
     Wheatley Road
     Islip, Oxford, OX5 2TF, UK.
     Tel: +44 1865 373625
     Fax: +44 1865 375855
     Email:
     jer@heaton-connexion.co.uk
     Or visit the conference website: www.elsevier.nl/locate/jer2002
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