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Molecular-Scale Chemical and Biogeochemical Processes Affecting the Mobility of Metal and Radionuclide Contaminants in the Subsurface, 2008 Goldschmidt Conference, July 13-18, Vancouver, Canada
The principal investigator and three co-organizers chaired a well-attended session of the 2008 Goldschmidt Conference titlted "Molecular-scale chemical and biogeochemical processes affecting the mobility of metal and radionuclide contaminants in the subsurface." The conference was held in Vancouver, British Columbia from July 13-18, 2008. The session was the largest of the entire conference with 49 oral presentations, including 1 keynote and 5 invited talks, and nearly 60 poster presentations in three days. The room of the symposium always had more than 50 people in it and at its peak there were more than 120. The support of the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund was acknowledged at the beginning of every half-day session.
Support of the PRF defrayed the travel expenses of the keynote speaker and one of the invited speaker. The keynote speaker, Dr. Philippe Van Cappellen, traveled from the Netherlands to present a talk titled "Fate and transport in environmental systems: Integrating experiments, theory and reactive transport modeling." Invited speaker Dr. John Lloyd from the United Kingdom gave a talk titled "Life at the interface: Mechanisms and impact of microbial redox transformations of metals and radionuclides." Three of the other four invited speakers received partial coverage of travel expenses from support of The Geochemical Society, which was the sponsoring organization.
