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How to travel to the
City of Prague from the Ruzyne Airport
Conference side event
Towards International Cooperation on Hemispheric Pollution
Preliminary program
of oral presentations
Guidelines for oral
and poster presentations
POST-CONFERENCE FIELD TRIP TO THE BAVARIAN
FOREST WAS CANCELLED.
HOWEVER IT IS POSSIBLE TO VISIT
THE BAVARIAN FOREST IN GERMANY
AS A NEW ONE-DAY MID-CONFERENCE FIELD TRIP
ON WEDNESDAY.
THIS FIELD TRIP DOES NOT REQUIRE
ANY ADDITIONAL PAYMENT.
The
Acid Rain 2005 Conference Executive Committee appreciates very much all
abstracts submitted up to now.
As of today, we have
gathered approximately 650 abstracts for the meeting. If you have not submitted
your abstract yet, you may do so until March 25th.
At this point, we are mainly seeking
papers for poster presentation.
The participants will be
notified on acceptance of their contributions before April 15, 2005.
The date anticipated earlier had to be postponed due to the technical reasons.
The Conference Executive Committee would like to apologize for any inconvenience
this might cause.
Preliminary
time schedule for plenary talks, individual oral
and poster sessions, as well as names of the session
chairs on the conference website.
The International Conference on Acid Deposition, Acid Rain
2005, will be the seventh in a series on the effects of air pollution and
acidification of ecosystems. These conferences have been held every five years
since 1975.
Enormous environmental progress has been made since 1970 towards a cleaner
atmosphere, with sharply reduced atmospheric emissions of a number of pollutants,
especially sulfur, in Europe and North America. Considerable insight has been
gained about the history and modern extent of atmospheric pollution through
monitoring and various natural archives. The long-term effects of acid rain on
terrestrial and aquatic systems are also better understood.
However, many questions remain to be answered. The recover of surface water and,
especially, the recovery of forests and forest soils, have not progressed as
expected, because of confounding influences
related to climate change, non-acidic pollutants and
continuation of nitrogen emissions. New regions of the globe, particularly in
Asia, are experiencing increasing levels of industrial emissions which can
significantly influence soils and
waters in the near future.
Acid Rain 2005 marks a transition from “Acid Rain” being viewed somewhat in
isolation, to its being seen as integrally linked with climate change, land use,
biodiversity, and human health.
Second circular -
acidrain2005_2.pdf
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