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Conference Venue
The conference will be held on the Technion Campus in conference halls of Faculty of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Grand Water Research Institute, both located in very high proximity. Haifa is the northern port of Israel, located 80 km from Tel-Aviv and 145 km from Jerusalem. With nearly 1900 rooms and the new Haifa International Exhibition & Convention Center, Haifa offers a picturesque setting for conventions. The city sitting atop the slopes of Mount Carmel overlooks a breathtaking harbor with steeply-terraced urban landscapes, nature reserves, cultivated gardens, and religious sites of historic significance and incomparable beauty. The Bahai Shrine and Gardens on Mount Carmel features a gold-domed shrine to Bab, the religion´s prophet, and extensive lush and meticulously maintained gardens that employ 100 full-time gardeners. The Cave of Elijah is sacred to Jews, Christians and Muslims and is enshrined by a domed chapel with an altar directly overhead. The German Colony, a historic area of town that was designed and built by German Templar Knights in the 19th century, is now home to trendy eateries and cafes. The Haifa National Museum of Science features a variety of interactive displays like the Hall of Mirrors and the Hall of Darkness, where holographic images of the guests are produced on the wall. The Carmel National Park extends from the city into the surrounding mountains and offers a variety of hiking, biking and horseback riding opportunities.
Conference Theme: Quality Indicators of Water and Wastewater Industries in Geographical Scarce Water Areas around the Globe
Conference Program: The conference will include plenary keynote lectures, oral and poster presentations, and roundtable discussions. The main scientific topics to be included:
1. Indicators of Changes in Various Environments
2. Bioindicators of Holocene Ecological Change (including Wetland, Estuary, Grassland, Arid and Alpine Environments)
3. Indicators of Changes in the Ocean Environment
4. Indicators for Monitoring Groundwater and Hydraulic Engineering
5. Indicators of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) & Metal Pollutants
6. Indicators of Changes in Urban and Indoor Environmental Quality
7. Indicators of Environmental Radiation
8. Indicators of Environmental Disease
9. Molecular and Cellular Biomarkers
10. Microbial Indicators & Geomicrobiology
11. Innovative Indicators (such as Archaeological Deposits, Biological Aerosols, or other Physical and Chemical Indicators)
12. Application of Indicators to Environmental Monitoring and Regulation
13. Special Topic: Environmental Pollution and Water Scarcity
14. Roundtable Discussion：Global Indicators of water pollution related to climate changes
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Language: Conference language will be English.
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Themes
The 19th International Conference on Environmental Indicators will be held on 11-14 of September 2011 at Technion (Israel Institute of Technology), Haifa, Israel. Abstracts are welcomed for all aspects of environmental indicators research relevant to environmental protection, human health and conservation of our globe. The conference program will include, but is not limited to anthropogenic pollution, public health, disease, toxicity, ecotoxicity, remediation, biochemistry, molecular biology, biodiversity, chemical analysis, monitoring techniques, and modeling. Aspects specific to Middle East and Mediterranean basin (but also relevant to many other world's geographical areas) such as water scarcity, pollution, desalination and recycling are welcome.
Major Research Areas
Israel, like its neighbor countries in the Middle East, has scarce water resources. This region faces and will face serious problems of water scarcity, pollution and increasing population. This is an unique opportunity to meet together and have workshops on these problems with worldwide aspects. Beside International attendance, Middle East countries are welcome to attend this conference!
Water Treatment
Desalination
Treatment and reuse of wastewater
Preservation of water quality and quantity in the sources
Hydrology – quantity and quality
Water and environmental microbiology
Management in and of the urban water sector
Water resources management and policy
Programs
Conference Field Trips:
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Registration Deadline: August 1, 2011
Conference attendees that have been booked at Dan Gardens Hotel *** are now upgraded to Dan Panorama Hotel *** (for the same price). Please ask the taxi driver to take you to this hotel.
The registration fee is $350 (USD) for regular participants and $ 200 (USD) for students and participants from developing countries, including conference reception and banquet, social drinks, refreshments. All meals during the conference will be provided by restaurant at reasonable prices ($ 7-10) with additional price for special menus.
Click to download the registration forms: Registration Form and Registration addendum
Click to download the invoice: Invoice
Registration forms should be sent by E-Mail to isei2011@technion.ac.il
Bank account: Bank account
Directions to Haifa: Directions
Relevant only for Saturday (10th of September): The best transportation from Ben-Gurion Airport to Haifa on the 10th of September (Saturday) is by taxi. These taxies take 10 persons each, so the price is affordable. You should ask the driver to bring you to your hotel. For the 11th and 12th you can use one of the following transportation means: bus, taxi or train.
Abstract Submission Deadline: July 31, 2011
A 2-page extended abstract for oral or poster presentation needs to be submitted to cvrrobi@tx.technion.ac.il before July 31, 2011. Accepted abstracts will be published in the peer-reviewed proceedings of the Journal of Environmental Indicators.
Posters size should be: 120 cm (Height) and 60-80 cm (Wide).
Oral presenters: please bring your files on a disk-on-key (USB drive) or on a readable disk in order to load these files to conference computers.
Local Organizing Committee
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Udi Zukerman |
Rafael Semiat |
Abid Nasser |
International Organizing Committee
Robert Armon, Israel, Chair Jaroslav Boháč, Czech Republic Nancy Denslow, USA Osmo Hänninen, Finland Diane Henshel, USA Dominic Hodgson, UK Guibin Jiang, China Sergei Kholodkevich, Russia Roland Klein, Germany Sergei Kotelevtsev, Russia |
Vera Tereknova, Russia Steve LeGore, USA Zhi-Qing Lin, USA Jim Newman, USA Odipo Osano, Kenya Nicholas Ralston, USA Carla Ralston, USA Paul W. Sammarco, USA John P. Smol, Canada Kevin Strychar, USA |
Click to download the following tour information: Tours
Click to download the full conference schedule: Schedule
Click to download the list of participants: Participants
September 13th (Tuesday): Tour to Jerusalem and Dead Sea 07:30 - 19:30.
September 14th (Wednesday): Tours to Nazareth and Golan Heights or Acre and Zipori 07:30 - 19:30.
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September 11th (Sunday) |
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September 12th |
08.00 - 09.00 |
Registration |
08.00 - 09.00 |
Registration |
09.00 - 09.40 |
Opening Ceremony: Greetings |
09.00 - 09.40 |
Guest lecture: Prof. Em. Joan Jofre (Spain) |
09.40 - 10.30 |
Guest Lecture: Prof. Maria Gavrilescu (Romania): " Biosorption-an alternative for contaminant removal from the environment" |
09.40 - 10.30 |
Guest Lecture: Prof. Dr. Bernd Sures (Germany) : " Environmental Parasitology: the role of parasites in ecotoxicology" |
10.30 - 11.00 |
Coffee break |
10.30 - 11.00 |
Coffee break |
11.00 - 11.40 |
Guest Lecture: Prof. Rafael Semiat (Israel): "Environmental issues in Desalination" |
11.00 - 11.20 |
The heart function of Mytilus edulis as indicator of changes in the ocean environment (Igor Bakhmet, Russia) |
11.40 - 12.00 |
Environmental indicator's development in Lithuanian protected areas (Lazdinis Imantas, Lithuania) |
11.20 - 11.40 |
Standardization of eggs collecting from aquatic birds-a neglected but crucial part of biomonitoring (Roland Klein, Germany) |
12.00 - 12.20 |
An indicator to assess the influence of vegetation change on hydrological flow partitioning at the basin scale (Fernando Jaramillo, Sweden) |
11.40 - 12.00 |
Water security event in water distribution systems through water quality indicators (Avi Ostfeld, Israel) |
12.20 - 12.40 |
Comparing microbial pathogens and fecal indicator bacteria in effluent irrigated soil and crops (Ezra Orlofsky, Israel) |
12.00 - 12.20 |
Diatoms as indicators of the environmental conditions in Doon valley (Rachna Nautiyal, India) |
12.40 - 13.00 |
Recreational services of ecosystems-the use of multicriteria analysis (Giani Gradinaru, Romania) |
12.20 - 12.40 |
A New Bioassay Tool Diagnoses Stress Caused in the Vicinity of Radio-Frequency Irradiating Antennas (Edna Ben-Izhak Monselis, Israel) |
13.00 - 14.30 |
Lunch |
12.40 - 13.00 |
State of the environment in Israel: indicators, data and trends, 2010 (Orna Metzner, Israel) |
14.30 - 14.50 |
Criteria for socio-economic valuation and prioritization of protected ecosystems (Risdzkiene Vitalija, Lithuania) |
13.00 - 13.20 |
The influence of landscape composition on white stork nest density (Jerzy Solon, Poland) |
14.50 - 15.10 |
Review of Air Quality Issues in Kenya and the risk-based development of health based indicators for assessing improvement of air quality in Kenya (Diane Henschel, USA ) |
13.20 - 14.30 |
Lunch |
15.10 - 15.30 |
Assessment and regulation of environmental quality (Olga Esina, Russia) |
14.30 - 14.50 |
Cancer following occupational exposures to levels of electromagnetic non-ionizing radiation: Should we map tissue penetration, and So What? (Yael Stein, Israel) |
15.30 - 15.50 |
Nitrification through wastewater treatment in intermittent biofilter system (Isam Sabbah, Israel ) |
14.50 - 15.10 |
Humans sense standing radio waves - recording helpful in load analysis (Osmo Hänninen, Finland) |
15.50 - 16.10 |
Final stabilization treatment on cobalt and nickel ferrites produced at ambient temperature (Ela Ofer-Rozovsky, Israel) |
15.10 - 15.30 |
Bioelectromagnetic phenomena are affected by aggregates of many radiofrequency photons (Michael Peleg, Israel) |
16.10 - 16.30 |
Coffee break |
15.30 - 15.50 |
Mechanism of short-term ERK activation by electromagnetic fields at |
16.30 - 16.50 |
Functional status of hepatic antioxidant system of bream Abramis brama L. from several sites of the Rybinsk reservoirs with dissimilar anthropogenic exposure (Alexei A. Morozov, Russia) |
15.50 - 16.10 |
Sustainable outlook for Israel 2030-indicators for the business as usual scenario (Valerie Brachya, Israel) |
16.50 - 17.10 |
Preferential biodegradation of aromatic hydrocarbons: an indicator of faster risk dissipation in petroleum contaminated soil (Hernando Bacosa, Japan) |
16.10 - 16.30 |
Coffee break |
17.10 - 17.30 |
Soil and topography as driving variables for plant species richness and biomass (Jerzy Solon, Poland) |
16.30 - 16.50 |
Evaluation of pathogen levels in digester effluent used for agricultural purposes in rural Nepal (Hannah Bardin, Israel) |
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Conference Gala (Technion, WRI) +Music |
16.50 - 17.10 |
Levels of BTEX Emissions at the Komtar Area in Penang, Malaysia (Wesam Ahmed Al Madhoun, Palestinian Authority) |
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17.10 - 17.30 |
MS2 coliphage as a tracer for water disinfection by UV irradiation (Abidelfatah M. Nasser, Israel) |
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17.30 - 17.50 |
Prevalence of Prostate Cancer due to the exposure of Arsenic in Bihar, India (Nath A., India) |
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17.50 - 18.10 |
Implications of Terminaria sericea(Burch) vegetation invasion to soil productivity in Western Tanzania (Fabian Mwoshezi Bagarama, Tanzania) |
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18.10 - 18.30 |
Shoreline changes in Hayle estuary, UK.(Oyedotun, Temitope D. Timothy, Nigeria) |
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18.30 - 19.30 |
ISEI President address and selection of the next conference venue (all attendants are asked to be present for vote) |
To all lecturers: please prepare your lecture on Disk-on key or a CD. Your lecture will be copied to our computer and the projection system.
Beside invited lectures (that are planned for 40 minutes) all other lectures are 20 minutes (15 minutes and 5 minutes for questions). Please keep your time in order to let others to present their result.
Invited lecturers:
-Prof. Emeritus Joan Jofre Torroella
Faculty of Microbiology
University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Formerly: Chairman (Health Related Water Microbiology Specialist Group)
International Water Association (IWA)
"Bacteriophages infecting Bacteroides as a tool for microbial source tracking"
-Prof. Maria GAVRILESCU
Department of Environmental Engineering and Management
Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Protection
“Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Romania
" Biosorption-an alternative for contaminant removal from the environment"
-Prof. Rafael Semiat (former Head of Grand Water Research Istitute)
Faculty of Chemical Engineering
Techninon, Haifa, Israel 32000
"Environmental issues in Desalination"
-Prof. Dr. Bernd Sures
Universität Duisburg-Essen
Angewandte Zoologie / Hydrobiologie
(Applied Zoology / Hydrobiology)
D-45117 Essen, Germany
"Environmental Parasitology: the role of parasites in ecotoxicology "
-Prof. Monica Butnariu
Banat's University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine from Timisoara,
Exact Sciences Department, Calea Aradului no.119,
300645 Timisoara,
Romania
"Vegetal bioindicators for soil quality.
Case Study: Influence of Cobalt on plant growth and chemical composition
of Alfalfa (Medicago sativa)"
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International Symposium on Sensing in Agriculture: http://agri-sensing.technion.ac.il/
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