Name: The 29th Task Force Meeting of the UNECE ICP Vegetation
Start: 2016-02-29T10:00:00+03:00
End: 2016-03-04T19:30:00+03:00
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The 29th Task Force Meeting of the UNECE ICP Vegetation

from Monday, February 29, 2016 (10:00 AM) to Friday, March 4, 2016 (7:30 PM)

Monday, February 29, 2016

10:00 AM

10:00 AM - 3:00 PM

3:00 PM

3:00 PM - 7:00 PM

7:00 PM

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Tuesday, March 1, 2016

7:30 AM

7:30 AM - 8:15 AM
8:10 AM Chair: Marina Frontasyeva
Chair: Marina Frontasyeva
8:10 AM - 9:45 AM
Contributions

8:10 AM Welcome address – JINR Director. Academician Victor A. Matveev.

8:25 AM Krzysztof Olendrzynski – Update from the Secretariat of the Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution Convention.

8:40 AM Harry Harmens et al. – Overview of the achievements of the ICP Vegetation in 2015 and future workplan (2016-2018).

9:05 AM Walter Seidling – ICP Forests - platform for monitoring and research.

9:25 AM Ilia Ilyin – Analysis of long-term trends of atmospheric heavy metal pollution in the EMEP countries based on moss survey data and modelling results.
9:50 AM Coffee/tea and poster viewing (with authors at poster)
Coffee/tea and poster viewing (with authors at poster)
9:50 AM - 10:50 AM
10:50 AM Chair: Harry Harmens
Chair: Harry Harmens
10:50 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

10:50 AM Marina Frontasyeva et al. – Information on the moss survey in 2015: some preliminary results.

11:10 AM Gina Mills et al. – Preparations for ozone critical level workshop, autumn 2016, Spain and report from the epidemiology workshop.

11:25 AM Ignacio González Fernández – Establishing critical levels for effects of ozone on biodiversity.

11:40 AM Robert Šajn et al. – Applicability of artificial neural networks for predicting concentrations of chemical elements in various environments.
12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM Moss survey in the EECCA region. Chair: Eiliv Steinnes
Moss survey in the EECCA region. Chair: Eiliv Steinnes
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Contributions

1:00 PM Aleksander Alekseev – Spatial analysis of the area damaged by heavy metals released from smelter industrial plants: case study for Kola Peninsula, Murmansk region, Russia.

1:20 PM Inga Zinicovscaia et al. – Multi-element atmospheric deposition study in the Republic of Moldova.

1:40 PM Yulia Koroleva et al. – Trace elements accumulation by mosses, lichens and mushrooms in South-Eastern Baltic.

2:00 PM Pavel Nekhoroshkov et al. – Atmospheric deposition of major and trace elements in the mountain Crimea studied by the moss biomonitoring technique.

2:20 PM General discussion.
Ozone effects on crops. Chair: Gina Mills
Ozone effects on crops. Chair: Gina Mills
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Contributions

1:00 PM Introduction to ozone sessions (Gina Mills) and introductions by participants.

1:20 PM Kent Burkey et al. – Updates on studies on ozone-temperature interactions in the field.

1:40 PM Vicky Bermejo et al. – O3-sensitivity of the Mediterranean Spanish bread wheat: from the old cultivars to the current market-dominant. Preliminary results.

2:00 PM Ignacio González Fernández – Ozone effects on the marketable biomass of leafy crops under Mediterranean conditions.

2:20 PM General discussion.
2:30 PM Coffee/tea
Coffee/tea
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
3:00 PM Improvements and making more use of the data. Chair: Aleksander Alekseev
Improvements and making more use of the data. Chair: Aleksander Alekseev
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Contributions

3:00 PM Lotti Thöni – Reduction of the number of sampling sites in Switzerland for the survey 2015.

3:20 PM Emeline Lequy et al. – Assessment of the uncertainty associated with heavy metal concentrations in mosses measured in France (1996 to 2011).

3:40 PM Mitja Skudnik et al. – Spatial interpolation of N concentrations and δ15N values in mosses collected within or outside the area of the canopy drip line.

4:00 PM General discussion
Global outreach activities - (1) Effects on food security. Chair: Vicky Bermejo
Global outreach activities - (1) Effects on food security. Chair: Vicky Bermejo
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Contributions

3:00 PM Gina Mills et al. – Modelling the global impacts of ozone on wheat.

3:20 PM Discussing
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
8:00 AM Mosses as biomonitors of radionuclides. Chair: Trajce Stafilov
Mosses as biomonitors of radionuclides. Chair: Trajce Stafilov
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Contributions

8:00 AM Eiliv Steinnes et al. – Use of mosses for monitoring atmospheric deposition of radionuclides – possibilities and limitations.

8:20 AM Miodrag Krmar et al. – Spatial distribution of some radionuclides measured in mosses collected over large area.

8:40 AM Zbigniew Ziembik et al. – Application of gamma spectrometry and compositional data analysis in estimation of atmospheric deposition.

9:00 AM Grzegorz Kosior et al. – Pleurozium schreberi (Brid.) Mitt. as a bioindicator of heavy metal pollution and radionuclides in selected Polish National Parks.

9:20 AM General discussion.
Concentrations and effects. Chair: Klaudia Borowiak
Concentrations and effects. Chair: Klaudia Borowiak
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Contributions

8:00 AM Pierre Sicard et al. – An epidemiological assessment of stomatal ozone flux-based critical levels for visible ozone injury in Southern European forests.

8:20 AM Evgenios Agathokleous et al. – Growth, physiology and productivity of willow (Salix sachalinensis L.), an energy crop, exposed to ethylene di-urea under O3-enriched free air.

9:00 AM Samia Madkour – Different bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) genotypes exhibit different modes of tolerance against ozone injury.

9:20 AM Discussion
9:30 AM Coffee/tea and poster viewing
Coffee/tea and poster viewing
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
10:00 AM Future activities and opportunities. Chair: Marina Frontasyeva
Future activities and opportunities. Chair: Marina Frontasyeva
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Contributions

10:00 AM Luca Paoli et al. - Do lichen bioaccumulation data tell the truth?

10:20 AM Discussion on progress 2015/16 moss survey and future activities.
Global outreach activities - (2) Effects on carbon sequestration and biodiversity. Chair: Kent Burkey
Global outreach activities - (2) Effects on carbon sequestration and biodiversity. Chair: Kent Burkey
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Contributions

10:00 AM Mary Ramos – Ozone pollution in Central America.

10:20 AM Sheikh Saeed Ahmad – Spatio-temporal analysis of atmospheric ozone based on GIS modelling in Rawalpindi/Islamabad, Pakistan.

10:40 AM Gina Mills et al. – Impact of ozone on carbon sequestration and biodiversity, field-based evidence of ozone impacts.
11:30 AM Lunch
Lunch
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM Moss survey in South-Eastern Europe. Chair: Sébastien Leblond
Moss survey in South-Eastern Europe. Chair: Sébastien Leblond
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Contributions

1:00 PM Trajce Stafilov et al. – Heavy metals air pollution study in mines environments. Case study Bregalnica river basin, Republic of Macedonia.

1:20 PM Pranvera Lazo et al. – First Albanian moss biomonitoring survey and some future considerations.

1:40 PM Agnes Balint et al. – Atmospheric deposition of heavy metals in „Óbuda” and „Margaret” Islands (Budapest, Hungary) tested by different mosses and ICP-OES.

2:00 PM Claudia Stihi et al. – Moss survey 2010 in Romania. Results and perspectives.

2:20 PM Discussion.
Ozone: mapping of ozone risks. Chair: Gina Mills
Ozone: mapping of ozone risks. Chair: Gina Mills
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Contributions

1:00 PM Harry Harmens – Mapping procedure within the Convention.

1:20 PM Gina Mills – Mapping ecosystems at risk from ozone in the UK.

1:40 PM Ignacio González Fernández – Mapping ecosystems at risk from ozone in Spain.

2:00 PM Discussion
2:30 PM Coffee/tea and poster viewing
Coffee/tea and poster viewing
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
3:00 PM Outreach. Chair: Mitja Skudnik
Outreach. Chair: Mitja Skudnik
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Contributions

3:00 PM Dinesh Saxena – Assessing airborne pollution by mosses as biomonitors - Long-term integrated monitoring of atmospheric metals (2000-2010).

3:20 PM Discussion on further outreach opportunities.
Critical levels methodology. Chair: Ignacio González Fernández
Critical levels methodology. Chair: Ignacio González Fernández
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Contributions

3:00 PM Current developments in methodology (Led by Gina Mills).

3:30 PM Focus on (semi-)natural vegetation (Led by Ignacio González Fernández).

4:00 PM Discussion on field-based evidence of ozone effects: - What do we know? What do we need to know? Future activities.
6:00 PM

6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Thursday, March 3, 2016

8:00 AM Chair: Harry Harmens
Chair: Harry Harmens
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

9:30 AM Coffee/tea, taking down posters
Coffee/tea, taking down posters
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

10:30 AM

10:30 AM - 10:31 AM

11:00 AM Lunch
Lunch
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

12:00 PM

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Friday, March 4, 2016

6:30 AM

6:30 AM - 7:00 PM

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