Scientific Organisers Adriana Miele (UOC)
Beatrice Ruta (UOC)
Hiram Castillo Michel, ESRF
Blanche Collin, CEREGE, CNRS & Univ. Aix-Marseille
Alejandro Fernandez-Martinez, ISTerre, CNRS & Univ. Grenoble France
Jean-Louis Hazemann, Institut Néel & ESRF
Clément Levard, CEREGE, CNRS & Univ. Aix-Marseille
Emmanuelle Montarges-Pelletier, CNRS & Université de Lorraine
Géraldine Sarret, ISTerre, CNRS & Univ. Grenoble France
Keynote Speakers Astrid Avellan, Geosciences Environnement Toulouse
Chris Jacobsen, Northwestern University
Sang Soo Lee, Argonne National Laboratory
Administrative Assistant Eleanor Ryan
Contact udm1-um23@esrf.fr
Venue IBS Seminar Room

 

Programme

 

AIM & SCOPE

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Our world faces a major climatic and environmental crisis: the increase in atmospheric CO2 levels, the presence of legacy metallic and organic pollutants, and emerging contaminants are destabilizing soils and ecosystems and putting water resources at risk. The development of new technologies for renewable, recyclable and cleaner energy sources is accompanied by an increase of mining activities and by increasing needs of certain critical materials, leading to new environmental problems.

In view of these challenges, the scientific community in the environmental sciences has been very active in articulating responses to understand the fundamental interactions of pollutants with the different environmental compartments: soil, water, living organisms and the atmosphere, formulating diagnostics and proposing solutions. This UDM is timely: synchrotron light is part of the answer. New developments at the ESRF allow chemical speciation and imaging studies with unprecedented energy and spatial resolution, bridging together multiple spatial scales that allow the development of holistic models to understand the environmental cycle of critical metals and pollutants.

We welcome studies focusing on chemical and physical investigations of environmental pollutants, contaminants and critical metals, making use of synchrotron imaging, spectroscopy and scattering techniques, at different spatial scales from the molecular to the meso-scale, in water-soil-biota-atmospheric environments.