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Over the past decade, it has been increasingly recognized that human health is impacted by the natural, disturbed, and engineered geochemical environments. Understanding the geochemical processes controlling the behavior, transport, and fate of inorganics (e.g., metals, metalloids, radionuclides, mineral dusts, salts, and nutrients), organics (e.g., petroleum hydrocarbons, persistent organic pollutants, volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds, and pesticides), and atmospheric particulate matter (e.g., PM2.5) can help predict their impacts on soils, groundwater, freshwater, the oceans, and in geoengineered substrates and environments. These processes can also influence the bioaccessibility, bioavailability, and ecotoxicological state of these contaminants, and subsequently impact ecosystem and human health. This theme will focus on understanding the geochemistry of contaminants introduced into the natural and built environments by human activities, including geoengineering processes, and assessment of their risks to ecosystem and effects on human health. Special attention will be paid to the interactions between the geochemical environment and the health of humans. Topics addressed could include, but not be limited to emissions of anthropogenic and geogenic contaminants, emerging environmental contaminants, those formed during geoengineering processes, source identification and apportionment of geogenic contaminants, contaminant fate and transport, ecotoxicity and ecological risk, human exposure and health effects, remediation and intervention, and advances in analytical techniques and multi-scale modeling.
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13aF: "Isotope approaches to characterize human activities on the environment and the impacts of natural resource development"
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13aP2: "Isotope approaches to characterize human activities on the environment and the impacts of natural resource development"
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13aT1: "Isotope approaches to characterize human activities on the environment and the impacts of natural resource development"
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13bF: "Radon: geogenic sources, hazard mapping, and health risk"
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13bP1: "Radon: geogenic sources, hazard mapping, and health risk"
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13cF: "Innovative use of tracers in aquatic systems"
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13cP3: "Innovative use of tracers in aquatic systems"
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13cT1: "Innovative use of tracers in aquatic systems"
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13cT2: "Innovative use of tracers in aquatic systems"
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13dF: "Integration of experimental and field data in geochemical reactive transport models and its use for predictive models and long-term performance assessments"
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13dP3: "Integration of experimental and field data in geochemical reactive transport models and its use for predictive models and long-term performance assessments"
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13dT1: "Integration of experimental and field data in geochemical reactive transport models and its use for predictive models and long-term performance assessments"
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13dT2: "Integration of experimental and field data in geochemical reactive transport models and its use for predictive models and long-term performance assessments"
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13eF: "Probing metals and environmental surfaces with spectroscopy: Recent trends"
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13eP3: "Probing metals and environmental surfaces with spectroscopy: Recent trends"
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13eT1: "Probing metals and environmental surfaces with spectroscopy: Recent trends"
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13eT2: "Probing metals and environmental surfaces with spectroscopy: Recent trends"
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13fF: "Geochemical processes related to mined, milled, or natural metal deposits in a rapidly changing global environment"
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13fP3: "Geochemical processes related to mined, milled, or natural metal deposits in a rapidly changing global environment"
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13fT1: "Geochemical processes related to mined, milled, or natural metal deposits in a rapidly changing global environment"
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13fT2: "Geochemical processes related to mined, milled, or natural metal deposits in a rapidly changing global environment"
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13gF: "Geochemistry of arsenic in the environment: source, fate, and remediation"
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13gP3: "Geochemistry of arsenic in the environment: source, fate, and remediation"
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13gT1: "Geochemistry of arsenic in the environment: source, fate, and remediation"
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13gT2: "Geochemistry of arsenic in the environment: source, fate, and remediation"
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13hF: "Surface water, groundwater, and soil pollution: sustainable water resources management and novel reactive materials for advanced remediation processes."
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13hP4: "Surface water, groundwater, and soil pollution: sustainable water resources management and novel reactive materials for advanced remediation processes."
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13hT1: "Surface water, groundwater, and soil pollution: sustainable water resources management and novel reactive materials for advanced remediation processes."
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13hT2: "Surface water, groundwater, and soil pollution: sustainable water resources management and novel reactive materials for advanced remediation processes."
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13hT3: "Surface water, groundwater, and soil pollution: sustainable water resources management and novel reactive materials for advanced remediation processes."
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13jF: "Biogeochemical Fate of Emerging Pollutants in Environmental Media: Origin, Mobility, Reactivity, Fate and Treatment Solutions"
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13jP5: "Biogeochemical Fate of Emerging Pollutants in Environmental Media: Origin, Mobility, Reactivity, Fate and Treatment Solutions"
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13jT1: "Biogeochemical Fate of Emerging Pollutants in Environmental Media: Origin, Mobility, Reactivity, Fate and Treatment Solutions"
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13jT2: "Biogeochemical Fate of Emerging Pollutants in Environmental Media: Origin, Mobility, Reactivity, Fate and Treatment Solutions"
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13jT3: "Biogeochemical Fate of Emerging Pollutants in Environmental Media: Origin, Mobility, Reactivity, Fate and Treatment Solutions"
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13jT4: "Biogeochemical Fate of Emerging Pollutants in Environmental Media: Origin, Mobility, Reactivity, Fate and Treatment Solutions"