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Monday, 16 April 2001

Opening Session
9:15-9:25 Welcome Address by Korean Ocean Research and Development Institute (KORDI)
9:25-9:35 Welcome Address by Prof. Hyo-Gun Kim (The Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
9:35-9:50 Opening Address by Prof. Motoyuki Suzuki (Vice Rector, United Nations University, Japan)
9:50-10:00 Introduction to the UNU Costal Hydrosphere Project (Prof. Keiichiro Fuwa, United Nations University)
Keynote Address
10:00-10:45

An overview of EDC issues ( Dr. Masatoshi Morita, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan)

10:45-11:00 Coffee Break
Technical Session 1 – EDC Pollution and Emission Sources
11:00-11:30 EDC Pollution and Emission Sources (Prof. Michael Fry, University of California at Davis, USA)
11:30-12:00 EDC Pollution in the Canadian Environment (Dr. Mark McMaster, National Water Research Institute, Environment Canada)
12:00-12:30 EDC Pollution in the Korean Environment (Dr. Kyung-Hee Choi, National Institute of Environmental Research, Korea)
12:30- 14:00 Lunch
Technical Session 2 – Critical EDC Issues
14:00-14:30 European Community strategy for endocrine disrupters Dr. Birgit Van Tongelen, European Commission, Belgium
14:30-15:00 Korea’s policies to deal with EDCs Mr. Yeonsoon Ahn, Ministry of Environment, Korea
15:00-15:30 Residues in blood of schoolchildren from selected schools in the Peninsular Malaysia Dr. Mustafa Ali Mohammad, University of Malaya, Malaysia
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

Tuesday, 17 April 2001

Technical Session 3 – Status of EDC Pollution in East Asia
16:00-16:30 Country report 1 - Monitoring EDCs in the Philippines (Dr. Evangeline Santiago, University of the Philippines)
16:30-17:00 Country report 2 - Korea (Dr. Jae Ryoung Oh, KORDI, Korea)
17:00-17:30 Country report 3 - Monitoring of endocrine disrupting chemicals in the coastal hydrosphere in China (Dr. Cheng Zifen, China-Japan Friendship Center for Environmental Protection, China)
Technical Session 4 – Status of EDC Pollution in East Asia
9:00-9:30 Country report 4 - Malaysia (Dr. Mustafa Ali Mohammad, University of Malaya, Malaysia)
9:30-10:00 Country report 5 - Monitoring of some endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in the hydrosphere of Vietnam (Prof. Pham Hung Viet, Vietnam National University)
10:00-10:15 Coffee Break
10:15-10:45 Country report 6 - Singapore (Prof. Hian Kee Lee, National University of Singapore)
10:45-11:15 Country report 7 - Monitoring of persistent organochlorine pesticides and phenols in the coastal hydrosphere of Thailand (Ms. Sukanya Boonchalermkit, ERTC, Thailand)
11:15-13:00 Lunch
Technical Session 5 – Research Issues for EDC Pollution
13:00-13:30 Distribution and behavior of alkylphenols and related compounds in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area (Prof. Hideshige Takada, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan)
13:30-14:00 Analysis of phenolic pollutants in environmental samples by GC/MS utilizing fast silyl derivatization technique (Prof. Jongman Park, Konkuk University, Korea)
14:00-14:30 Feminization of fish and analysis of estrogenic compounds (Dr. Hiroaki Shiraishi, NIES, Japan)
14:30- 15:00 Activated carbon adsorption for agrochemical treatment in water (Prof. Motoyuki Suzuki, UNU, Japan)
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
Technical Session 6 – Monitoring Challenges for EDC Pollutants
15:30-16:00 EDC pollutants and its risk management in Korea Dr. Jongsei Park, LabFrontier, Korea
16:00-16:30 EDC Monitoring in the East Asian region Dr. Zafar Adeel, UNU, Japan
16:30-17:00 Open Discussion
17:00-17:20 Closing Remarks

 

 

 



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