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

29 Feb 2016, 10:00 → 4 Mar 2016, 19:30 Europe/Moscow

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Slides Book_of_Abstracts-TFM-2016.pdf

Monday 29 February ¶

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.¶

Tuesday 1 March ¶

Late registration and putting up posters¶

Plenary session: Chair: Marina Frontasyeva¶

1 Welcome address – JINR Director. Academician Victor A. Matveev.¶

Slides 0_Matveev__01_03_2016.ppt

2 Krzysztof Olendrzynski – Update from the Secretariat of the Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution Convention.¶

Slides 1_29_ICP_Vegetation_Dubna_2016_final.pptx

3 Harry Harmens et al. – Overview of the achievements of the ICP Vegetation in 2015 and future workplan (2016-2018).¶

Slides 2_Harmens_et_al.,_overview.pptx

4 Walter Seidling – ICP Forests - platform for monitoring and research.¶

Slides 3_presentation_ICPForests.pptx

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.¶

Slides 4_Ilia_Ilyin_Dubna_ICP-Vegetation-29.ppt

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.¶

Slides 5_Frontasyeva-TFM-Dubna-Russia-2016-4.pptx

7 Gina Mills et al. – Preparations for ozone critical level workshop, autumn 2016, Spain and report from the epidemiology workshop.¶

Slides 6_Gina,_critical_levels,_plenary.pptx

8 Ignacio González Fernández – Establishing critical levels for effects of ozone on biodiversity.¶

Slides 7_ICP2016_O3_biodiversity_IGF.pptx

9 Robert Šajn et al. – Applicability of artificial neural networks for predicting concentrations of chemical elements in various environments.¶

Slides ANN_Dubna.pdf

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.¶

Slides КоролеваTRACE_ELEMENTS_ACCUMULATION_BY_MOSSES,_LICHENS_AND.pdf

13 Pavel Nekhoroshkov et al. – Atmospheric deposition of major and trace elements in the mountain Crimea studied by the moss biomonitoring technique.¶

Slides Nekhoroshkov_Trace_elements_in_the_Crimean_mosses.pdf

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.¶

Slides 13-a_Moos_Staored_Dubna2016.pptx

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.¶

Slides Skudnik_TFM-2016_pp_final.pptx

23 General discussion¶

Slides Harmens_discussions_mosses.pptx

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¶

Wednesday 2 March ¶

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.¶

Slides 001_Steinnes_Radionuclides_Dubna__160301.ppt

27 Miodrag Krmar et al. – Spatial distribution of some radionuclides measured in mosses collected over large area.¶

Slides 002_Be_Ra_K_distribution_3.ppt

28 Zbigniew Ziembik et al. – Application of gamma spectrometry and compositional data analysis in estimation of atmospheric deposition.¶

Slides 003_Ziembik_Dubna16_020316.ppt

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

Slides 004_Dubna_2016_G_Kosior.ppt

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.¶

Slides SicardPresentation_ICP_Vegetation_Dubna_2016.pdf

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?¶

Slides 005_29_ICP_Paoli_et_al_lichens.pdf

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.¶

Slides Presentación1_Ramos.pptx

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.¶

Slides 006_Stafilov-presentation-Dubna.ppt

41 Pranvera Lazo et al. – First Albanian moss biomonitoring survey and some future considerations.¶

Slides LAZO-DUBNA,_2016.pdf

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

Slides 008_Dubnakonf_BA_2016.ppt

43 Claudia Stihi et al. – Moss survey 2010 in Romania. Results and perspectives.¶

Slides 009_stihi_TFM_2016.ppt

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).¶

Slides 01_Main_Slide_Hyperlinked_by_DHEERAJ.ppt

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¶

Thursday 3 March ¶

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.¶

Friday 4 March ¶

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.