| 09.30 |
Registration |
| 10.00 |
Welcome
Rector of the University of Latvia Professor Ivars Lacis
Dean of Faculty of Geography and Earth Sciences Professor Maris Klavins |
Topic 1: Structural aspects of natural organic
matter
Chairperson: Georg Becher |
| 10.30 |
Keynote lecture:
Natural organic matter (NOM) and wastewater derived organic matter (WdOM)
in water treatment – Spectroscopic and chromatographic studies
Gudrun Abbt-Braun, Universität Karlsruhe, T. Doll, U. Lankes and F.
H. Frimmel |
| 11.00 |
Influence of multivalent cations on glass transitions in precipitated
dissolved organic matter
J. Frank and G. E. Schaumann |
| 11.20 |
Glass transitions in humous soil samples
J. Hurraß and G. E. Schaumann |
| 11.40 |
Radiolabeling of native humic substances with [125I]Iodoaniline
K. Franke, J. Patt, H. Kupsch and P. Warwick |
| 12.00 |
Lunch |
| 13.00 |
Quantification of hydroxamate siderophores in soil solutions
of podzolic soil profiles in Sweden
S.A. Essén, D. Bylund, S. J. M. Holmström, M. Moberg and U. S. Lundström |
| 13.20 |
Elemental and structural regularities of the individual molecules
in a fulvic acid mixtures as determined by size exclusion chromatography
coupled to mass spectrometry
T. Reemtsma and A. These |
| 13.40 |
Structural identity of LMW fulvic acids of different origin
and hints for their formation
A. These and T. Reemtsma |
Topic 2: Occurrence and role of natural organic
matter in terrestrial systems
Chairperson: Hans Boren |
| 14.00 |
Keynote lecture:
“The European carbon balance and the possible role of humic substances”
Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry |
| 14.30 |
The unexpected role of water in soil organic matter from a
macromolecular point of view
G. E. Schaumann |
| 14.50 |
Variability of organic carbon and nitrogen storage in a small
catchment at the forest tundra ecotone, northern Siberia
A. Rodionov, G. Guggenberger, M. Grabe and H. Flessa |
| 15.10 |
NOM quality and transfer from peat bogs due to environmental
changes in the mountains “Erzgebirge” (Germany)
J. Scheithauer and K. Grunewald |
| 15.30 |
Coffee break |
| 16.00 |
Ants – an important factor for dissolved organic matter dynamics
and microbial activity in decomposing spruce litter?
K. Kalbitz, A. Schramm and B. Stadler |
| 16.20 |
Sorption of dissolved organic carbon and phosphorous by an
agricultural soil
B. Gjettermann, M. Styczen, S. Hansen, O. K. Borggaard and H. C. B.
Hansen |
| 16.40 |
Changes in organic matter content on eroded Lithuanian Albeluvisols
and international calibration of analytical protocols
B. Jankauskas, G. Jankauskiene, A. Slepetiene, M. A. Fullen and C. A.
Booth |
| 17.00 |
Sorptive control on dissolved organic matter export from soils
in forest tundra ecosystems
M. Kawahigashi, K. Kaiser, A. Rodionov and G. Guggenberger |
| 17.20 |
Contents and stocks of organic matter in some Russian forest
soils: Methodical problems and perspective approaches
E. V. Abakumov and A. I. Popov |
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Nordic Chapter meeting |
| 19.00 |
Riga Centre Trip |
Topic 3: Occurrence and role of natural organic
matter in aquatic systems
Chairperson: Gunta Springe |
| 9.00 |
Keynote lecture:
“Dissolved natural organic matter (DNOM), properties and environmental
importance”
Prof. Egil Gjessing, University of Oslo |
| 9.30 |
Changes in properties of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) due
to climate change? A precipitation manipulation study.
S. Haaland, K. Austnes, G. Riise and D. Hongve |
| 9.50 |
Effects of climate change on the mobilization of dissolved
organic nitrogen (DON) – a field experiment
K. Austnes, S. Haaland and ¨. Kaste |
| 10.10 |
Photolytic and photocatalytic transformation of aquatic NOM
F. H. Frimmel, T. E. Doll and T. Brinkmann |
| 10.30 |
Coffee break |
| 11.00 |
Biological features of bog lakes with different amount of
humic substances
I. Druvietis, A. Briede, L. Eglite, E. Parele and G. Springe |
| 11.20 |
Quantification of NOM fluxes in forested drinking water catchments
in the low mountain range “Erzgebirge” Germany
D. Pavlik, C. Fiebiger and K. Grunewald |
| 11.40 |
Occurrence and removal of natural organic matter (NOM) in
drinking water treatment
T. Tuhkanen and A. Matilainen |
| 12.00 |
Natural Organic Matter (NOM) Functionality and disinfection
by-product formation
E. H. Goslan and S. A. Parsons |
| 12.20 |
Changes in NOM characteristics through watercourses from headwaters
to high order streams
R. D. Vogt and E. Gjessing |
| 12.40 |
Lunch |
| 13.50 |
Poster session Topics 1 – 4 |
| 15.00 |
Trip to a Ethnographic Open Air Museum and conference dinner |
Topic 4: Interaction of natural organic matter
with nutrients and xenobiotics
Chairperson: Jarkko Akkanen |
| 9.00 |
Keynote lecture:
Interactions of natural organic material with pollutants
Prof. Jussi Kukkonen, University of Joensuu |
| 9.30 |
Potential antiallelopathic activity of humic substances on
caffeic, ferulic and salicylic acids during early growth of lettuce
and tomato
N. Senesi, E. Loffredo and L. Monaci |
| 9.50 |
Studying the effects of “dissolved” natural organic matter
from freshwater sediments on speciation of organic contaminants: It
was supposed to be easy
J. Akkanen, A. Tuikka, M. Lyytikäinen and J. V. K. Kukkonen |
| 10.10 |
Behaviour of plutonium in aqueous systems containing humic
substances
N. L. Banik, S. Bürger, R. A. Buda, J. V. Kratz, B. Kuczewski and N.
Trautmann |
| 10.30 |
Coffee break |
| 11.00 |
The role of decaying organic matter in Cu sorption by Phragmites
Australis a kinetic study
V. R. Unamuno, A. De Visscher, E. Lesage, E. Meers1, F. Tack1 |
| 11.20 |
Stabilisation of dissolved organic matter by formation of
DOM-Al-precipitates
T. Scheel, C. Dörfler, K. Kalbitz |
| 11.40 |
Modelling Hg interactions with natural organic matter using
WHAM
E.Tipping |
| 12.00 |
Effects of gyttja on soil chemical and biological properties
and availability of heavy metal in soil
A. Karaca, O. C. Turgay, N. Tamer |
| 12.20 |
Lunch |
| 13.30 |
Organic and minerogenic acidity in Finnish rivers in relation
to land use cover
T. Mattsson, P.Kortelainen, A. Lepistö, A. Räike |
| 13.50 |
Evaluation and compensation of ion-exclusion effects during
gel-permeation fractionation of humic substances
E.Yu. Belyaeva, I.V. Perminova and A.V. Kudryavtsev |
| 14.10 |
Polymerization of phenolic compounds on the surface of hydroxyaluminum-kaolinite
complex, catalyzed by immobilized fungal laccase
A.G. Zavarzina |
| 14.30 |
Humic substances in drinking water reservoir systems of the
Ore Mountains (Saxony): distribution in the reservoirs, and influence
on treated water quality
C. Fiebiger, W. Schmidt |
| 14.50 |
The influence of size distribution on colour properties of
DOM in low ionic forest lakes E-Norway
G. Riise, S. Haaland, D. Hongve, I. Digernes |
| 15.10 |
Application of high-voltage plasma technology for processing
of organic matters
S. Cifanskis |
| 15.30 |
Poster session Topics 1-4 |
| 17.00 |
Closing of the conference |
Posters will be on display in the Poster Area starting from 01. 06 (situated
in the 2nd floor room No. 5) throughout the Conference. Poster size should
not exceed A0 (70 x100 cm) in portrait format. Pins for fastening the posters
will be available in the Poster Area.
