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Editorial

New Division Board - outlook on the main areas of work for the next few years
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 17th year 2011 No. 1, pp. 1 - 2

Original contributions

Sewage treatment plants as a source of polyfluorinated compounds in the atmosphere
L. Vierke, L. Ahrens, M. Shoeib, T. Harner, W.-U. Palm, R. Ebinghaus
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 17th year 2011 No. 1, pp. 4 - 7 Bioaccumulation and metabolism studies in fish - current issues in guideline development
C. Schlechtriem, K. Hohgardt, C. Rauert
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 17th year 2011 No. 1, pp. 11-13

From the Division

New e-journal Environmental Sciences Europe (ESEU), cooperation between the Division of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology and Springer Verlag
Notes on publication in the "ESEU"
Hello ESEU - Good bye "messages"? On the future of the specialist group magazine
Overview of the environmental monitoring on investigations into 'emerging substances'
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 17th year 2011 No. 1, pp. 11-13

Brief introduction

Junior professorship "Applied Environmental Systems Analysis", University of Osnabrück
Chair for air chemistry and air pollution control at the Brandenburg Technical University (BTU) Cottbus
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 17th year 2011 No. 1, pp. 14 - 16

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Conference announcements 7th Int. SedNet Conference, April 6 - April 9, 2011, Venice
13th Workshop on Progress in Trace Metal Speciation for Environmental Analytical Chemistry, May 18-20, Pau (France)
Conference "Per- and polyfluorinated compounds and no end", May 24-25, 2011, Munich
15th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference of the ACS, June 21-23, 2011, Washington DC, USA
Enzymes in the Environment: Activity, Ecology, & Applications, July 17-21. 2011, Bad Nauheim
Status seminar "Drugs in the Environment", 7./8. September 2011, Dresden
1st Int. Conference "Wastes - Solutions, Treatments, Opportunities", September 12-14, 2011, Guimarães, Portugal
20th Chemical Colloquium of the BfG "Pollutant Dynamics in River Areas", 19./20. 09. 2011, Koblenz
BfG Colloquium "Particulate Material Flows in River Catchment Areas", 20./21. September 2011, Koblenz Conference report Report on the 26th annual conference of the Society for Minerals and Trace Elements. Brief news Environmental contaminants in food: BfR research project on the absorption of heavy metals and dioxins completed
Assessment of a possible cancer risk from nanomaterials and from nanoparticles released from products
PhD positions in the ETH-GlazioPOP-Project and EMPA / ETH-CityPOP-Project are available
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 17th year 2011 No. 1, pp. 17 - 25

Personnel

Birthday list 2nd quarter 2011
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 17th year 2011 No. 1, p. 26

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Published by the Division of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology of the German Chemical Society
ISSN: 1618-3258

Editorial staff:
Prof. Dr. Dr. Klaus Fischer
Analytical and Ecological Chemistry FB VI - Geography / Geosciences -
University of Trier Campus II, Behringstr. 21, D-54296 Trier
Tel. And Fax: 0651 / 201-3617 Secretariat: 0651 / 201-2243
Email: fischerk@uni-trier.de
Abbreviation: Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox
Design / technical implementation:
Dr. Matthias Kudra, University of Leipzig
Email: kudra@uni-leipzig.de cover photo
Measuring device for recording the PFC release from the secondary clarifier of a sewage treatment plant (source: L. Vierke)

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From the Division

Minutes of the FG board meeting on January 26th, 2011
Division Award
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 17th year 2011 No. 2, pp. 28-30

Briefly introduced

ECT Ecotoxicology GmbH
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 17th year 2011 No. 2, p. 31

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Conference announcements 3rd Int. Workshop Anthropogenic Perfluorinated Compounds, June 15-17, 2011, Amsterdam
3rd Int. Symp. On Metallomics (METALLOMICS 2011), June 15-18, 2011, Münster
10th Int. Conf. on Mercury as a Global Pollutant (ICMGP), July 24-29, 2011, Halifax, CN
Int. Conf. on Environmental Pollution and Remediation (ICEPR 2011), August 17-19, 2011, Ottawa, CN
25th Int. Applied Geochemistry Symposium 2011, August 22-26, 2011 Rovaniemi, Finland
Status seminar Drugs in the Environment, September 7-8, 2011, Dresden
EuCheMS ICCE, September 11-15, 2011, Zurich: Program information
16th Int. Symposium on Environmental Pollution and its Impact on Life in the Mediterranean Region, September 24-27, 2011, Ioannina, Greece
20th Int. Symposium on Environmental Biogeochemistry (ISEB 2011), 27.-30.09.2011, Istanbul Conference report Report from the workshop "Co-Evolution of soils and organic substances", 2.-4. March 2011, Leinsweiler bei Landau Kurznachrichten Review of European Community Strategy Concerning Mercury
UBA background information: Preliminary evaluation of the air pollution situation in 2010
The Edinburgh Declaration on Reactive Nitrogen
UBA-Texte 52/2010: Emission of nanoparticles from selected products in their life cycle
UBA texts 12/2011: Standardization of Emission Factors for the Exposure Assessment under REACH
UBA texts 18/2011: Carcinogens, mutagenic, reproductive toxicity (CMR) and other problematic substances in products
UBA press release 26/2011: Endosulfan becomes "dirty number 22"
UBA press release 27/2011: The use-by period for fire-fighting foams containing PFOS ends in June 2011
When chemicals disrupt the endocrine system - SIN List 2.0
Diploma / Master thesis topics at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research UFZ
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 17th year 2011 No. 2, pp. 32 - 46

Personnel

Prof. Dr. Klaus Günther, FZ Jülich, appointed honorary professor at Nanchang University
Obituary: Bernd Scharenberg has passed away
New section members
Birthday list 3rd quarter 2011
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 17th year 2011 No. 2, pp. 47-49

imprint

Published by the Division of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology of the German Chemical Society
ISSN: 1618-3258

Editorial staff:
Prof. Dr. Dr. Klaus Fischer
Analytical and Ecological Chemistry FB VI - Geography / Geosciences -
University of Trier Campus II, Behringstr. 21, D-54296 Trier
Tel. And Fax: 0651 / 201-3617 Secretariat: 0651 / 201-2243
Email: fischerk@uni-trier.de
Abbreviation: Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox
Design / technical implementation:
Dr. Matthias Kudra, University of Leipzig
Email: kudra@uni-leipzig.de cover photo
Aquariums for breeding and keeping zebrafish (Danio rerio) for the implementation of ecotoxicological test procedures (source: T. Knacker)

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Original contributions

Evaluation of the persistence of selected priority substances in the aquatic environment
M. Peschka
With Umweltchem Ökotox 17th year 2011 No. 3, pp. 52-53 Screening of the behavior of active pharmaceutical ingredients in a water-sediment test system
M. Radke, M. Maier
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 17th year 2011 No. 3, pp. 54-56

From the Division

Excerpts from the minutes of the meeting of the board of directors of the GDCh Division of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology on April 11, 2011
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 3, p. 57

Briefly introduced

The biocides department in the Federal Environment Agency
Chair for Instrumental analytical chemistry at the University of Duisburg-Essen and IWW Center Water, Mülheim an der Ruhr
Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health (Springer) An International Journal
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 17th year 2011 No. 3, pp. 58-61

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Conference announcements 20th Chemical Colloquium "Pollutant Dynamics in River Basins - Causes, Effects and Consequences of Material Changes in Space and Time", 19./20. September 2011 in Koblenz
Colloquium Particulate Material Flows in River Basins, September 20-21, 2011 in Koblenz Conference reports Workshop report: Interim balance of the POP Convention and declaration on the implementation of the 2001 Stockholm Convention
Per- and polyfluorinated compounds and no end - data, trends and new insights
Notes from the annual meeting of the Society of Water Chemistry. Short messages The European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register E-PRTR
Press release: EFSA publishes first practical guidance for assessing nano applications in food & feed
UBA (Vienna) study (REP-0324) "Pollutants in humans - results of a human biomonitoring study in Austria" published
UBA press release 037/2011: Investigation of the pollution of people in Europe Federal Environment Agency leads the German part of the pilot study DEMOCOPHES
EU bans cadmium in jewelry, in alloys for soldering and in PVC
UBA texts 15/2011 published: Comparative analysis of estimated and measured BCF data (OECD 305)
Report of the CVUA (Chemical and Veterinary Investigation Office) Karlsruhe: veterinary drug residues residues in food of animal origin - suspicious samples from the slaughterhouses
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 17th year 2011 No. 3, pp. 62-78

Personnel

New section members (entries from February 24th to July 11th, 2011)
Birthday list 4th quarter 2011
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 17th year 2011 No. 3, pp. 79-80

imprint

Published by the Division of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology of the German Chemical Society
ISSN: 1618-3258 Editorial staff:
Prof. Dr. Dr. Klaus Fischer
Analytical and Ecological Chemistry FB VI - Geography / Geosciences -
University of Trier Campus II, Behringstr. 21, D-54296 Trier
Tel. And Fax: 0651 / 201-3617 Secretariat: 0651 / 201-2243
Email: fischerk@uni-trier.de
Abbreviation: Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox
Design / technical implementation:
Dr. Matthias Kudra, University of Leipzig
Email: kudra@uni-leipzig.de cover photo
Dependence of the biodegradability of various fluorinated basic structures on the number of methyl groups n (Fig. 1, article by M. Peschka)

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Original contributions

Occurrence of heterocyclic PAHs in rivers in Lower Saxony
A.-K. Siemers, JS Mänz, W.-U. Palm, D. Steffen, WKL Ruck
With Umweltchem Ökotox 17th year 2011 No. 4, pp. 82-85 Non-extractable residues formed during biodegradation of 2,4-D in soil are biogenic
KM Nowaka; A. Miltnera, M. Gehreb, A. Schäffer, M. Kästnera
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 17th year 2011 No. 4, pp. 86-87 Oxidation of the tolylfluanide metabolite N, N-dimethylsulfamide (DMS)
N. Schatz, O. Happel, D. Richter
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 17th year 2011 No. 4, pp. 88-89

From the Division

Award of the Divisions Publication Prize 2011 to Dr. Karolina Nowak and Dr. Andreas Kretschmann
Minutes of the DFG roundtable on July 8th, 2011 at RWTH Aachen University
Minutes of the board meeting of the GDCh Division of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology on July 15 and November 19, 2011
Mitt Environment c hem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 4, pp. 91-95

Briefly introduced

The Institute for Environmental Research at RWTH Aachen
Mitt Environment c hem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 4, pp. 96-98

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Conference announcements Gordon Research Conference on Environmental Endocrine Disruptors, June 3-8, 2012, West Dover, Vermount, USA
Conference "Urban Environmental Pollution", June 17-20, 2012, Amsterdam
6th Int. Conference on Environmental Science and Technology, June 25-29, 2012, Houston, Texas, USA
Eurosoil 2012, July 2-6, 2012, Bari, Italy
4th European Chemical Societies Congress, August 26-30, 2012, Prague
2nd Int. Conference on Environmental Pollution and Remediation, August 28-30, 2012, Montreal, Canada Conference reports Report from the 23rd Int. Symposium on polycyclic aromatic compounds in Münster, September 2011 News in brief New VDI guideline on bioindication: Sampling of bream (Abramis brama)
UBA press release 56/2011: Mineral oil-free inks for newspaper printing
UBA-Texte 63/2011 published: Forecast of the concentration of PPP active ingredients in groundwater
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 17th year 2011 No. 4, pp. 99-105

Personnel

In memory of Dr. Thomas Knacker
New section members (entries July 12th-September 6th, 2011)
Birthdays 1st quarter 2012
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 17th year 2011 No. 4, pp. 106-108

imprint

Published by the Division of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology of the German Chemical Society
ISSN: 1618-3258

Editorial staff:
Prof. Dr. Dr. Klaus Fischer
Analytical and Ecological Chemistry FB VI - Geography / Geosciences -
University of Trier Campus II, Behringstr. 21, D-54296 Trier
Tel. And Fax: 0651 / 201-3617 Secretariat: 0651 / 201-2243
Email: fischerk@uni-trier.de
Abbreviation: Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox
Design / technical implementation:
Dr. Matthias Kudra, University of Leipzig
Email: kudra@uni-leipzig.de cover photo
The group chairman, Prof. Andreas Schäffer, presented the FG prize for the best publication by a young environmental scientist to Dr. Karolina Nowak and Dr. Andreas Kretschmann