Announcement and Call for Papers

232nd ACS National Meeting

September 10-14, 2006
San Francisco, CA, USA

Session Title: "Physical Chemistry of Soil & Aquifer Systems: A Symposium in Honor of Garrison Sposito"

Organizers: Javiera Cervini-Silva (UC-Berkeley), Jon Chorover (U. of Arizona), Stephan Kraemer (ETH Zurich), and Patricia Maurice (U. of Notre Dame)

A unifying theme of the session will be the emergent "school of thought" associated with Professor Sposito's distinguished career and those who have been influenced by it. In particular, his work has engendered rigorous interpretations of experimental data on heterogeneous environmental systems (e.g., natural soils and waters) through (i) the careful application of thermodynamic, kinetic and molecular theory and (ii) the verification of molecular-scale mechanisms by judicious use of appropriate in-situ spectroscopies. We invite contributions on various aspects of adsorption-desorption, precipitation-dissolution, oxidation-reduction and colloidal interactions of environmental particles and solutes in aqueous systems.

Please consider contributing a poster or oral presentation to this symposium and celebration. Abstracts must be submitted prior to the April 24 deadline at the following website: http://oasys.acs.org/oasys.htm. Once at the website, scroll down and select the GEOC division to find the symposium, which is being co-sponsored by the Geochemistry, Colloid and Surface Chemistry, and Environmental Chemistry Divisions.

Confirmed invited speakers:

Philippe Baveye (Cornell University, USA)
William Casey (UC Davis, USA)
Laurent Charlet (Grenoble, France)
Sabine Goldberg (US Salinity Lab/UC Riverside, USA)
Janet Hering (Caltech, USA)
Larry Hersman (Los Alamos National Lab, USA)
Cliff Johnston (Purdue University, USA)
Ruben Kretzschmar (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
James Kubicki (Penn State University, USA)
Alain Manceau (Université J. Fourier, France)
Ladislau Martin Neto (EMBRAPA Agricultural Instrumentation Center, Brazil)
Nicola Senesi (University of Bari, Italy)
Neal Skipper (Oxford, UK)
Donald Sparks (Univ. Delaware, USA)
Brad Tebo (OGI, USA)
Samuel Traina (UC Merced, USA)
Leslie Warren (McMaster University, Canada)

Further information can be found at the conference website: http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=meetings\sanfrancisco2006\home.html

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P.D. Dr. Stephan M. Kraemer
Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, ETH Zuerich
Universitaetstrasse 16
ETH Zentrum CHN F 21.1
CH-8092 Zuerich
Switzerland
Tel.: +41-44-633-6077
Fax.: +41-44-633-1118
e-mail: kraemer@env.ethz.ch
http://www.ito.ethz.ch/SoilChem/staff/kraemer/