East
Asia Monitor
UNU
e-Newsletter
Issue 13. April 2005
A UNU International Symposium on
"Ecosystem Impacts of POPs"
26-27 April 2005
Miracle Grand Convention
Hotel, Bangkok
April
26, 2005
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Times |
Activities |
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08:30 – 09:00 |
Participant registration and document
delivery
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09:00 – 09:30
09:30 – 09:45 |
Opening session:
Welcoming Address
Mr.Chartree
Chueyprasit, Director General, DEQP
Opening Address
Prof. Keiichiro Fuwa, Senior Advisor, UNU
Introduction
to UNU project in East Asia
Dr. Zafar Adeel, Project Manager, UNU |
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09:45 - 10:30
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Keynote Presentation:
Emerging POPs : Perfluorochemicals
and Their Ecodynamics
Dr. Kurunthachalam Kannan, Wadsworth
Center
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10:30 – 11:00
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Coffee break
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11:00 – 11:30
11:30 - 12:00
12:00 – 12:30 |
Technical Session 1: Ecosystem Impacts
of POPs
Chair:Dr. Gullaya Wattayakorn and Dr. Fukuya Iino
Biological
Effect of Persistent Organic Compounds on Birds
Dr. Masatoshi Morita, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES)
Present
Contamination Status of Polychlorinated Biphenyls and
Organochlorine
Pesticides in Human Breast Milk from Hanoi, Vietnam
Prof. Pham Hung Viet, CETASD
Concentration
of some POPs in some marine fishes of Bangladesh:
Possible
Impact on Coastal Ecosystem
Dr. Kawser Ahmed, University of Dhaka |
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12:30 – 13:45 |
Lunch
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13:45 – 14:15
14:15 – 14:45
14:45 – 15:15
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Technical Session 2: Public and Policy
concerns about ecosystem impacts of POPs
Chair: Dr. Hian Kee Lee and Dr. Huang
Yeru
Thailand & Regulation to Control
POPs
Mrs. Somsri SuwanJaras, Ministry
of Industry, Thailand
Chemical Risk : Health Aspect
Mr.Pansak Pramokchon, Ministry of
Public Health, Thailand
Japan's Efforts for
Establishing Regional POPs Monitoring Network
Mr. Yoshitoku Yoshida,
Ministry of Environment, Japan |
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15:15 – 15:45
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Coffee break
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15:45 – 16:15
16:15 – 16:45
16:45 – 17:15
17:15 – 17:45
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Presentation of Country Reports for
the UNU Project
Chair: Dr. Masatoshi Morita and Mrs. Somsri SuwanJaras
POPs OCPs in Laguna and Pangasinan River Systems
Dr. Evangeline Santiago, University
of the Philippines
Presentation of Country Report for
the UNU Project: Vietnam
Prof. Pham Hung Viet, CETASD
Presentation of Country Report for
the UNU Project: Indonesia
Dr. Arum Prajanti, SARPEDAL
Presentation of Country Report for
the UNU Project: China
Dr. Huang Yeru, Shino - Japan Friendship Center for Environmental
Protection
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18:00 – 18:30
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Poster Session
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18:30 – 20:30
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Reception
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April 27, 2005
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9:00 – 9:30
9:30 – 10:00
10:00 – 10:30
10:30 – 11:00 |
Presentation of Country Reports for
the UNU Project
Chair: Dr. Evangeline Santiago and
Dr. Arum Prajanti
Presentation of Country Report for
the UNU Project: Malaysia
Dr. Mustafa Ali Mohd, University
of Malaya
PYE
[2-(1-pyrenyl)ethyldimethysilylated silica] column HPLC and
HR-GC-
(micro) ECD in the accurate determination of toxic co-planar
PCBs
and
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs)
Dr. Jae Ryoung Oh, KORDI
Novel
Approaches to Extraction of Persistent Organic Pollutants
and
Other Contaminants from Aqueous Matrices
Dr. Hian Kee Lee, NUS
Presentation of Country Report for
the UNU Project: Thailand
Ms. Ruchaya Boonyatumanond, ERTC
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11:00 – 11:30
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Coffee break
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11:30 – 12:00
12:00
– 12:30
12:30 – 13:00 |
Technical Session 3: Evaluation of
POPs Pollution in Asia
Chair: Dr. Jae Ryoung Oh and Dr.
Mustafa Ali Mohd
POPs Pesticides in Thailand
Mr. Tawatchai Hongtrakul, Ministry
of Agriculture
New Approaches for Monitoring
of organochlorine compounds in Marine/riverine Environment
and Sediments
Dr. Babu Rajendran Ramaswamy,
Bharthidasan University at Trichirappalli,
India
Evaluation of National
Water Quality in Pakistan
Dr. Aslam Tahir, PCRWR,
Pakistan
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13:00 – 14:15
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Lunch
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14:15 – 14:45
14:45 – 15:15
15:15 – 15:45 |
Technical Session 4: Issues for Research
on POPs Pollution: Trends and Challenges
Chair: Ms. Ruchaya Boonyatumanond
and Dr. Zafar Adeel
Analysis of POPs-related Chemicals
in the Environment
Dr.Yasuyuki Shibata, NIES
Contamination of PAHs in Estuarine
and Coastal Sediments of Thailand
Dr. Gullaya Wattayakorn, Chulalongkorn
University
State of Thailand on
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants and
its implementation
Mrs. Sunee Piyapanpong, Pollution Control Department, Thailand |
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15:45 – 16:15 |
Coffee break
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16:15 – 16:45 |
Panel Discussion on POPS related
Ecosystem Impacts of POPs
Chair: Dr. Yasuyuki Shibata and Dr.
Zafar Adeel
Panelists: Dr. Kurunthachalam Kannan,
Dr. Masatoshi Morita, Dr. Gullaya Wattayakorn, Prof. Keiichiro Fuwa
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16:45 – 17:00 |
Closing Session |
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