The Mercury air transport and fate research Partnership Area held its annual meeting on Friday 6 October 2023, in an online setting.
Final Agenda
Open meeting (5 minutes)
- Celia Chen, Research Professor, Dartmouth College
- David Evers, Executive Director, Biodiversity Research Institute
- Nicola Pirrone, Research Director of the National Research Council of Italy
Effectiveness Evaluation and the OESG meeting (10 minutes each, 20 minutes total)
- Terry Keating, Senior Scientist, USEPA Office of Research and Development
- Eisaku Toda, Senior Programme Officer, Secretariat of the Minamata Convention on Mercury
OESG Global Datasets and modeling (8 minutes each, discussion 15 minutes at the end; 50 minutes
total)
- Air – Sandy Steffen, Senior Mercury Researcher, Environment and Climate Change Canada
- Human – Milena Horvat, Head, Department of Environmental Sciences, Jožef Stefan Institute
- Biota – Olha Furman, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, Australian Government
- Other matrices – Sylvain Bouchet, Researcher, ETH Zürich
- Modeling – Ashu Dastoor, Research Scientist, Environment and Climate Change Canada
Global Data platforms (10 minutes total)
Integration of Biodiversity with Minamata (10 minutes)
Upcoming special issues on Hg (15 minutes total)
- Ambio – Celia Chen (4 minutes)
- ICMGP - Joy Leaner/Lynwill Martin; (10 minutes)
- Ecotoxicology Special Issue – Dave Evers (4 minutes)
Planning for COP5 (5 minutes)
- COP 5 Side Events and Knowledge Labs – Dave Evers
Close meeting (5 minutes)
For any question, please contact the Partnership Area co-leads: nicola.pirrone@iia.cnr.it, david.evers@briloon.org and celia.y.chen@dartmouth.edu or the Partnership Secretariat at metals@un.org