| ENVR | Sunday, August 19, 2007 | ||
8:30 AM-11:30 AM Boston Park Plaza -- Beacon Hill Rm, Oral | |||
Fate of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Urban Systems | |||
| Sorption, Bioremediation, NY/NJ Harbor | |||
| Organizers: | Donna E. Fennell Lisa A. Totten | ||
| 8:30 AM | 9 | Strong sorption of phenanthrene by nonhydrolyzable organic matter in soils and sediments Yong Ran, Ke Sun, Yu Yang, Baoshan Xing, Eddy Y. Zeng | |
| 8:50 AM | 10 | Interaction mechanism of nonpolar organic contaminants in natural organic matter: Dominating role of adsorption (micropore-filling) Yong Ran, Ke Sun, Baoshan Xing, Li Zhou | |
| 9:10 AM | 11 | Assessing desorption kinetics of native pyrene from contaminated sediment by time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy Dave T. F. Kuo, Rachel Adams, Steven M. Rudnick, Robert F Chen, Philip M. Gschwend | |
| 9:30 AM | Intermission | ||
| 9:50 AM | 12 | In situ capping of contaminated sediments: Biogeochemical characterization of sediments and caps and its impact on contaminant fate and transport David W. Himmelheber, Martial Taillefert, Joseph B. Hughes | |
| 10:10 AM | 13 | Bioremediation approaches for PCB- and PCDD/F-contaminated sediments Donna E. Fennell, Valdis Krumins, Beth Ravit, Lisa A. Totten | |
| 10:30 AM | 14 | Persistent chlordane concentrations in Long Island Sound sediment: Implications from chlordane, 210Pb and 137Cs depth profiles Lijia Yang, Xiqing Li, John Crusius, Urs Jans, Michael E. Melcer, Pengfei Zhang | |
| 10:50 AM | 15 | Chiral signatures as a tool for source apportionment of PCBs in the Hudson River Estuary Brian J. Asher, Charles S. Wong, Lisa A. Totten | |
| 11:10 AM | 16 | Modeling atmospheric POP dynamics in urban systems Lisa A. Totten, Georgiy Stenchikov, Songyan Du | |
Fate of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Urban Systems -- Next Session
Symposium Grid -- Division of Environmental Chemistry -- Session Listing
The 234th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 19-23, 2007