USGS Scientists Honored at the Humic Science and Technology IX Conference

Northeastern University's Humic Acid Research Group has dedicated the Humic Science and Technology IX Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, March 22-24, 2006, to the work of U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientist Dr. Michael E. Thurman (recently retired from the USGS and now with the Universidad de Almería, Spain). In addition, USGS scientist Dr. Jerry A. Leenheer has been named honorary chair of the conference. Humic Science and Technology Conferences focus on the structures, properties, and uses of humic substances from any source. Humic substances play a significant role in the facilitated transport of toxic metals, the methylation of mercury to highly toxic methylmercury, the creation of disinfection by-products in drinking water, and the biodegradation of contaminants in ground water.

General Conference Information

• Humic Science and Technology Conference Home Page
• Abstracts due December 31, 2005

Information on Humic Substances Research at the USGS

• Comprehensive Organic Analysis of Water
• Organic Carbon Migration in Aquatic Environments
• Aqueous Crystal Growth and Dissolution Kinetics of Earth Surface Materials
• Biogeochemistry and Environmental Chemistry of Nitrogen
• Behavior of Natural Polyelectrolytes in Water
• Interactions of Mercury with Dissolved Organic Carbon in the Everglades
• Transport of Dissolved Organic Carbon, Benthic Fluxes of Metals and Nutrients
• Drinking-Water Disinfection By-Products Projects (Information on the role dissolved organic carbon has in the formation of trihalomethanes)
• Anaerobic Oxidation of Vinyl Chloride Under Humic-Acid Reducing Conditions

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