INVITED LECTURES

Jerome O. Nriagu  Department of Earth Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, USA
Lecture topic: Arsenic poisoning through the ages
   
John McArthur  Department of Earth Sciences, UCL, U.K.
Lecture topic: Sedimentological, climatic, and tectonic, controls on arsenic pollution of groundwater
William R. Cullen  Department of Chemistry, UBC, Canada 
Lecture topic: Arsenic in Medicine: Ancient and Modern.
Ronald Oremland  US Geological Survey, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A. 
Lecture topic: Geomicrobiology of Arsenic in Extreme Environments
Laurent Charlet Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Grenoble-I, France
Lecture topic: Fe(II)-Fe(III)-bearing phases as a mineralogical control on arsenic release in Southeast Asian aquifers
   
Marie Vahter  Division of Metals & Health, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Lecture topic: Health effects of early-life exposure to arsenic
Chien-Jen Chen  Genomic Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan 
Lecture topic: Health hazards of arsenic in drinking water
Chen-Wuing Liu  Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, NTU, Taiwan 
Lecture topic: Arsenic speciation in fish and shellfish in the blackfoot disease area
D. Kirk Nordstrom  US Geological Survey, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.
Lecture topic: Geothermal Arsenic
Dave Polya  School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, The University of Manchester, U.K. 
Lecture topic: Probabilistic risk assessment of geogenic groundwater-arsenic attributable health risks—framework and key uncertainties
Zhaohui Li  Geology Department and Chemistry Department, University of Wisconsin - Parkside , U.S.A. 
Lecture topic: Characterization on arsenic sorption and mobility of the sediments of Chia-Nan plain, where blackfoot disease occurred
Richard H. Loeppert  Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University, U.S.A. 
Lecture topic: Arsenic in rice -- the challenges of agricultural sustainability and food security
Yong Guan Zhu  Chinese Academy of Sciences, Research Centre for Eco-environmental Sciences, China 
Lecture topic: Managing arsenic in paddy soils to reduce human exposure to arsenic in rice
Markus Grafe 
Lecture topic: The role of common metal contaminants on arsenic speciation in soils and common soil minerals
Yan Zheng  Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, U.S.A.
Lecture topic: Arsenic: Who, What, When, Where, Why and How?
Allan Smith  University of California, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A. 
Lecture topic: The extraordinary impact of early life exposure to arsenic in drinking water on mortality from several cancer and non-cancer causes of death in young adults
Chi-Ling Chen  Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 
Lecture topic: Ingested arsenic and risk of urinary and lung cancer in Taiwan
Hung-Yi Chiou  School of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan
Lecture topic: Arsenic and Cardiovascular diseases
Tsair-Fuh Lin  Department of Environmental Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Lecture topic: Arsenic removal in water treatment processes: A case study in Taiwan
Ming-Kuang Wang  Department of Agricultural Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Lecture topic: Arsenic and Lead (Beudantite) Contaminated the Agricultural Rice Soils in the Guandu Plain, Northern Taiwan
How-Ran Guo  Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Medical College, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Lecture topic: Dose-response relationship between arsenic in drinking and lung cancer mortality in Taiwan
Shu-Li Wang  National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan
Lecture topic: Total arsenic and arsenic speciation in human biospecimens
   
Arun B. Mukherjee D.Sc., Senior Research Scientist, Environmental Sciences, Department of Biological and
Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
Lecture topic: Occurrences of arsenic and fluoride in groundwater – A global overview