EIT Raw Materials Estonia: PICO session: SSS9.18/HS12.9 - Geosciences in industrially affected environments – challenges and multidisciplinary approaches, #EGU, @EuroGeosciences

Brandenburg University of Technology, Chair of Geopedology and Landscape Development and BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Lehrstuhl für Hydrologie und Wasserressourcenbewirtschaftung and Department of Mining of Tallinn University of Technology organized PICO session: SSS9.18/HS12.9 - Geosciences in industrially affected environments – challenges and multidisciplinary approaches

From European Geosciences Union General Assembly 11...19.04.2015

In the past years, the anthropogenic alteration of the environment has achieved increasing attention due to its dramatically growing negative impact on ecosystems, which include rising emissions and wastes, climate change, loss of natural resources and biodiversity, planning for devastated landscape rehabilitation etc. Because of the nature of the global environment, industrial pollution is never limited to industrial nations. Furthermore, close and complex interrelations between the different elements of the ecosystems require interdisciplinary understanding and activities (cooperation) in order to ensure successful remediation and reclamation of industrially affected sites including extractive, manufacturing and service sectors. Industrially altered ecosystems are a persisting problem, which is being faced by society, calling for remediation driven by science, engineering and regulatory authorities. Frequently, the solution to this problem needs a multidisciplinary approach, which very often goes beyond the scope of specialization. Therefore, we would like to invite speakers from different backgrounds to present their work and to create an international research group for young scientists that will positively contribute to the field of ecosystems reclamation.

The session aims at multidisciplinary approaches to reduce negative anthropogenic impacts on functions and services of water and soil ecosystems, for example altered hydrological regimes and the origin and distribution of contaminants as well as their potentially toxic effects on other environmental compartments. Contributions are welcome in terms of new experimental design methods and modelling approaches to gain more process-oriented knowledge concerning reactions, retention and release of contaminants as well as remediation and restoration of affected ecosystems.

EGU2015-9980
Vertical movement of iron-cyanide complexes in soils of a former Manufactured Gas Plant site
Magdalena Sut, Frank Repmann, and Thomas Raab

EGU2015-9731
Sinks as integrative elements of the anthropogenic metabolism
Ulrich Kral and Paul H. Brunner

EGU2015-5251
Temperature and volumetric water content petrophysical relationships in municipal solid waste for the interpretation of bulk electrical resistivity data
Tamara Pilawski, Gaël Dumont, and Frédéric Nguyen

EGU2015-1728
Microbial activity and soil organic matter decay in roadside soils polluted with petroleum hydrocarbons
Larysa Mykhailova, Thomas Fischer, and Valentina Iurchenko

EGU2015-6259
Environmental Challenges Related to the Acquisition of the Trans Carpathian Wide Angle Reflection and Refraction Line
Dorina-Alina Dragut, Gehrig Schultz, Victor Mocanu, Randell Stephenson, Tomasz Janik, and Vitaly Starostenko

EGU2015-8991
Root growth, mycorrhization and physiological effects of plants growing on oil tailing sands
Katja M. Boldt-Burisch, Anne M. Naeth, Bernd Uwe Schneider, and Reinhard F. Hüttl

EGU2015-9634
Marine organic geochemistry in industrially affected coastal areas in Greece: Hydrocarbons in surface sediments
Ioannis Hatzianestis

EGU2015-13768
Prevention of sulfide oxidation in sulfide-rich waste rock
Elsa Nyström and Lena Alakangas

EGU2015-14978
In-Water Hull Cleaning & Filtration System
Dan George

EGU2015-14990
Long-term effects of deep soil loosening on root distribution and soil physical parameters in compacted lignite mine soils
Annika Badorreck, Julia Krümmelbein, and Thomas Raab

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Thank you all presenters and participants of PICO session: SSS9.18/HS12.9 - Geosciences in industrially affected environments – challenges and multidisciplinary approaches.

Magdalena Sut, Ina Pohle, Veiko Karu

Department of Mining have two presentations in EGU Conference.

This research was supported by European Social Fund’s Doctoral Studies and Internationalisation Programme DoRa, which is carried out by Foundation Archimedes.