SCIENCE BRINGS NATIONS TOGETHER
The 29th Task Force Meeting of the UNECE ICP Vegetation

Europe/Moscow
Minutes
Slides
    • JINR will provide transport per bus between Sheremetievo or Domodedovo international airports and the hotel (travel time: ca. 2 and 4 hrs respectively). The departure time of the bus will depend on flight arrival times.
    • Registration
    • Welcome reception in the restaurant of hotel Dubna.
    • Late registration and putting up posters
    • Plenary session: Chair: Marina Frontasyeva
      • 1
        Welcome address – JINR Director. Academician Victor A. Matveev.
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      • 2
        Krzysztof Olendrzynski – Update from the Secretariat of the Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution Convention.
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      • 3
        Harry Harmens et al. – Overview of the achievements of the ICP Vegetation in 2015 and future workplan (2016-2018).
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      • 4
        Walter Seidling – ICP Forests - platform for monitoring and research.
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      • 5
        Ilia Ilyin – Analysis of long-term trends of atmospheric heavy metal pollution in the EMEP countries based on moss survey data and modelling results.
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    • 09:50
      Coffee/tea and poster viewing (with authors at poster)
    • Plenary session: Chair: Harry Harmens
      • 6
        Marina Frontasyeva et al. – Information on the moss survey in 2015: some preliminary results.
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      • 7
        Gina Mills et al. – Preparations for ozone critical level workshop, autumn 2016, Spain and report from the epidemiology workshop.
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      • 8
        Ignacio González Fernández – Establishing critical levels for effects of ozone on biodiversity.
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      • 9
        Robert Šajn et al. – Applicability of artificial neural networks for predicting concentrations of chemical elements in various environments.
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    • 12:00
      Lunch
    • Moss survey: Moss survey in the EECCA region. Chair: Eiliv Steinnes
      • 10
        Aleksander Alekseev – Spatial analysis of the area damaged by heavy metals released from smelter industrial plants: case study for Kola Peninsula, Murmansk region, Russia.
      • 11
        Inga Zinicovscaia et al. – Multi-element atmospheric deposition study in the Republic of Moldova.
      • 12
        Yulia Koroleva et al. – Trace elements accumulation by mosses, lichens and mushrooms in South-Eastern Baltic.
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      • 13
        Pavel Nekhoroshkov et al. – Atmospheric deposition of major and trace elements in the mountain Crimea studied by the moss biomonitoring technique.
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      • 14
        General discussion.
    • Ozone: Ozone effects on crops. Chair: Gina Mills
      • 15
        Introduction to ozone sessions (Gina Mills) and introductions by participants.
      • 16
        Kent Burkey et al. – Updates on studies on ozone-temperature interactions in the field.
      • 17
        Vicky Bermejo et al. – O3-sensitivity of the Mediterranean Spanish bread wheat: from the old cultivars to the current market-dominant. Preliminary results.
      • 18
        Ignacio González Fernández – Ozone effects on the marketable biomass of leafy crops under Mediterranean conditions.
      • 19
        General discussion.
    • 14:30
      Coffee/tea
    • Moss survey: Improvements and making more use of the data. Chair: Aleksander Alekseev
      • 20
        Lotti Thöni – Reduction of the number of sampling sites in Switzerland for the survey 2015.
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      • 21
        Emeline Lequy et al. – Assessment of the uncertainty associated with heavy metal concentrations in mosses measured in France (1996 to 2011).
      • 22
        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.
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      • 23
        General discussion
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    • Ozone: Global outreach activities - (1) Effects on food security. Chair: Vicky Bermejo
      • 24
        Gina Mills et al. – Modelling the global impacts of ozone on wheat.
      • 25
        Discussing
    • Moss survey: Mosses as biomonitors of radionuclides. Chair: Trajce Stafilov
      • 26
        Eiliv Steinnes et al. – Use of mosses for monitoring atmospheric deposition of radionuclides – possibilities and limitations.
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      • 27
        Miodrag Krmar et al. – Spatial distribution of some radionuclides measured in mosses collected over large area.
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      • 28
        Zbigniew Ziembik et al. – Application of gamma spectrometry and compositional data analysis in estimation of atmospheric deposition.
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      • 29
        Grzegorz Kosior et al. – Pleurozium schreberi (Brid.) Mitt. as a bioindicator of heavy metal pollution and radionuclides in selected Polish National Parks.
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      • 30
        General discussion.
    • Ozone: Concentrations and effects. Chair: Klaudia Borowiak
      • 31
        Pierre Sicard et al. – An epidemiological assessment of stomatal ozone flux-based critical levels for visible ozone injury in Southern European forests.
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      • 32
        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.
      • 33
        Samia Madkour – Different bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) genotypes exhibit different modes of tolerance against ozone injury.
      • 34
        Discussion
    • 09:30
      Coffee/tea and poster viewing
    • Moss survey: Future activities and opportunities. Chair: Marina Frontasyeva
      • 35
        Luca Paoli et al. - Do lichen bioaccumulation data tell the truth?
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      • 36
        Discussion on progress 2015/16 moss survey and future activities.
    • Ozone: Global outreach activities - (2) Effects on carbon sequestration and biodiversity. Chair: Kent Burkey
      • 37
        Mary Ramos – Ozone pollution in Central America.
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      • 38
        Sheikh Saeed Ahmad – Spatio-temporal analysis of atmospheric ozone based on GIS modelling in Rawalpindi/Islamabad, Pakistan.
      • 39
        Gina Mills et al. – Impact of ozone on carbon sequestration and biodiversity, field-based evidence of ozone impacts.
    • 11:30
      Lunch
    • Moss survey: Moss survey in South-Eastern Europe. Chair: Sébastien Leblond
      • 40
        Trajce Stafilov et al. – Heavy metals air pollution study in mines environments. Case study Bregalnica river basin, Republic of Macedonia.
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      • 41
        Pranvera Lazo et al. – First Albanian moss biomonitoring survey and some future considerations.
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      • 42
        Agnes Balint et al. – Atmospheric deposition of heavy metals in „Óbuda” and „Margaret” Islands (Budapest, Hungary) tested by different mosses and ICP-OES.
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      • 43
        Claudia Stihi et al. – Moss survey 2010 in Romania. Results and perspectives.
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      • 44
        Discussion.
    • Ozone: Ozone: mapping of ozone risks. Chair: Gina Mills
      • 45
        Harry Harmens – Mapping procedure within the Convention.
      • 46
        Gina Mills – Mapping ecosystems at risk from ozone in the UK.
      • 47
        Ignacio González Fernández – Mapping ecosystems at risk from ozone in Spain.
      • 48
        Discussion
    • 14:30
      Coffee/tea and poster viewing
    • Moss survey: Outreach. Chair: Mitja Skudnik
      • 49
        Dinesh Saxena – Assessing airborne pollution by mosses as biomonitors - Long-term integrated monitoring of atmospheric metals (2000-2010).
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      • 50
        Discussion on further outreach opportunities.
    • Ozone: Critical levels methodology. Chair: Ignacio González Fernández
      • 51
        Current developments in methodology (Led by Gina Mills).
      • 52
        Focus on (semi-)natural vegetation (Led by Ignacio González Fernández).
      • 53
        Discussion on field-based evidence of ozone effects: - What do we know? What do we need to know? Future activities.
    • Conference dinner in the restaurant of Hotel Dubna
    • Plenary session: Chair: Harry Harmens

       Reporting back from ozone and moss sessions;
       Medium-term work plan ICP Vegetation 2016 – 2018;
       Decisions and recommendations of the 29th Task Force Meeting;
       30th ICP Vegetation Task Force Meeting;
       Other business.

    • 09:30
      Coffee/tea, taking down posters
    • Departure bus to airports for those leaving on Thursday

      Lunch will be provided for the journey on request.

    • 11:00
      Lunch
    • Workshop on moss survey for EECCA countries (in Russian) and option for others to visit JINR.
    • Excursion to Moscow by bus.

      Participants may either return to Dubna or stay in a hotel in Moscow or take a late flight on Friday.