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Physical Chemistry of Soil and Aquifer Systems, at the ACS National Meeting, September 2006, San Francisco, CA

Jon Chorover, University of Arizona

The ACS-PRF funds provided by this grant were used to defray the travel cost of all speakers listed in the original proposal. The ACS symposium in honor of Professor Garrison Sposito (UC Berkeley) was extremely well attended, with capacity or over-capacity sessions over a full four-day period (September 10-13) during the September 2006 annual meetings in San Francisco. In addition to the 15 invited speakers, we received over one hundred volunteered papers.

The symposium was split into eight thematic half-day sessions:

1. Aqueous speciation and mineral formation

2. Adsorption-desorption at particle surfaces (I)

3. Adsorption-desorptino at particle surfaces (II)

4. Sorption modeling

5. Particle structure and reactivity

6. Mineral dissolution and biotic catalysis

7. Natural weathering environments

8. Anthropogenic effects and After-word

Several presentations were solicited for contribution to a special issue of Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta that was likewise published in honor of Professor Sposito (Volume 71, Issue 23, entitled "Physical Chemistry of Soils and Aquifers: A Special Issue in Honor of Garrison Sposito", published in December, 2007.

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