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MONDAY 24 NOVEMBER
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SESSION 1 :
Environmental Studies 1
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9.00am
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Opening
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9.20
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Katsumi Hirose
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Anthropogenic Radionuclides
In The Central South Pacific: Results Of The SHOTS Project
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10.00
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Coffee Break
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10.20
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Cath Hughes
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Movement Of A Tritium
Plume In Shallow Groundwater At A Legacy Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal
Site In Eastern Australia Over Four Decades
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10.40
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Stephen Long
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The Radioactive
Content Of Some Australian Drinking Waters
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11.00
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Jane McLeish
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Study Of
Groundwater Discharge Into River Systems Using Radon-222 As A Tracer
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SESSION 2 : Radon
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11.20
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Tracy Wright
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Improvements To ARPANSA’s
Radon Measurement Facilities And A Comparison Between Radon Measurement
Instrumentation
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11.40
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Marcia Pires de
Campos
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Radon Levels In
An Experimental House Constructed With Phosphogypsum Plates
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12.00
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Rick Tinker
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Development Of A
Energy Discriminate CR-39 Nuclear Track Etch Dosimeter For Radon-220
Measurements
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12.20pm
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Lunch
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SESSION 3 : TENORM
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1.40
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Lucio Leonardo
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Assessment Of
Atmospheric Pollution In The Vicinity Of A Casseterite Process Industry Using
Lichen Canoparmelia Texana
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2.20
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Andrew Esparon
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Determination Of
An Analogue Site For Ranger Uranium Mine To Extrapolate Pre-Mining Gamma Dose
Rates
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2.40
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Alison Frostick
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Spatiotemporal
Assessment Of Sediments From Magela Creek,Northern Australia To Evaluate The Impacts Of Uranium Mining
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3.00
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Coffee Break
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3.20
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Mirna.Seleghim
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Radioecological Monitoring Of The Impact Of
Effluents From A Nuclear Facility Being Decommissioned In The Antas River Hydrographic Basin In The State Of Minas Gerais, Brazil
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3.40
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Afkar.Al-Farsi
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Presence Of 227Ac And Other Naturally
Occurring Radionuclides In Oil And Gas Pipe Scales, Sludge And Sediment In
The Sultanate Of Oman
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4.00 – 5.00 : POSTER
SESSION
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1
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Michelle Campos
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Spatial And
Temporal Variation Of Fluctuations Of ACIDITHIOBACILLUS Ssp. In Effluents Of
Uranium Mine, Caldas - MG.
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2
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Marcia Pires de
Campos
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External Exposure
Due To Phosphogypsum Plates Used As Building Material
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3
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Petr Kovar
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Calibration And
Verification Of Noble Gases Monitors In Nuclear Facilities.
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4
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Alison Frostick
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Investigating
Potential Natural Analogues For Ranger Uranium Mine
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5
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Rosli Mahat
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Variations In
Indoor Radon Concentration In Malaysia
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6
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Byung-Uck Chang
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Evaluation Of The
Radioactivity Levels In Several TENORM Industries In South Korea
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7
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Sandra Damatto
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Trace Elements In
Sediments From Ponds In Pantanal, Mato Grosso Do Sul, Brasil
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8
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Paulo Sergio Cardoso
da Silva
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Determination Of
Elementary Basal Levels In Sediments Of Baixada Santista, São Paulo, Brazil
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9
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Ashraf Khater
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Technologically
Enhanced Pb-210 And Po-210 In Iron And Steel Industry
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10
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Ashraf Khater
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Effects Of Soil
Properties On Natural Radionuclides Concentration In Arid Environment: A Case
Study
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11
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Adir Janete Godoy
dos Santos
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Natural
Radionuclide From Soil In A Landfill Area Investigation
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12
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Andrew Esparon
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Visual Gamma -
Gamma Spectrometry Analysis Software
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TUESDAY 25 NOVEMBER
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SESSION 4 : Dose Assessments
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9.00am
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9.20
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Neil Whitehead
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Nuclear Forensics
- New Approaches
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9.40
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Ashraf Khater
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Radiological
Assessment Of Narghile Smoking: Radioactivity Levels And Dose Assessment
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10.00
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Coffee Break
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10.20
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Peter Medley
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Derivation Of
Regional Concentration Factors For Radium In Bush Passionfruit (Passiflora Foetida)
From The Alligator Rivers Region, Northern Territory, Australia
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10.40
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Jessica Veliscek
Carolan
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I-131 Discharges
To The Marine Environment And Uptake By Algae In Sydney, Australia
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11.00
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John Twining
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Method
Development For Tritium Measurements And Initial Evaluation Of Tritium Data
For Tree Transpirate From A Legacy Waste Site In Eastern Australia
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11.20
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Andreas Bollhöfer
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A Study Of
Radium Bioaccumulation In Freshwater Mussels, Velesunio Angasi, In The Magela
Creek Catchment, Northern
Territory, Australia
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11.40
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Andreas Bollhöfer
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An Ingestion
Dose Assessment For Aboriginal Inhabitants Downstream Of Ranger Uranium Mine
In The Northern Territory Of Australia
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12.00pm
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Lunch
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SESSION 5 : Methods and
Instrumentation
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1.20
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Paul Martin
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Matrix reference
materials: preparation, characterization and use
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2.00
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Jennifer
Harrison
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Rapid
Determination Of Uranium, Thorium, Plutonium, Americium And Strontium
Activities In Water, Soil And Vegetation.
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2.20
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Liesel Hardege
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Sequential
Injection Chromatography In The Development Of Automated Radiochemical
Separations
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2.40
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Sandra Sdraulig
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An Improved And
Rapid Radiochemical Method For The Determination Of Polonium-210 In Urine
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3.00
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Coffee Break
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3.20
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Graeme McDonnell
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Advances In Portable Radiation Monitoring And Measuring
Instruments
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3.40
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Gordon McOrist
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Density Correction - A Better Method For Difficult
Samples
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4.00
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Jiri Suran
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Metrological Assurance Of Radioactive Discharges
Monitoring Systems In Czech Npps
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4.20
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Daniella Fiero
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Low-Level Gamma-Spectrometry By Using Compton Suppression – Testing The Performance Of Two
Systems At The ANSTO Low Level Radiochemistry Laboratory.
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WEDNESDAY 26 NOVEMBER
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SESSION 6 : Environmental Studies
2
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9.20
am
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Timothy Payne
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Applicability Of
Surface Area Normalised Distribution Coefficients (Ka) In Interpreting
Measurements Of Radionuclide Sorption
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10.00
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Coffee Break
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10.20
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Paulo Sergio Cardoso
da Silva
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Radiological
Study In Caves Of Southwest
Brazil
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10.40
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Sandra Damatto
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7Be And 210Pb Concentrations In
Air, Rain Water And Soil In São
Paulo, Sp -Brazil
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11.00
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Atun Zawadzki
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Comparison Of
Be-7 Analysis Using Two Gamma Spectrometry Systems And Software Packages
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12.20pm
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Lunch
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1.20
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Spera Meeting
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3.00
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Coffee Break
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3.20 – 4.20
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Spera Meeting
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7:00
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Conference Dinner
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International Antarctic Centre
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THURSDAY 27 NOVEMBER
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SESSION 7 : Radioactivity in Soil
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9.20
am
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Paulina Schuller
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Use Of Fallout Radionuclides
To Evaluate The Effectiveness Of Changes In Tillage Systems For Reducing Soil
Erosion On Agricultural Land
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10.00
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Coffee Break
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10.20
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Jerry C Ritchie
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Using Cesium-137
To Study Soil Redistribution In Guam And Hawaii
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10.40
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Ana Navas
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Patterns Of
Spatial Distribution Of Natural And Artificial Radionuclides In Soils At Catchment
Scale (South Central
Pyrenees)
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11.00
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Hannah Leckie
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Negligible Soil
Erosion At Balmoral Station, Mackenzie Basin Over The Last 60 Years: An Assessment Based On 137Cs And Kawakawa Tephra
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11.20
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Wee Teck Hoo
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Using Plutonium
As A Probe Of Change In Erosion Processes?
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12.00pm
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Lunch
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SESSION 8 : Radioactivity in
Sediments
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1.20
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Stephen Tims
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From The River
To The Sea - Using Fallout Plutonium To Investigate Erosion And Sediment
Transport
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2.00
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Gary Hancock
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Fallout
Plutonium As A Chronometer In Australian Sediments
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2.20
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Rajeev Lal
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Analysis Of Pacific Ocean Floor Sediments By The Method Of Neutron Activation
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2.40
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Shaoming Pan
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137Cs And Plutonium In Sediment From The Yangtze River Estuary, P.R. China
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3.00
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Closing Remarks
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3.20
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Coffee Break
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