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Soils of Urban, Industrial, Traffic, Mining and Military Areas
SUITMA 2009 New-York

SUITMA 2009 New-York
Soils of Urban, Industrial, Traffic, Mining and Military Areas
Start :	September 20 2009 (iCal)
End :	September 25 2009
City :	New York City
Country :	United States
Important dates
Submissions due :	June 30 2009

SUITMA symposiums
SUITMA 2000 Essen (Germany)
SUITMA 2003 Nancy (France)
SUITMA 2005 Cairo (Egypt)
SUITMA 2007 Nanjing (China)
SUITMA 2009 New-York (United States)
SUITMA 2011 Marrakech (Morocco)
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The SUITMA 2009 symposium is organized in New-York (United States).

Agenda

Plenary presentations

• Biogeochemical sink of elements in urban soils - Ganlin Zhang, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Black Carbon in Soils of Urban Areas and First Results from the 'SUITMA-Study' - Thomas Nehls, Technical University of Berlin
• Urban Mosaics: The Chemical, Physical, and Ecological Characteristics of Urban Soils - Richard Pouyat, US Forest Service
• Soil characteristics of gravel walks in urban areas and their relationship to adjacent soils - Wolfgang Burghardt, University Duisburg Essen, Fb. Biology and Geography
• Urban soil quality: data and tools from a European experience - Franco Ajmone-Marsan, University of Torino
• Pedology, the Law and Urban Soils in NSW, Australia - Pamela Hazelton, University of Technology, Sydney
• Balancing Economic Value and food security in Dakar lands occupation - Rokhaya D. Fall, National Institute of Pedology - Senegal
• SoilArt: Introducing a Genre - Gerd Wessolek, Technical University of Berlin
• Ecological restoration in Pennsylvania Avenue and Fountain Avenue inactive landfills - Kaled Alamarie, New-York City DEP

Theme : Urban Hydrology Session

• Integrating manufactured soils and green wall substratum, aquifers, and native vegetated landscape in an industrial landscape on an urban estuary: the Bronx River - Paul Mankiewicz, Gaia Institute
• Evaluation of the Stormwater Capture Potential of New York City BMPs - Kim DiGiovanni, Drexel University
• Assessments of spatial-temporal variations in phosphorus pools and mineralization in the Bronx River bed sediments - Jingyu Wang, Herbert Lehman College
• Improving Nutrient Management in Lawn and Gardens to Protect Water Quality - Hailin Zhang, Oklahoma State University
• Estimability analysis of hydraulic properties parameters from measurements at a bare field lysimeter: optimization and validation - Marie-Odile Simonnot, LSGC (Nancy University, INPL-CNRS)

Theme :

• Historic Fill in NYC: History and Environmental Management Methods - Dan Walsh, NYC Office of Environmental Remediation
• Healthy Soils, Healthy Communities: Assessing and Addressing Contaminants in Urban Soil, Hannah Shayler, Cornell University
• Heavy Metal Contamination in New York City Garden Soils, Zhongqi Cheng, Brooklyn College
• Contamination characteristics of urban soils: a statistical analysis of soil survey data from Berlin, Germany, Beate Mekiffer, Technical University of Berlin
• The ecological-geochemical assessment of urban soils in industrial centres of Mongolia, Natalia Kosheleva, Moscow State University
• Spatial patterns of urban soil pollution in metropolitan Lagos, Peter Elias, University of Lagos
• Impacts of land-use activities on trace metals distributions in urban soils: scenario from a developing country, Moshood Tijani, University of Ibadan
• PAH and heavy metal transport in soils: from laboratory tests to field scale experiments, Marie-Odile Simonnot, LSGC (Nancy University, INPL-CNRS)
• Feasibility study on phytoextraction of heavy metals in sludge fields derived from lake dredging nearby Hanover, Germany, Helmut Meuser, University of Applied Sciences, Osnabrueck
• Arsenic stability and mobilization in soil at an amenity grassland overlying chemical waste (St. Helens, UK), William Hartley, Liverpool John Moores University
• Environmental impact and evolution of treated industrial soils: in situ lysimetric risk assessment, Stéphanie Ouvrard, Nancy University, INPL-INRA
• Optimizing the thickness of mineral soil deposits on fly ash and coal gangue for agricultural reclamation - conceptual approach and preliminary results from Huainan (China), Lutz Makowsky, University of Applied Sciences, Osnabrueck
• Evaluation of pollutant transfer from a BOF steel slag used in road construction, Michel Legret, Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées

Theme : Soil Carbon & Land Use Session

• Effects of land use and vegetation cover on soil temperature in urban ecosystem, Yulia Savva, Johns Hopkins University
• Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Hudson Valley, New York: An Urban-Rural Pilot Study, Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA - Goddard Institute for Space Studies
• Carbon in urban soils: three amendments to enhance sequestration, Luke Beesley, Liverpool John Moores University
• Carbon Sequestration in Forest Soils Disturbed By Coal Mining and Urban Land Use in Ohio, Klaus Lorenz, Ohio State University

Theme: Technosols Session

• How much human-made material for a Technosol?, Christophe Schwartz, Nancy University, INPL-INRA
• Properties and genesis of Ekranic Technosols of Torun airport, Przemyslaw Charzynski, Nicolaus Copernicus University
• The initial composition of waste constructed Technosols can affect the survival and behaviour of anecic earthworms (Lumbricus terrestris), Benjamin Pey, Nancy University, INPL-INRA
• Phytoavailability of metals explained by physical weathering of technic materials in Technosols, Christophe Schwartz, Nancy University, INPL-INRA

Theme : Urban Soil Survey Session

• Soil Survey Data: Applications for watershed, municipal, and storm water management planning, Lisa Krall, USDA-NRCS Connecticut
• Soil Mapping and Interpretations; Essex County Soil Survey, New Jersey, Edwin Muñiz, USDA-NRCS New Jersey
• Application of U.S. Soil Survey Geochemical Characterization Data to Urban Areas, Mike Wilson, USDA-NRCS-National Soil Survey Center
• The Bronx River Watershed Soil Survey, Richard K. Shaw, NRCS New York

Some posters

• Physiological parameters and secondary metabolites in dandelion (Taraxacum officinale Weber) grown on contaminated urban solid runoff, by Francesca Bretzel, Stefano Benvenuti, Elena Frangioni, Laura Pistelli
• Urban soil influence on the traits of Mediterranean native herbaceous species, by Francesca Bretzel, Beatrice Pezzarossa, Fernando Malorgio
• Promoting environmental awareness by recycling of organic wastes in primary schools, by Francesca Bretzel, Enzo Sparvoli

See also

• The official website of SUITMA 2009
• The official SUITMA 2009 Conference Program, Abstracts, and Participant Directory (pdf, 8.2MB)
• The official SUITMA 2009 Field Tour Guide (pdf, 7.9MB)