Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox - Communications of the Division -

Original Contributions

Bioaccumulation in Organisms at a Dredged Material Disposal Site in the German Bight (North Sea)
S. Schäfer et al.
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox Vol. 18, 2012 No. 1, pp. 2 - 5 Occurrence of Selected Psychotropic Drugs in Groundwater Influenced by Sewage Farms in Berlin
U. Hass et al.
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox Vol. 18, 2012 No. 1, pp. 6 - 8

From the Division

Paul-Crutzen Award of the GDCh Division of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox Vol. 18, 2012 No. 1, p. 9

In Brief

Junior Professorship in Atmospheric Chemistry at the University of Bayreuth
Westfälische Wasser- und Umweltanalytik GmbH
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox Vol. 18, 2012 No. 1, pp. 11 - 12

Information

Event Announcements
Workshop "Relevance of Transformation Products in the Urban Water Cycle", 23–24 April 2012, Koblenz
Colloquium "LC-MS in Environmental Analysis 2012", 11–13 June 2012, Leipzig
8th Summer School of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, 26–30 June 2012, Brno, CZ
4th EuCheMS Chemistry Congress (ECC 2012), 26–30 August 2012, Prague
3rd SETAC CEE Annual Meeting, 17–19 September 2012, Krakow
International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment (ICHMET), 23–27 September 2012, Rome
SedNet Round-Table Discussion "Sediments in River Basins", 9 October 2012, Hamburg
15th Magdeburg Water Protection Seminar "The Elbe and Its Sediments", 10–11 October 2012, Hamburg News in Brief Compilation of monitoring data on environmental concentrations of pharmaceuticals (UBA Texts 66/2011)
Residues of pharmacologically active substances in foodstuffs of plant origin
Amendment of the Plant Protection Act New BMBF joint project: Risk Management of Emerging Contaminants and Pathogens in the Water Cycle (RiSKWa)
Environmental Protection and Water: Proposal to Reduce the Risks of Water Pollution
Insecticides Set to Become an Increasing Problem for Water Bodies in Europe
DFG Research Group INTERNANO – DFG FOR 1536 Vacancies PhD project Global Trace Substance Modelling (MPI Mainz)
Postdoctoral Fellow: Analysis of Organic Compounds in Alkaline Media (PSI Switzerland)
New PhD Topics at Research Centre for Toxic Compounds in the Environment (Brno, CZ)
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox Vol. 18, 2012 No. 1, pp. 17 - 25

People

New Division Members (joined between 7 September and 5 December 2011)
Birthday List, 2nd Quarter 2012
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox Vol. 18, 2012 No. 1, pp. 26 - 27

Published by the Division of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology of the German Chemical Society
ISSN: 1618-3258

Editorial staff:
Prof. Dr. Dr. Klaus Fischer
Analytical and Ecological Chemistry FB VI - Geography/ Geosciences -
Trier University Campus II, Behringstr. 21, D-54296 Trier
Tel. and fax: 0651/ 201-3617 Secretariat: 0651/ 201-2243
E-mail: fischerk@uni-trier.de
Abbreviation: Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox
Design/Technical implementation:
Dr. Matthias Kudra, Leipzig University
E-mail: kudra@uni-leipzig.de Cover image
The common whelk (Buccinum undatum), a bioindicator of North Sea sediment contamination caused by the disposal of dredged material (source: BIOCONSULT [Schuchardt & Scholle GbR])

Original contributions

Investigations into the assessment and prevention of toxic oxidation by-products during the oxidative wastewater treatment of fluoroquinolones
J. Türk et al.
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year. 2012 No. 2, pp. 28 - 31
Total dissolution and digestion methods for engineered metal nanoparticles
T. Klawonn et al.:
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year. 2012 No. 2, pp. 32 - 34

From the Division

Minutes of the Division Executive Committee meeting on 15 February 2012
Minutes of the Division Executive Committee meeting on 10 May 2012
Joint annual conference of the GDCh Division of Environmental Chemistry & Ecotoxicology and SETAC GLB, 10–13 September 2012, Leipzig
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year. 2012 No. 2, pp. 35 - 39

In brief

Institute of Sustainable Chemistry and Environmental Chemistry, University of Lüneburg
Hydrogeology and Landscape Water Balance working group at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Institute for Water Research GmbH, Schwerte
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year. 2012 No. 2, pp. 40 - 44

Information

Announcements Programme of the colloquium "LC-MS in Environmental Analysis 2012", 11–13 June 2012, Leipzig
Gordon Research Conference: Drinking Water Disinfection By-Products, 5–10 August 2012, South Hadley, USA
Workshop "Wastewater Reuse Applications and Contaminants of Emerging Concern", 13–14 September 2012, Limassol, Cyprus
Annual conference of the GDCh Division of Sustainable Chemistry: "Sustainability in Chemical Synthesis", 16–18 September 2012, Kaiserslautern
3rd International Symposium on Green Chemistry for Environment, Health and Development, 3–5 October 2012, Skiathos, Greece
7th European Conference on Pesticides and Related Organic Micropollutants in the Environment, 7–10 October 2012, Porto, Portugal
European and National Resources Forum, 12–14 November 2012, Berlin
Workshop "Reactivity and mobility of pedogenic and artificial colloids in soils", 29–30 November 2012, Freiburg
NORMAN workshop "Occurrence, Fate and Effects of Emerging Pollutants in the
Environment", 29–30 November 2012, Amsterdam News in brief New emission reductions for main air pollutants
New brochure: Impacts of air pollution on human health, ecosystems and cultural heritage
Contact allergens in toys: Health assessment of nickel and fragrances
New UBA brochure: Sewage sludge disposal in the Federal Republic of Germany
Position paper of the Soil Protection Commission at the Federal Environment Agency: Uranium inputs into agricultural soils through fertilisers
UBA Texts 84/2011 published: Application of bioassays to characterise exposure pathways for environmental hormones from plastics
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year. 2012 No. 2, pp. 50 - 54

Personal news

New Division members (joined between 05 December 2011 and 08 May 2012)
Birthday list, 3rd quarter 2012
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year. 2012 No. 1, pp. 55 - 56

Published by the Division of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology of the German Chemical Society
ISSN: 1618-3258

Editorial staff:
Prof. Dr. Dr. Klaus Fischer
Analytical and Ecological Chemistry FB VI - Geography/ Geosciences -
University of Trier Campus II, Behringstr. 21, D-54296 Trier
Tel. and fax: 0651/ 201-3617 Secretariat: 0651/ 201-2243
E-mail: fischerk@uni-trier.de
Abbreviation: Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox
Design/ Technical implementation:
Dr. Matthias Kudra, Leipzig University
E-mail: kudra@uni-leipzig.de Cover image
Air pollution caused by industrial emissions (source: Press Release UNECE Air Pollution Convention, 4.05.2012)

Original Contributions

Investigation of the transformation of organic micropollutants in biological wastewater treatment – Analytical and experimental concepts and challenges
A. Wick, T.A. Ternes
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 3, pp. 58 - 61
Behaviour of nanoparticles in wastewater treatment plants
M. Maier et al.
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 3, pp. 62 - 65
Online sensor system for monitoring water quality with regard to organic compounds
O. Happel et al.
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 3, pp. 66 - 69

Division Contributions in ESEU

Primary NO₂ emissions and their impact on air quality in traffic environments
in Germany (Abstract)
Kurtenbach, R. et al.
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 3, p. 70 Does spatial auto-correlation call for a revision of latest heavy metal and nitrogen deposition maps?
Schröder, W. et al.
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 3, p. 70

From the Division

The Division’s webpages in the new GDCh design
Programme of the annual conference of SETAC GLB and the GDCh Division for environmental chemistry & ecotoxicology, 10–13 September 2012, Leipzig
Invitation to the Division General Assembly
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 3, pp. 71 - 74

Briefly Introduced

Analytical research group at the Chair of Urban Water Management at TU Munich
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 3, p. 75

Information

Events 4th International Workshop on Per- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances – PFAS, 7–9 November 2012, Idstein
9th Langenau Water Forum (LWF), 12–13 November 2012
5th Water Contamination Emergencies: managing the threats, 19–21 November 2012, Mühlheim a. d. Ruhr
Workshop "Reactivity and Mobility of Pedogenic and Artificial Colloids in Soils", 29–30 November 2012, Freiburg
Congress BIO-raffiniert VII – Towards a raw materials and energy transition, 20–21 February 2013, Oberhausen
Micropol & Ecohazard, 16–20 June 2013, Zurich News in Brief European Environment Agency (EEA) Technical Report No 6/2012 on Atmospheric Pollutants
DFG press release No. 37 of 20 July 2012: MAK value for chlorinated biphenyls lowered
UBA background report: Air quality 2011 – particulate matter episodes shaped the picture
UBA Texts 09/2012 published: Strategies for reducing particulate matter pollution: PAREST final report
BfR Opinion No. 030/2012 of 31 May 2012: Health assessment of 1,3-dimethylamylamine (DMAA)
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 3, pp. 76 - 83

Personalia

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Reemtsma gives inaugural lecture at Leipzig University
New Division members (joined from 08.05.2012 to 24.08.2012)
Birthday list for the 4th quarter of 2012
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 3, pp. 84 - 85

Published by the Division of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology of the German Chemical Society
ISSN: 1618-3258

Editorial staff:
Prof. Dr. Dr. Klaus Fischer
Analytical and Ecological Chemistry FB VI – Geography/ Geosciences –
University of Trier Campus II, Behringstr. 21, D-54296 Trier
Tel. and fax: 0651/ 201-3617 Secretariat: 0651/ 201-2243
E-mail: fischerk@uni-trier.de
Abbreviation: Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox
Design/ Technical implementation:
Dr. Matthias Kudra, Leipzig University
E-mail: kudra@uni-leipzig.de Cover image
Laboratory wastewater treatment plant of the Bavarian Environment Agency in Munich for investigating the behaviour
of nanoparticles in wastewater (Source: M. Maier, Bavarian Environment Agency, Munich)

Original Articles

Floodsearch: Flooding on a Laboratory Scale
Brinkmann, M. et al.:S. Schäfer et al.
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year. 2012 No. 4, pp. 88 - 91
New Antibiotics in the Environment – Initial Results on their Ecotoxicological Effects in the Water Cycle
Brünsing. J. et al.:
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year. 2012 No. 4, pp. 92 - 95

Division Contributions in ESEU

A new method to determine the anaerobic degradability of surfactants: the AnBUSDiC test
Bendt, Th. ; Willing, A.
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year. 2012 No. 4, p. 95

From the Division

Joint annual conference of SETAC-GLB and the GDCh Division of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, 10–13 September 2012 – a brief report
Minutes of the General Assembly on 12 September 2012 held as part of the annual conference in Leipzig
Minutes of the Executive Board meeting on 10 September 2012 held as part of the annual conference in Leipzig
2011 / 2012 annual report of the working group on chemical assessment
2011/12 annual report of the working group on environmental monitoring
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year. 2012 No. 4, pp. 96 - 103

Briefly Introduced

Düring working group at the Institute of Soil Science and Soil Conservation at Justus Liebig University Gießen
Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine ITEM
RLP AgroScience GmbH – Institute for Agroecology, Environmental Chemistry Department
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year. 2012 No. 4, pp. 104 - 108

Information

Event Announcements
703rd DECHEMA Colloquium: Trace Substances in the Water Cycle, 7 February 2013, Frankfurt am Main
IsoG 2013 Environmental Geochemistry, 13–15 March 2013, Warsaw
2nd Int. Symposium on Green Chemistry, Renewable Carbon and Eco-Efficient Processes 21–24 May 2013, La Rochelle, France
4th Int. Conference on Environmental Management, Engineering, Planning, and Economics (CEMEPE 2013) and SECOTOX Meeting, 24–28 June 2013, Mykonos
ICMGP - International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, 27 July–2 August 2013, Edinburgh
Gordon Research Conference: Atmospheric Chemistry, 28 July–2 August 2013, West Dover, VT,USA Conference Report UBA/NORMAN Workshop “Environmental Monitoring of Biocides in Europe” News in Brief Arsenic in Food
Characterisation of the Nanoscale Properties of Chemical Substances under REACH
UBA Texts 37/2012: Uranium in Soil and Water
UBA Texts 38/2012: Determination of Substance-Related Environmental Quality Criteria
EEA Press Release: Many Europeans still exposed to harmful air pollutants
UBA Press Information No. 31/2012 of 14 September 2012
UBA Background Paper on PAHs Book Review Walter Klöpffer: Behaviour and Degradation of Environmental Chemicals. 2nd edition 2012. Wiley-VCH
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year. 2012 No. 4, pp. 113 - 118

Personal News

Birthday List, 1st Quarter 2013
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year. 2012 No. 4, p. 119

Published by the Division of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology of the German Chemical Society
ISSN: 1618-3258

Editorial staff:
Prof. Dr. Dr. Klaus Fischer
Analytical and Ecological Chemistry, Department VI – Geography/ Geosciences –
Trier University Campus II, Behringstr. 21, D-54296 Trier
Tel. and fax: 0651/ 201-3617 Secretariat: 0651/ 201-2243
E-mail: fischerk@uni-trier.de
Abbreviation: Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox
Design/ Technical implementation:
Dr. Matthias Kudra, Leipzig University
E-mail: kudra@uni-leipzig.de Cover image
Presentation of the Paul Crutzen Prize at the Annual Conference in Leipzig to Manabu Shiraiwa by the Chair of the Division, Prof. Andreas Schäffer