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Researcher Updates Funded under the European Commission Sixth Framework Programme (2002-2006), Marie Curie Actions – Human Resources and Mobility Activity Area, Research Training Networks www.aquatrain.eu Issue 4, November 2008 Edited by: Julia Leventon, ESR, JRC Contents: Researcher Updates – Page 1 PRIZES! – Page 2 Coordinator’s Letter – AquaTRAIN from Dave Polya’s perspective, page 2 Conferences and Meetings – Find out where we’ve been and where we are going, page 4 Fieldwork – The activity continues with trips to Spain, Greece, Hungary and Romania (plus, find out what a social scientist does on fieldwork), page 6 AquaTRAIN Around Europe – Our new feature! Page 10 And Finally…page 13 Researcher Updates Enoma Omoregie is planning Cristina Jimenez is trying not to get intoxicated with the ecotoxicology of arsenic Jasmin Mertens is varying pH and phosphate concentration in her batch experiment Barbara Casentini is continuing with digesting soils and leaching experiments, and hoping the end will come soon Lenny Winkel is coupling a Gas Chromatograph to an Atomic Fluorescence Spectrometer to be able to quantitatively measure Se speciation in the gas phase Naresh Rawat is enjoying his first European winter Babak Shafei is writing a paper for a special issue of ES&T Journal and enjoying working on pore scale modeling Adrien Mestrot is looking forward to analyzing the Ebro Delta samples he collected (soils, traps, pore water, surface water) Page 1 Aimee Hegan is organizing her French field trip and settling into the French way of life Helen Rowland is mostly writing her deliverable Geerke Floor is in Girona for some days before heading back to BRGM Julia Leventon is analyzing institutional networks based on shared discourse using R Chris Parsons is learning how to implement validation methods in R Claudia Cascio is moving from Ispra to Leicester and enjoying English tea on the way Prizes Jasmin Mertens, ESR based at ETHZ in Zurich was awarded a prize for her oral presentation given at CEECHE. Her talk was entitled “Arsenic contamination of groundwaters in the Tisza River Basin and treatment of well water with Al nanoclusters”. Coordinator’s Letter AquaTRAIN Researchers are thought Written by: Dave Polya of. It was great to see most of the Researchers at the 4th AquaTRAIN One of the most pleasing aspects of Workshop in Cluj-Napoca – and a big the progress of the AquaTRAIN thankyou to Calin and Cristina for Network is the increasing involvement their organisation. Doubling up with of Researchers in the management the Central and Eastern European and communication activities of the Conference on Health and the Network. For example, this Newsletter Environment (CEECHE) meant that this is edited by Julia Leventon and was a wonderful opportunity for provides a very useful, less formal everybody to show a wider audience means of communication between what excellent work is being done by Researchers and Lead Scientists as the Researchers within the AquaTRAIN well as being available to the public Network. Congratulations to Jasmin via the AquaTRAIN website Mertens for receiving a CEECHE at http://www.AquaTRAIN.eu/ . award for her outstanding Perhaps a more onerous task is the presentation. Congratulations to all one that Julia and Chris Parsons have the other Researchers who gave taken on in organizing the P2 General excellent presentations – I consistently Assembly in Ispra December received a lot of very positive 3rd/4th 2008 – it is great to have a comments about the AquaTRAIN researcher-led event and I hope the Researchers’ presentations from the experience that Julia and Chris have other delegates I spoke to. Indeed, will encourage others to do the same. one US-based delegate was very Our return to Ispra (after a very keen on offering at least one of the successful workshop in February) has Researchers a job – perhaps that been encouraged, not least of all, could be put on hold for another 24 due to the great facilities, a wonderful months, but it shows how well the working and social environment (e.g. Page 2 Geostatistics & Jazz courtesy of email addresses or Manchester.ac.uk Tomislav and friends) and the support addresses – but I think it worth of Luca Montanarella and Luis spending a little bit more time to get Rodriguez-Lado, all for which we are the more distinctive aquatrain.eu very grateful addresses, which are more reflective of the European-wide (and European- Also of vital importance to the funded) partnership this Network smooth(er) running of the Network has represents. I hope (but cannot been the work of the Researchers guarantee) that these addresses will Committee and the Committee be available by the time all Representatives, Helen Rowland and Researchers have provided Chris Julia Leventon. From as early as the Parsons with their updated Duebendorf Management Meeting in details/photos etc for the website. January 2008, Helen and Julia have been very clearly putting forward It is with some sadness that I must ideas and views on behalf of the confirm that Peter Tenscher has Researchers. These are highly valued resigned from his position. We are and many of the suggestions have currently working with Jerome Rose now been translated into practice – and Arnaud Masion at CEREGE and for example provision of long-term e- Parvez Haris at DMU to secure a resources access at The University of replacement and to see how best to Manchester to all Researchers, ensure that the Deliverable, co- irrespective of their current location. ordination of which was allocated to CEREGE and the ESR8 role, is properly Barbara Casentini is currently seeking completed. We were all very Researchers’ views on the website heartened by the Researchers and I would strongly encourage discussions regarding how to cover for everyone to respond to her requests – the temporary absence of a ESR8. again I highly value the suggestions made and the recommendations that At the risk of repeating myself, the Barbara makes will help make the quality of presentations and the website a more powerful quality of the science presented at communication tool – both amongst the Cluj-Napoca meeting was also Network Researchers and Lead very heartening. It is clear that, Scientists and also between the overall, very good progress is being Network and the outside world. At made. There are, however, a small Barbara’s suggestion, we have number of areas where we need implemented a better web-based further discussions to ensure that mechanism for viewing Network overlaps between Researchers’ deliverables (although we found it research interests are continued to be easier to do this externally to the built on in a thoughtful way to ensure Network .eu website). Also at that these overlaps are constructive Barbara’s suggestion, I am currently and beneficial – both to the receiving advice from our website Researchers and to the Network. The host on how to main focus of our Network is the procure firstname.lastname@aquatrai training of Early Stage Researchers. n.eu email addresses for all This is probably a good opportunity for Researchers – we could perhaps me to underline how important are rather more easily obtain wiki-based the Network ERs in providing Page 3 guidance to the ESRs with whom they Chris Parsons reports that the special work or whom they mentor and also session/workshop on contaminant to help make sure that there are dynamics in flooded soils was appropriate opportunities for the particularly useful and interesting. personal and academic development of ESRs in collaborative projects. At this time of year, whilst we might be thinking about the recently past Eid or Diwali or the forthcoming Christmas/New Year break, my thoughts are very much also on the shortly-to-come Mid-Term Review – this is a critically important event in the lifetime of the Network. I will be asking Researchers, Lead Scientists AquaTRAIN at Eurosoils 2008. L to R: and Work Package leaders for quite Luis Rodriguez-Lado (DG JRC), Cristina an amount of information and Jimenez (UBB), Lenny Winkel (UJF), documentation to enable us to put Adrien Mestrot (ABDN) together a robust and comprehensive Network Mid-Term Report for CEECHE, Cluj Napoca, Romania, submission to the European October 2008 Commission prior to our Mid-Term AquaTRAIN were in mass attendance Review meeting with reviewers at this conference as it was combined appointed by the Commission. with a network meeting. Most Despite this being a very busy time of researchers presented, and a full list of year for all of us, can I please ask titles can be seen below. The everybody to respond to these conference was organized by Babes requests as promptly as possible. Bolyai University in Romania, the USEPA, the US National Instituted of Well done again to all those who did Environmental Health Science and such a great job at Cluj-Napoca. the Czech Institute of Experimental Looking forward to catching up with Medicine. It was attended by everyone at Ispra! representatives from a number of US institutions, the European WHO and Best regards many academics involved in topics related to environmental health in the Dave region. The comments on AquaTRAIN presentations were all positive, and Conferences and Meetings many researchers made some useful EUROSOILS, Vienna, Austria, August contacts. The pre-conference 2008. workshops on responsible mining; A number of AquaTRAIN researchers opportunities to strengthen and lead scientists attended this collaborative research opportunities conference. Cristina Jimenez, ESR in the area; the use of new biomarkers based at Babes Bolyai University in generated by the –omic technologies Cluj Napoca presented her poster. and risk assessment; and children’s Page 4 environmental health were also well using Auxilliary Variables and Logistic attended by network representatives. Regression Modelling: Arsenic Hazard in Shallow Reducing Groundwaters. The free-time activities were greatly Adrien Mestrot et al.
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