SUITMA 2005 Cairo

SUITMA 2005 Cairo
Soils of Urban, Industrial, Traffic, Mining and Military Areas
Start :	November 19 2005 (iCal)
End :	November 21 2005
City :	Cairo
Country :	Egypt
Important dates

The SUITMA 2005 symposium was held in Cairo (Egypt).

Abstracts

Plenary presentations

• Urban soils and the European soil thematic strategy, by Winfried Blum
• Urban soils, soil sealing and soil conservation service in the soil thematic strategy of the European Commission, by Wolfgang Burghardt
• Impact of urbanization on soil quality evolution of Zhengzhou city in China, by Wu Kening, Sun Zhiying, Li Ling, Lv Qiaoling, and Fu Qiaoling

Theme : Properties of unconventional soils

• Characteristic properties of soil organic matter with technogenic input and their impact on sorption of organic pollutants, by Kerstin Abelmann, Heike Knicker, Kai Uwe Totsche, and Ingrid Kögel-Knabner
• Soil properties and metals content in three southern European cities : Ljubljana, Sevilla, and Torino , by Mattia Biasioli, Encarnacion Diaz-Barrientos, H. Grcman, Luis Madrid, Borut Vrscaj, and Franco Ajmone-Marsan
• Contribution of dust to soil formation in urban and industrial areas, by Wolfgang Burghardt and Silke Hoeke
• Heavy metal contents in soils of urban-rural gradients in Sofia region, by Vania Doichinova and Miglena Zhyanski
• Thermal and hydrological behaviour of an urban anthropic regosol with strong stagnic properties, by Thomas Latacz, Wolfgang Burghardt and Wilhelm Kuttler
• Heavy metal concentration and chemical fractions in soils of urban green space in Shenzhen city, China, by Ying Lu, Haihua Gan and Zhengjun Shi
• Specific features of the development of urban and suburban phytopedocenoses, by D.V. Moukha
• Effect of various land uses on metal status of urban soils of Seville, by E. Ruiz-Cortés, Rocio Reinoso, Encarnacion Diaz-Barrientos and Luis Madrid
• Mineralogical and chemical characteristics of aerial sediments in the greater Cairo area, Egypt, by Salah Tahoun and Mohamed E. Abdel-Rahman
• Trends of heavy metals contamination in urban soils: a scenario from Ibadan metropolis, S.W. Nigeria, by Moshood Tijani, Akinlolu F. Abimbola and Olugbenga A. Okunlola

Theme : Methodology and classification

• A deposition model of heavy metal laden dust particles on soil from multiple point industrial sources, by Rushdi M. M. El-Kilani and Mohammed Helmy Belal
• Evaluation of biological methods for monitoring urban soils, by A. V. Kurakov, M. V. Gorlenko, M. M. Umarov, D. G. Zvyagintsev and Zdenek Filip
• The TUSEC-Method for soil evaluation with regard to particularities of urban soils, by Andreas Lehmann, Susanne David and Karl Stahr
• Magnetic properties as indicator of heavy metals pollution in urban soils, by S. G. Lu, S. Q. Bai and H. D. Shan
• Monitoring, modeling geochemistry, and fate of heavy metals in a small catchment in Egypt, by Ahmed A. Melegy
• A Comparison of extracting techniques for measurement of metals in urban soils, by E. Ruiz-Cortés, Fernando Madrid, Rocio Reinoso, Encarnacion Diaz-Barrientos and Luis Madrid
• Urban soils of Bratislava in relation to their quality and environment, by Jaroslava Sobocka, Marian Jaduda and Katarina Poltarska
• Evaluation of urban soil quality for sustainable urban planning, by Borut Vrscaj, Laura Poggio, Franco Ajmone-Marsan

Theme : Industrials, traffic, and mining pollution

• The biodegradation, leaching and sequestration of phenanthrene in soil, by Samira Amellal, Arnaud Boivin, Corinne Perrin-Ganier and Michel Schiavon
• Vertical distribution of heavy metals in air over heavily polluted industrial soils in the Ruhr area, Germany, by Silke Hoeke
• Husbandry risks on agricultural soils in the industrial and mining areas of the Czech Republic, by Radim Vácha

Theme : Cycling of city fluids and solid refuse

• Use of environmentally sound waste mixtures for land application, by M. Camps Arbestain, U. Santisteban, S. Virgel, F. Macías and M. Pinto
• Confinement of highly reactive waste sulfides into mortar matrix, by Inna V. Filippova, Lev O. Filippov and Jacques Yvon
• Stabilization of residual metallic pollution of industrial polluted soils by soil reconstitution, by C. Lefort, Geoffroy Séré, Stéphanie Ouvrard, Christophe Schwartz and Jean-Louis Morel
• Ecological properties of paved urban soils, by Gerd Wessolek and Thomas Nehls

Theme : Desertification and urban expansion

• Near East land and water resources: potentials and risks, by Ghassan Hamdallah

Theme : Consumed mining and military areas

• Contributions to land resource assessment and development of landmine-affected and de-mined areas, Northwest coast, Egypt, by Fawzi Abdel-Kader and Rafaat K. Yacoub
• Remote sensing to assess changes in land vegetative cover in Saudi Arabia due to the second Gulf War, by Mohammed Hussein Bagour, Sad Al-Mahlafe, Abraham Jacob and Ahmed Fahs
• Health descriptors for remediated Brownfield soils, by Nicholas Dickinson, William Hartley, Louise Unfindell, Helen Rawlinson and Philip Putwain
• Remediation of contaminated Brownfield land through planting community woodlands, by Nicholas Dickinson, Christopher French and Philip Putwain
• Biogeochemical cycle of trace elements on a forested technosol developed on a flotation pond, by J. Muller, Louis Florentin, Christophe Schwartz and Guillaume Echevarria
• Water and contaminant fluxes in paved urban soils, by Thomas Nehls, Heiner Stoffregen and Gerd Wessolek
• Destruction and restoration of soils in the artillery shooting ranges of army areas, by Pavel Novak
• Remediation process assessment for PAHs and heavy metal simultaneous removal, by Stéphanie Ouvrard, Joëlle Fismes and Jean-Louis Morel
• Effectiveness and environmental impact of a soil reconstitution process on a degraded site, by Geoffroy Séré, Stéphanie Ouvrard, Christophe Schwartz, C. Payet, J.-C. Renat and Jean-Louis Morel
• Biomineralization : a safer environmental and industrial biofilter application, by Ashraf M. Wali and Atef Dardir
• Saline pooling dimensions-dune migration effects on anticipated developing sites, Siwa, Egypt, by Ashraf M. Wali, A. A. Abdallah and I. Kh.Khedr

Theme : Historical sites

• The buried soils of antique Tanais City, Russia, by Olga Bezuglova and Igor Morozov
• Historical sites with anthropedogenic soil horizon of high total phosphorus content, by György Füleky
• Human induced Holocene colluviation on the piedmont loess of the Qinling Mountains, northern China, by Chun Chang Huang and Jiangli Pang
• Soil organic matter composition in ancient and prehistoric paddy soils from the lower Yangtze, by Heike Knicker, Z. H. Cao, Z.Y. Hu and Ingrid Kögel-Knabner
• Mycological properties of anthropogenically transformed soils of medieval and modern urban centers, by Olga Marfenina, A. E. Ivanova and E. E. Kislova
• Soil characteristics and classification by the profile study of a Han Dynasty tomb, by Fengrong Zhang and Danfeng Sun
• Ancient soil pollution with heavy metals and isotopic evidence of the cultural layers in urban Nanjing, China, by Ganlin Zhang, Feng-Gen Yang, Wen-Jun Zhao, Yu-Guo Zhao, Jin-Ling Yang and Zi-Tong Gong

Steering committee

• Salah Tahoun, Egypt
• Wolfgang Burghardt, Germany
• Jean-Louis Morel, France

International scientific committee

• Fawzi Abdel-Kader, Egypt
• Winfried Blum, Austria
• Wolfgang Burghardt, Germany
• Atef Dardir, Egypt
• Karimat El-Sayed, Egypt
• Ghassan Hamdallah, FAO
• Selim Kapur, Turkey
• Teresa Mendizabal, Spain
• Abdel-Alim Metwally, Egypt
• Ahmet R. Mermut, Canada
• Jean-Louis Morel, France
• Franco Previtali, Italy
• Juan Puigdefabregas, Spain
• Salah Tahoun, Egypt
• Mohamed Talbi, Tunisia
• Ganlin Zhang, China

Organizing Committee

• Y. M. Abbas, Suez Canal University
• E. A. Abdel-Bary, University of El-Zagazig
• Mohamed E. Abdel-Rahman, Desert Research Center
• N.A. Atia, University of El-Zagazig
• E. A. El-Naka, University of El-Zagazig
• T. K. Ghabbour, National Research Center
• A. M. Helmy, University of El-Zagazig
• . A. Hussein, Egyptian Geological Survey and Mining Authority
• A.H. Ibrahim, University of El-Zagazig
• A.S. Metwally, University of El-Zagazig
• K. F. Mousa, University of El-Zagazig
• R. R. Shahin, University of Cairo
• A. A. Sheha, University of El-Zagazig
• K. G. Soliman, University of El-Zagazig
• Salah Tahoun, University of El-Zagazig
• Ashraf M. Wali, University of Cairo