Programme

 

 

April 26, 2005

Times

Activities

 

08:30 – 09:00

 

Participant registration and document delivery

 

 

 

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

 

 

09:45 - 10:30

 

 

10:30 – 11:00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11:00 – 11:30

 

 

 

11:30 - 12:00

 

 

 

 

 

12:00 – 12:30

 

Keynote Presentation:                                                 

Emerging POPs : Perfluorochemicals and Their Ecodynamics         

Dr. Kurunthachalam Kannan, Wadsworth Center

 

Coffee break

 

 

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

 

12:30 – 13:45

 

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

 

13:45 – 14:15

 

 

 

14:15 – 14:45

 

 

 

 

 

14:45 – 15:15

 

 

 

 

15:15 – 15:45

Technical Session 2: Public and Policy concerns about ecosystem impacts of POPs

Chair: Dr. Hian Kee Lee and Dr. Huang Yeru

 

Legal Instrument for Managing POPs Chemicals

Mrs. Somsri SuwanJarasMinistry 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

 

 

Coffee break

 

 

 

 

 

 

15:45 – 16:15

 

 

 

 

 

 

16:15 – 16:45

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

16:45 – 17:15

 

 

 

 

 

 

17:15 – 17:45

 

 

 

Presentation of Country Reports for the UNU Project

Chair: Dr. Masatoshi Morita and Mrs. Somsri SuwanJaras


Organochlorine Pesticides in Laguna /Rizal and Pangasinan River Systems in the Philippines

Dr. Evangeline Santiago, University of the Philippines

 

 

Monitoring of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in Surface Water and Sediments from Northern Areas of 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

 

18:00 – 18:30

 

 

Poster Session

 

 

18:30 – 20:30

 

 

Reception

 

 

April 27, 2005

 

 

 

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

 

11:00 – 11:30

 

Coffee break

 


 

 

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, India

 

 

Evaluation of National Water Quality in Pakistan

Dr. Aslam Tahir, PCRWR, Pakistan

 

13:00 – 14:15

 

 

Lunch

 



 

 

 

 

 

14:15 – 14:45

 

 

 

14:45 – 15:15

 

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

 

 

15:15 – 15:45

 

 

State of Thailand on Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants and its implementation
Mrs. Sunee Piyapanpong,
Pollution Control Department, Thailand

 

15:45 – 16:15

 

Coffee break

 

 

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

                                                                   

16:45 – 17:00

 

Closing Session