Tuesday, May 18, 2010

08:00-09:00

Registration (Location: Conference Hall Lobby)

09:00-09:30

OPENING OF CONGRESS AND OPENING ADDRESSES
(Location: Cheng-Kung Hall)

09:00-09:05

Opening of Congress: (Cheng-Kung Hall)
Welcome Address by International Organizers:
Prof. Dr. Jochen Bundschuh and Prof. Dr. Prosun Bhattacharya

09:05-09:10

Welcome Address by Local Chief Organizer: Prof. Dr. Jiin-Shuh Jean

09:10-09:13

Opening Address: Prof. Dr. Ming-Chao Lai, President, NCKU, Taiwan

09:13-09:16

Opening Address: Vice Minister of National Science Council

09:16-09:19

Opening Address: Director, National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center

09:19-09:30

Opening Address: Guest

09:30-10:00

Group Photo and Coffee Break

10:00-10:30

Plenary Keynote Lecture 1 (Cheng-Kung Hall): Arsenic poisoning through the ages
J.O. Nriagu

10:30-12:35

ORAL SESSION 1A--GEOGENIC AND ANTHOPOGENIC SOURCES OF ARSENIC (I)
Location: Conference Hall Lecture Room 1
Session Chairs: William R. Cullen and Jiin-Shuh Jean

10:30-10:50

Invited Lecture A1: Occurrences of arsenic and fluoride in groundwater – A global overview
A.B. Mukherjee, P. Bhattacharya, G. Jacks & J. Bundschuh

10:50-11:05

Arsenic in bedrock aquifers in the greater Augusta area, Maine, USA
Q. Yang, H.-B. Jung, C. Culbertson, M. Nielson, C. Schalk, C. Johnson, R. Marvinney, M. Loiselle, D. Locke, H. Cheek, H. Thibodeau, B. O’Shea, M. Stute & Y. Zheng

11:05-11:20

High arsenic levels in water resources resulting from alteration zones: A case study from Biga Peninsula, Turkey
A. Baba

11:20-11:35

Groundwater arsenic in the Holocene Brahmaputra floodplains of Assam, Northeastern India: distribution and trends of hydrogeochemical variations
C. Mahanta, P. Bhattacharya, R. Thunvik, G. Jacks, O. Sracek, R.T. Nickson, G. Enmark, D. Norborg & R. Herbert

11:35-11:50

Hydrogeochemistry of the alluvial aquifers of the central Gangetic Plain in India: constraints on source and mobility of arsenic
AL. Ramanathan, P. Tripathi, R. Ranjan, M. Kumar, P. Bhattacharya, K. Elfverson, R. Thunvik, G. Jacks, O. Sracek, J. Bundschuh & M. Tsujimura

11:50-12:05

Analysis of spatial variability of arsenic concentration in spring waters in Central Iberian Zone (Province of Ávila, Spain) using principal component analysis and geostatistical tools
E. Giménez-Forcada, C. Guardiola-Albert & I. Iribarren-Campaña

12:05-12:20

Temporal variation of groundwater arsenic in shallow groundwater from the Hetao Basin, Inner Mongolia
H. Guo, B. Zhang, X. Tang, Y. Li, S. Yang & D. Chen

12:20-12:35

Arsenic contamination in groundwater of Bangladesh
H.M. Anawar, J. Akai & M. Mihaljevič

12:35-13:30

Lunch Break (Conference Hall Multifunction Room)

13:30-14:30

POSTER SESSION A (NCKU Activity Center Gallery)

14:30-16:35

ORAL SESSION 2A--GEOGENIC AND ANTHOPOGENIC SOURCES OF ARSENIC (II)
Location: Conference Hall Lecture Room 1
Session Chairs: Prosun Bhattacharya and Ondra Sracek

14:30-14:50

Invited Lecture A2: Geothermal arsenic
D.K. Nordstrom

14:50-15:05

Arsenic in groundwater in northern Sweden
M. Svensson, M. von Brömssen, P. Bhattacharya & G. Jacks

15:05-15:20

Groundwater contamination by arsenic in Datong Basin, China
A. Ding, L. Cheng, S. Yang, H. Zhang, D. Li, J. Zhou & J. Wang

15:20-15:35

Redox zoning in arsenic-rich groundwater, West Bengal, India
A. Biswas, D. Chatterjee, S. Majumder, Z. Berner & H. Neidhardt

15:35-15:50

Arsenic mobilization in shallow alluvial aquifers of Chapai-Nawabganj District, Northwestern Bangladesh
A.H.M.S. Reza, J.-S. Jean, H.-J. Yang, C.-C. Liu, S.-D. Luo, M.-K. Lee & J.-F. Lee

15:50-16:05

Influences of hydrological variables on the As variation in shallow groundwater of southwestern Taiwan
S.-W. Wang, Y.-H. Kao, C.-W. Liu, Y.-M. Kuo & C.-S. Jang

16:05-16:20

Delineating areas of groundwater arsenic contamination from surface parameters and geology at depth
M. Berg, M. Amini, S.J. Hug, C.A. Johnson & L. Winkel

16:20-16:35

Effect of traditional jute producing techniques in mobilization of arsenic in the Bengal Delta
S.H. Farooq, D. Chandrasekharam, Z. Berner, S. Norra & D. Stüben

16:35-16:50

Coffee Break (Conference Hall Concourse)

16:50-17:40

PANEL DISCUSSION A (Conference Hall Lecture Room 1)

17:40-19:30

Welcome Reception (Conference Hall Concourse)

19:30-21:30

Orchestra and Chorus Performance (Cheng-Shing Hall)

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

08:00-08:30

Plenary Keynote Lecture 2 (Cheng-Kung Hall): Health hazards of arsenic in drinking water
C.-J. Chen

08:30-10:20

ORAL SESSION 3A—ARSENIC SPECIATION AND ARSENIC RELEASE INTO GROUNDWATER: WATER ROCK INTERACTION PROCEESES (I)
Location: Conference Hall Lecture Room 1
Session Chairs: Yan Zheng and Ming-Kuang Wang

08:30-08:50

Invited Lecture A3: The role of common metal contaminants on arsenic speciation in soils and on common soil minerals
M. Gräfe, E. Smith, D.A. Beattie & D.L. Sparks

08:50-09:05

Arsenic cycling, thioarsenates and orpiment precipitation at a shallow sea hydrothermal system, Milos Island, Greece
R.E. Price, B. Planer-Friedrich, I. Savov & T. Pichler

09:05-09:20

Speciation of arsenic in water
X.G. Meng, Z.H. Xu, J.M. Hao & M.J. Han

09:20-09:35

Sediment geochemistry and arsenic mobilization in shallow aquifers of western Hetao Basin, Inner Mongolia
Y. Deng, Y. Wang, T. Ma, Y. Wu & X. He

09:35-09:50

Temporal and spatial variations of geogenic arsenic in an aquifer in West Bengal, India
H. Neidhardt & Z. Berner, A. Biswas, D. Chatterjee, S. Majumder & D. Freikowski

09:50-10:05

Impact of paleo-redox processes on arsenic distribution and mobility in sediments
A. Banning & T.R. Rüde

10:05-10:20

Delimiting the shallow aquifer characteristics using vertical electric soundings (VES) and hydrochemical variability in a region with high arsenic groundwater in southeastern Bangladesh
M. Hossain, M.Mainul Islam, S.M.A. Rashid, M.Moklesur Rahman, M. Rahman, Sarmin Sultana, K.M. Ahmed, M.Aziz Hasan, P. Bhattacharya, G. Jacks, R. Thunvik & M. von Brömssen

10:20-10:40

Coffee Break (Conference Hall Concourse)

10:40-12:30

ORAL SESSION 4A—ARSENIC SPECIATION AND ARSENIC RELEASE INTO GROUNDWATER: WATER ROCK INTERACTION PROCEESES (II)
Location: Conference Hall Lecture Room 1
Session Chairs: A.B. Mukherjee and Chen-Wuing Liu

10:40-11:00

Invited Lecture A4: Flushing of arsenic from aquifer: Implications for safe drinking water options in high arsenic occurrence areas
Y. Zheng

11:30-11:45

Fe(II)-Fe(III)-bearing phases as a mineralogical control on arsenic release in Southeast Asian aquifers
A. Burnol & L. Charlet

11:00-11:15

Geochemical and mineralogical contrasts between low and very high arsenic affected areas in Murshidabad district, West Bengal, India
S. Datta, A. Neal, K. Johannesson, T.J. Haug, D. Sarkar, P. Sur, B. Purkait

12:15-12:30

Geochemistry of arsenic in Bengal Delta Plain (West Bengal, India)
D. Chatterjee, A. Biswas, S. Bhowmick, D. Halder, R. Hazra, S. Majumder, A. Mukherjee-Goswami, D. Saha, B. Nath & P. Bhattacharya

11:00-11:15

Arsenic contamination and mobility in forest soils under impact of copper smelter in SW Poland
A. Medyńska

11:45-12:00

Transformation, sorption, and transport of arsenic species in geological media
Q.H. Hu, G.X. Sun, X.B. Gao, R. Zuo & J.S. Wang

12:00-12:15

Arsenic adsorption and desorption processes downstream of a Fijian gold mine
V. Matanitobua, J. Ng, B. Chiswell, H. Harris, W. Aalbersberg & B. Noller

12:30-13:30

Lunch Break (Conference Hall Multifunction Room)

13:30-14:30

POSTER SESSION A (NCKU Activity Center Gallery)

14:30-15:45

ORAL SESSION 5A—MOBILITY AND TRANSPORT IN AQUIFERS: BIOTIC AND ABIOTIC TRANSFORMATIONS
Location: Conference Hall Lecture Room 1
Session Chairs: Jochen Bundschuh and D. Kirk Nordstrom

14:30-14:45

The bioavailabity of organic matter as a controlling factor on arsenic release in Asian aquifers
B.E. van Dongen, H.A.L. Rowland, W.M. Al Lawati, M. Héry, A.G. Gault, J.R. Lloyd, D.A. Polya, R.D. Pancost, F. Gill &C. Bryant

14:45-15:00

Influence of arsenic surface adsorption and iron reduction on arsenic mobilization and reduction by Shewanella putrefaciens strain CN-32
J.H. Huang, A. Lazzaro, J. Zeyer, R. Kretzschmar & A. Voegelin

15:00-15:15

Microbial characterization of Holocene alluvial sediments in the Meghna Flood Plain of Matlab Upazila, Bangladesh
K.R. Gunaratna, A. Shokri, P. Bhattacharya, G. Jacks, J. Bundschuh & M. von Brömssen

15:15-15:30

Microbe-enhanced mobility of arsenic in deep Pleistocene aquifers in Bangladesh
R.K. Dhar, Y. Zheng, K.A. Radloff, B. Mailloux, A. van Geen

15:30-15:45

Seasonal hydrology and its influence on arsenic transport in a coastal wetland, Southwest of Western Australia
B. Nath, C.E. Oldham, D.D. Boland & L.C. Ellis

15:45-16:05

Coffee Break (Conference Hall Concourse)

16:05-17:05

ORAL SESSION 6A—RISK ASSESSMENT AND MODELLING
Location: Conference Hall Lecture Room 1
Session Chairs: John McArthur and Zhaohui Li

16:05-16:20

Interactions of arsenic and humic acid on Al2O3
C.-Y. Peng, H.-Y. Kang, C.-Y. Liao, H.-P. Wang & H.-C. Wang

16:20-16:35

Groundwater modeling for assessment of the sustainability of low-As aquifers in regions with high As-groundwater in SE-Bangladesh
M. von Brömssen, L. Markussen, P. Bhattacharya, G. Jacks, R. Thunvik, K.M. Ahmed, M.Aziz Hasan, M.Moklesur Rahman ,M. Hossain & M.Mainul Islam

16:35-16:50

Potential arsenic hazard risk in groundwater in China
L. Rodríguez-Lado, M. Amini, A. Johnson, M. Berg, G. Sun, Q. Zhang, J. Shi & K. Zhang

16:50-17:05

Risk-based selection of drinking water well location in an arsenic containing aquifer
O. Gunduz & C. Simsek

17:05-18:00

PANEL DISCUSSION A (Conference Hall Lecture Room 1)

18:00-19:00

NCKU Campus Tour

19:00-21:00

Congress Dinner (Five-Star Shangri-Las’ Far Eastern Plaza Hotel) (with invitation only)

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Time

Item

08:00-08:30

Plenary Keynote Lecture 3 (Cheng-Kung Hall): Arsenic in Medicine: Ancient and Modern
W.R. Cullen

08:30-09:00

Plenary Keynote Lecture 4 (Cheng-Kung Hall): Sedimentological, climatic, and tectonic, controls on arsenic pollution of groundwater
J. McArthur

09:00-10:40

ORAL SESSION 7A—MOBILITY AND TRANSPORT IN AQUIFERS: BIOTIC AND ABIOTIC TRANSFORMATIONS (II)
Location: Conference Hall Lecture Room 1
Session Chairs: Ravi Naidu and Thomas R. Kulp

09:00-09:15

Analysis of spatial and temporal characteristics of arsenic in groundwater in Chia-Nan Plain using GIS tools
C.-H. Jen & J.-C. Lin

09:15-09:30

Arsenic occurrence and speciation in Cyclope neritea, a gastropod found in the arsenic-rich marine shallow-water hydrothermal system off Milos Island, Greece
M.J. Ruiz-Chancho, T. Pichler & R.E. Price

09:30-09:45

Metabolism and biological role of arsenic in the Mediterranean polychaete Sabella spallanzanii
D. Fattorini, A. Notti, M. Di Carlo & F. Regoli

09:45-10:00

Degradation of arsenoribosides from marine macroalgae in simulated rock pools
S. Foster & W. Maher

10:00-10:15

Mobilization of arsenic linked to sulfate-reducing activity in an artificial aquifer
A. Locatelli, E. Dumont, C. Joulian, C. Crouzet, F. Garrido, A. Burnol & F. Battaglia-Brunet

10:15-10:35

Coffee Break (Conference Hall Concourse)

10:40-12:25

ORAL SESSION 8A—ANALYICAL METHOD FOR ARSENIC
Location: Conference Hall Lecture Room 1
Session Chairs:J. O. Nriagu and Ondra Sracek

10:35-10:50

On-site voltammetric system for arsenic speciation in groundwater
K.B. Gibbon-Walsh, P. Salaün & C.M.G. van den Berg

10:50-11:05

A novel extraction method for arsenic speciation in rice grains
J.-H. Huang, G. Ilgen & P. Fecher

11:05-11:20

Analytical challenges of human arsenic metabolites
Y. Cai, L. Yehiayan, M. Pattabiraman, K. Kavallieratos, X. Wang & L.H. Boise

11:20-11:35

Assessment of arsenic rich water quality through neuro-fuzzy-based intelligent theories
F.-J. Chang, C.-H. Chung, P.-A. Chen & C.-W. Liu

11:35-11:50

Bioavailability and speciation of arsenic contaminated food and the relevance to human exposure
R. Naidu, A.L. Juhasz, E. Smith & E. Lombi

11:50-12:05

β-Pinene ameliorates As-induced oxidative damage in rice roots
D.R. Batish, N. Chouhan & R.K. Kohli

12:05-12:20

Arsenic exposure to rural population in Bangladesh
A.B.M. R. Islam, M.M.R. Sarker & S.A. Ahmad

12:30-13:30

Lunch Break (Conference Hall Multifunction Room)

13:30-15:30

POSTER SESSION AND POSTER CONTEST (NCKU Activity Center Gallery)

15:30-16:30

PLENARY PANEL DISCUSSION
Location: Cheng-Kung Hall
Chairs: Jiin-Shuh Jean, Jochen Bundschuh, Prosun Bhattacharya, William R. Cullen, John M. McArthur, Yan Zheng, Chien-Jen Chen, Jerome Nriagu, Allan Smith, Arun B. Mukherjee, Marie Vahter, Ravi Naidu, Chen-Wuing Liu

16:30-16:50

Coffee Break (Conference Hall Concourse)

16:50-17:30

CLOSING CEREMONY (Cheng-Kung Hall)

17:30-18:30

NCKU Campus Tour