Institute Seminar: Chiral chemicals as tracers of sources and global biogeochemical processes
Date: 29th of August,10:00-11:00 Place: Niels Bohr Auditorium, Roskilde Terry Bidleman, Environment Canada, University of Toronto, Umeå University
22.08.2011
Terry Bidleman has been working since 1973 on the long range transports of organic micro-pollutants. He has published over 150 papers on this issue. One recent focus of his work is using enantioselectivity (discrimination between R/S or D/L enantiomers of chemicals) for processes studies in ecosystems. Enantiomeric excess normally results from biodegradation and can be measured with extreme precision (SD < 1%) in environmental samples. This makes enantiomeric profiles of chemicals useful markers ofphase transition processes; e.g. water-air and soil-air exchange. Terry Bidleman has kindly agreed to give this talk at a seminar in the context of the PhD course “priority pollutants transformation products and processes in the environment” at campus Roskilde.
For organizing meetings and discussions with Terry on this issue please contact: Kai Bester (Department of Environmental Science) kb@dmu.dk