CALL FOR PAPERS
Fate of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Urban Systems
Division of Environmental Chemistry
234th American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting
August 19-23, 2007
Boston, MA
Urban systems are significant sources of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) to surrounding areas. The cycling of POPs within urban systems is different from, and in some ways more complex than, the cycling of these contaminants in pristine systems. An understanding of POP cycling in urban areas must include understanding their movement through waste- and storm-water collection systems, their behavior in wastewater treatment systems, and their fate in and redistribution from urban aquatic systems that may be their ultimate destination. It also concerns issues of remediation of urban contamination hot spots, local atmospheric transport and deposition, and source apportionment and track down of POPs sources in urban systems. This session will feature presentations that address all aspects of POP cycling in the urban environment.
Presenters are required to submit a short abstract to the ACS by April 1, 2007, using the ACS online system (OASYS) at http://oasys.acs.org/. This division also requires an extended abstract of two or more pages that must be submitted to the symposium organizer by April 1, 2007 using the instructions posted on the web at http://envirofacs.org. The organizer prefers to receive extended abstracts as attachments to e-Mail in MS Word or RTF file formats. Please label the abstract file with the ACS abstract number and first author’s last name.
Symposium Organizers:
Lisa A. Totten, Rutgers University, Department of Environmental Sciences, 14 College Farm Rd., New Brunswick, NJ 08901, Phone: (732) 932-9588, Fax: (732) 932-8644, e-mail: totten@envsci.rutgers.edu
Donna E. Fennell, Rutgers University, Department of Environmental Sciences, 14 College Farm Rd., New Brunswick, NJ 08901, Phone: (732) 932-8750, Fax: (732) 932-8644, e-mail: fennell@envsci.rutgers.edu