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Bioaccumulation in organisms at a transfer point for dredged material in the German Bight (North Sea)
S. Schafer et al.
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 1, pp. 2 - 5 Occurrence of selected psychotropic drugs in groundwater influenced by trickle fields in Berlin
U. Hass et al.
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 1, pp. 6 - 8

From the Division

Paul-Crutzen Award of the GDCh Division of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 1, p. 9

Briefly introduced

Junior professorship for atmospheric chemistry at the University of Bayreuth
Westfälische Wasser- und Umweltanalytik GmbH
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 1, pp. 11 - 12

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Event announcements
Workshop "Relevance of Transformation Products in the Urban Water Cycle", April 23-24, 2012, Koblenz
Colloquium "LC-MS in Environmental Analysis 2012", June 11-13, 2012, Leipzig
8th Summer School of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, 26-30.06. 2012, Brno, CZ
4th EuCheMS Chemistry Congress (ECC 2012), August 26-30, 2012, Prague
3rd SETAC CEE Annual Meeting, September 17-19, 2012, Krakow
International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment (ICHMET), September 23-27, 2012, Rome
SedNet Round Table Discussion "Sediments in River Basins", October 9, 2012, Hamburg
15th Magdeburg water protection seminar "The Elbe and its sediments", 10.-11.10.2012, Hamburg Kurznachrichten Compilation of monitoring data on environmental concentrations of pharmaceuticals (UBATexte 66/2011)
Residues of pharmacologically active substances in food of plant origin
Amendment of the Plant Protection Act New BMBF joint project: Risk management of new pollutants and pathogens in the water cycle (RiSKWa)
Environment and water: proposal to reduce the risk of water pollution
Insecticides will be an increasing problem for water bodies in Europe in the future
DFG Research Group INTERNANO - DFG FOR 1536 Job Postings PhD Project Global Trace Substance Modeling (MPI Mainz)
Postdoctoral Fellow: Analysis of organic compounds in alkaline media (PSI Switzerland)
New PhD topics at Research Center for Toxic Compounds in the Environment (Brno, CZ)
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 1, pp. 17 - 25

Personnel

New specialist group members (entries from September 7th to December 5th, 2011)
Birthday list 2nd quarter 2012
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 1, pp. 26 - 27

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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 whelk (Buccinum undatum), a bio-indicator of the North Sea sediment pollution caused by the transport of dredged material (source: Fa. BIOCONSULT [Schuchardt & Scholle GbR])

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Investigations to evaluate and avoid toxic oxidation by-products in the oxidative wastewater treatment of fluoroquinolones
J. Türk et al.
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 2, pp. 28 - 31
Total dissolution and digestion methods for engineered metal nanoparticles
T. Klawonn et al .:
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 2, pp. 32 - 34

From the Division

Minutes of the FG board meeting on February 15, 2012
Minutes of the FG board meeting on May 10, 2012
Joint annual conference GDCh-FG environmental chemistry & Ecotoxicology and SETAC GLB, 10-13 September 2012, Leipzig
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 2, pp. 35 - 39

Briefly introduced

Institute for sustainable chemistry and environmental chemistry, University of Lüneburg
working group hydrogeology and landscape water balance at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Institute for Water Research GmbH, Schwerte
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 2, pp. 40 - 44

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Event announcements Program of the colloquium "LC-MS in Environmental Analysis 2012", June 11-13, 2012, Leipzig
Gordon Research Conference: Drinking Water Disinfection By-Products, August 5-10, 2012, South Hadley, USA
Workshop "Wastewater Reuse Applications and Contaminants of Emerging Concern", September 13-14, 2012, Limassol, Cyprus
Annual conference of the GDCh Division of Sustainable Chemistry: "Sustainability in chemical synthesis", September 16-18, 2012, Kaiserslautern
3rd International Symposium on Green Chemistry for Environment, Health and Development, October 3-5, 2012, Skiatos, Greece
7th European Conference on Pesticides and Related Organic Micropollutants in the Environment, October 7-10, 2012, Porto, Portugal
European and National Resources Forum, 12.-14. 11th 2012, Berlin
Workshop "Reactivity and mobility of pedogenic and artificial colloids in soils", November 29-30, 2012, Freiburg
NORMAN workshop "Occurrence, Fate and Effects of Emerging Pollutants in the
Environment ", November 29-30, 2012, Amsterdam News in brief New emission reductions for main air pollutants
New brochure: Impacts of air pollution on human health, ecosystems and cultural heritage
Contact allergens in toys: Health evaluation of nickel and fragrances
New UBA brochure: Sewage sludge disposal in the Federal Republic of Germany
Position paper of the Soil Protection Commission at the Federal Environment Agency Uranium input into agricultural soils through fertilizers
UBA -tex 84/2011 published: Application of bio tests to characterize the exposure pathways for environmental hormones from plastics
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 2, pp. 50 - 54

Personnel

New members of the specialist group (entries from 05.12.2011 to 08.05.2012)
Birthday list 3rd quarter 2012
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 1, pp. 55 - 56

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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
Air pollution from industrial emissions (Source: Press Release UNECE Air Pollution Convention, May 4, 2012)

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Original contributions

Investigation of the transformation of organic micropollutants in biological wastewater treatment - Analytical and experimental concepts and challenges
A. Wick, TA Ternes
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 3, pp. 58 - 61
Behavior of nanoparticles in sewage treatment plants
M. Maier et al.
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 3, pp. 62 - 65
Online sensor system for monitoring the water quality for organic compounds
O. Happel et al.
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 3, pp. 66 - 69

FG contributions in the ESEU

Primary NO ₂ emissions and their impact on air quality in traffic environments
in Germany (abstract)
Kurtenbach, R. et al.
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 3, p. 70 Does spatial auto-correlation call for a revision of latest heavy metal and nitrogen deposition maps?
Schröder, W. et al.
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 3, p. 70

From the Division

The websites of the Division in the new GDCh guise
Program of the annual meeting of SETAC GLB and the GDCh Division of Environmental Chemistry & Ecotoxicology, September 10-13, 2012, Leipzig
Invitation to the FG general meeting
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 3, pp. 71 - 74

Briefly introduced

Analytical research group at the Chair of Urban Water Management at the Technical University of Munich
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 3, p. 75

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Event announcements 4th International Workshop on Per- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances - PFAS, November 7th - 9th, 2012, Idstein
9th Langenau Water Forum (LWF), November 12-13, 2012
5th Water Contamination Emergencies: managing the threats, November 19-21, 2012, Mühlheim ad Ruhr
Workshop "Reactivity and Mobility of Pedogenic and Artificial Colloids in Soils", November 29-30, 2012, Freiburg
Congress BIO-refined VII - On the way to the raw material and energy transition, 20. ? 21.02. 2013, Oberhausen
Micropol & Ecohazard, 16.-20. 06.2013, Zurich Kurznachrichten European Environment Agency (EEA) Technical Report No 6/2012 on Atmospheric Pollutants
DFG press release No. 37 of July 20, 2012: MAK value for chlorinated biphenyls lowered
UBA background report: Air quality 2011 - particulate matter episodes shaped the picture
UBA-Texte 09/2012 published: Strategies for reducing fine dust pollution: PAREST final report
Opinion No. 030/2012 of the BfR of May 31, 2012: Health assessment of 1,3-dimethylamylamine (DMAA)
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 3, pp. 76 - 83

Personnel

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Reemtsma gives an inaugural lecture at the University of Leipzig
New specialist group members (entries from May 8, 2012 to August 24, 2012)
Birthday list 4th quarter 2012
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 3, pp. 84 - 85

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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
Laboratory sewage treatment plant of the LfU Munich to investigate behavior
of nanoparticles in wastewater (source: M. Maier, LfU Munich)

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Original contributions

Floodsearch: floods on a laboratory scale
Brinkmann, M. et al .: S. Schafer et al.
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 4, pp. 88 - 91
New antibiotics in the environment - first results on ecotoxic effects in the water cycle
Brünsing. J. et al .:
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 4, pp. 92 - 95

FG - Contributions in the ESEU

A new method to determine the anaerobic degradability of surfactants: the AnBUSDiC test
Bendt, Th .; Willing, A.
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 4, p. 95

From the Division

Joint annual meeting of the SETAC-GLB and the GDCh Division of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology at the environmental research center in Leipzig, 10.-13. September 2012 - a short report
Minutes of the general meeting on September 12, 2012 as part of the annual conference in Leipzig
Minutes of the board meeting on September 10, 2012 during the annual meeting in Leipzig
Annual report 2011/2012 of the chemical assessment Working Group
Annual report 2011/12 of the environmental monitoring working group
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 4, pp. 96-103

Briefly introduced

Düring working group at the Institute for Soil Science and Soil Conservation at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen
Fraunhofer Institute for toxicology and Experimental medicine ITEM
RLP AgroScience GmbH - Institute for Agroecology Department of environmental chemistry
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 4, pp. 104 - 108

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Event announcements
703rd DECHEMA Colloquium: Trace substances in the water cycle, February 7, 2013, Frankfurt am Main
IsoG 2013 Environmental Geochemistry, March 13-15, 2013, Warsaw
2nd Int. Symposium on Green Chemistry, Renewable Carbon and Eco-Efficient Processes May 21-24, 2013, La Rochelle, France
4th Int. Conference on Environmental Management, Engineering, Planning, and Economics (CEMEPE 2013) and SECOTOX Meeting, June 24-28, 2013, Mykonos
ICMGP - International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, July 27th-August 2nd, 2013, Edinburgh
Gordon Research Conference: Atmospheric Chemistry, July 28th-August 2nd, 2013, West Dover, VT, USA Conference report UBA / NORMAN workshop ?Environmental Monitoring of Biocides in Europe? Short news Arsenic in food
Characterization of nanoscale properties of chemical substances under REACH
UBA texts 37/2012: Uranium in soil and water
UBA-Texte 38/2012: Determination of substance-related environmental quality criteria
EEA Press Release: Many Europeans still exposed to harmful air pollutants
UBA press release No. 31/2012 from September 14, 2012
UBA background paper on PAK review Walter Klöpffer: Behavior and degradation of environmental chemicals. 2nd edition 2012. Wiley-VCH
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 4, pp. 113 - 118

Personnel

Birthday list 1st quarter 2013
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 18th year 2012 No. 4, p. 119

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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
Presentation of the Paul Crutzen Prize at the annual conference in Leipzig to Manabu Shiraiwa by the group chairman, Prof. Andreas Schäffer