289 Symposium--From Sorption to Bioavailability



S11 Soils & Environmental Quality
Tuesday, October 18, 2011: 8:00 AM-12:15 PM
Henry Gonzalez Convention Center, Room 210B
Organizers:
Rai Kookana and Jay Gan
Presiders:
Rai Kookana and Jay Gan
8:05 AM
What Controls the Bioavailability of Contaminants In Soil?.
Joseph J. Pignatello, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
8:30 AM
Preferential Sites In Soil Organic Matter Probed with Stable Nitroxyl Free Radicals.
Charisma Lattao, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station; Yuan Li, Old Dominion University; Joseph Pignatello, Connecticut Agric. Expt. Stn.; Jingdong Mao, Old Dominion University; Mark Chappell, Environmental Laboratory, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
9:20 AM
Adsorption of Organic Compounds by Engineered Carbon Nanoparticles.
Kun Yang, University of Massachusetts; Baoshan Xing, University of Massachusetts
9:45 AM
10:00 AM
Availability of Sorbed Organic Contaminants to Microorganisms.
Yucheng Feng, Auburn University; Stephen A. Boyd, Michigan State University
10:25 AM
Linking Soil Sorption to Plant Uptake of the Systemic Insecticide Imidacloprid In Viticulture.
Clinton Williams, USDA-ARS; Steve Castle, USDA-ARS; Shad Nelson, Texas A&M University-Kingsville; Nilima Prabhaker, University of California, Riverside
11:15 AM
Bioavailability of Colloidal Organic Carbon Bound Estrogen.
Katrin B. Chambers, North Dakota State University; Francis M. Casey, North Dakota State University; Heldur Hakk, USDA-ARS; Nancy W. Shappell, USDA-ARS; Thomas M. DeSutter, North Dakota State University; Eakalak khan, North Dakota State University
11:40 AM
Biomimetic Methods to Evaluate Bioavailability.
Jay (Jianying) Gan, University of California; Lizzy Cui, University of California
12:00 PM
12:15 PM