NZTEG Conference 2008

Links to Abstracts, Presentations & Written Papers

(Listed in alphabetical order by surname of author presenting)


Prof. Brian Alloway (University of Reading) (Plenary): Copper and zinc in soils: Too little or too much?


Prof. Brian Alloway (University of Reading): Use of iron oxides to minimize arsenic uptake in vegetables.


Amanda Black (Lincoln University): Use of DGT-DIFS to measure plant availability of Cd, Cu, Ni and Zn.


Assoc. Prof. Dave Craw (University of Otago) (Plenary): Antimony in the New Zealand environment.


Dr Paul Dansted (New Zealand Food Safety Authority): Trace-element profiling as a means of assisting in product identification.


Perry Davy (GNS Sciences): Application of nuclear analytical techniques to trace element determination in environmental studies.


Dr Michael Ellwood (Australian National University): Zinc cycling in the Whau Estuary, New Zealand.


Anja Feise-Preston (Ministry for the Environment): National methodology for deriving soil contaminant levels protective of human health.


Fred Fryer (Agilent Technologies Australia Pty Ltd): Agilent ICP-MS and the determination of high matrix samples (non traditional ICP-MS samples).


Dr Sally Gaw (University of Canterbury): Ecotoxicity of aged trace elements in orchard soils.


Assoc. Prof. Chris Hendy (University of Waikato): Diagenesis and trace element redistribution in Rotorua lakes and their sediments.


Assoc. Prof. Brendan Hicks (University of Waikato): Determining life history of rainbow trout and common smelt in Rotorua lakes by laser ablation ICPMS of otoliths.


P. Jeyakumar (Massey University): Copper and zinc fractionation and speciation in sewage sludge amended with metals.


Shamshad Karatela (Auckland University of Technology): Mercury exposure and behavioural problems in Pacific children.


Drs Ben Keet (Geo & Hydro Milieutechniek BV): The Triad Approach to make contaminated sites cleanup projects better and more cost-effective.


Dr Jonathan Kim (University of Otago): Using strontium isotope ratios in fish ear bones to reveal individual fish life history in brown trout.


Dr Nick Kim (Environment Waikato): Inadvertent sources of trace elements in Waikato's rural soils.


Dr Nick Ling (University of Waikato): Koura: integrating biomonitors of lake chemistry.


Dr Loga Loganathan (Massey University): Accumulation, dynamics and risks of fertiliser-derived fluorine in grazed pasture systems: a review.


Prof. Bill Maher (University of Canberra) (Plenary): Arsenic cycling in marine ecosystems.


Prof. Bill Maher (University of Canberra): Recent developments in speciation analyses of As, Se and Sb.


Prof. Ron McLaren (Lincoln University): Metal chemistry & bioavailability in a biosolids-amended forest soil following conversion to agriculture.


Dr Gordon Miskelly (University of Auckland): Forensic applications of multielement analysis.


Dr Bruce Mountain (IGNS): Trace element uptake into siliceous microstromatolites in New Zealand geothermal areas.


Dr Daniel Ressler (Susquehanna University): Trace metal redistribution above a burning anthracite mine in Centralia, Pennsylvania USA.


Gavin Robinson (Robinson Scientific): Copper tea anyone?


Andrew Rumsby (Pattle Delamore Partners Ltd): Trace element enrichments in sediments of the lower Firth of Thames.


Andrew Rumsby (Pattle Delamore Partners Ltd): When are urban lakes contaminated land?


Dr Peter Swedlund (University of Auckland): An ATR-FTIR study of silicic acid adsorption onto ferrihydrite.


Yantao Song (University of Auckland): Cadmium and phthalic acid sorption by iron oxides.


Clyde Sutton (University of Waikato): Trace elements in Hamilton air.


Prof. Neil Ward (University of Surrey): Recent advances in trace element determination, including speciation analysis.


Prof. Neil Ward (University of Surrey) (Plenary): Trace element links to human health.


Assoc. Prof. Jenny Webster-Brown (University of Auckland): Enrichment and removal processes affecting trace elements in Antarctic meltwaters.


Dr Guodong Yuan (Landcare Research): Concentrations and species of Cu, Zn and Ni in soil solution in response to anthropogenic impacts.


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