Mercury air transport and fate research Partnership Area - 2023 Meeting

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)

• GEO-GOS4M Platform contribution to the MCM – Nicola Pirrone-OESG Europe;

Integration of Biodiversity with Minamata (10 minutes)

• Dave Evers

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