New design of BioMAP

BioMAP - Biomonitoring of Atmospheric Pollution -

is an international scientific organization that provides an opportunity for an inter-change of ideas among researchers, policy-makers and practitioners in environmental sciences. Attention will be focused on qualitative and quantitative aspects on biomonitoring of atmospheric pollutants with biological species.

Chairman: Prof. Dr. Bert Wolterbeek, NL

Secretary General: Dr. Simone Wünschmann, DE

www.biomap-international.com

Board Member

Dr. Simone Wünschmann is new board member of the Association Liberal Academics (Verband Liberaler Akademiker).

Verband Liberaler Akademiker (VLA)

Joining the 13^th International Conference of the Arab Academy of Sciences (AAS) on

"Climate Change and Water-Energy-Nexus

in the Arab Middle East” in Jordan

and journey through Israel/Palestine in Dec. 2015

Please have a look to the impressions of our

„In-between-tour“

through Jordan, Israel, Palestine

Fukushima Excursion

After the ICOBTE Conference in Fukuoka we had the possibility to join the Fukushima Excursion organized by the University of Fukushima.It is over four years since the Great East Japan Earthquake/ tsunami and the subsequent nuclear accident happened. In this excursion starting in Sendai, it was possible to visit Okuma, a town located at approximately 5 km west of TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Until today Okuma is a restricted area (difficult to return zone). Within this area members of the Fukushima University are operating experimental fields to examine ways to reduce radiocesium uptake by crops.

About 80 participants from 20 countries joined the BIOMAP workshop.

BIOMAP 7

The 7th International Workshop on Biomonitoring of Atmospheric Pollution (BIOMAP) was held in the city of Lisbon, Portugal, from June 14-19 2015.
This was the third time that BIOMAP has been organized in Lisbon. We would like to say thank you for that fantastic and successfully important meeting especially to the members of the Instituto Superior Técnico:

Marta Almeida, Marina Almeida-Silva, Joana Lage, Carla Ramos, Catarina Galinha, Nuno Canha,Tiago Faria, Alexandra Silva, Maria do Carmo Freitas and Isabel Dionísio

Board of BIOMAP

(left to right) Dr. Stefano Loppi (University of Siena, Italy), Dr. Simone Wünschmann (EISN-Institute, Germany), Prof. Dr. Bernd Markert (EISN-Institute, Germany), Prof. Dr. Bert Wolterbeek (TU Delft, Netherlands), Prof. Dr. Maria do Carmo Freitas (IST, Portugal), Dr. Marta Almeida (IST, Portugal)

BioMAP 7

Biomonitoring of Atmospheric Pollution

14 - 19 June 2015, Lisbon, Portugal

New board members of BioMAP are

Prof. Dr. Bernd Markert and Dr. Simone Wünschmann.

Information of the conference.

We welcome our new Team Member Dr. Benno Böer

Dr. Benno Böer assists the Director and UNESCO Representative to Ethiopia, the African Union and UNECA, with the routine and day-to-day management of the UNESCO Liaison Office. He leads the science team of the Addis Abeba Office, in order to foster science-based sustainable environmental development in Ethiopia and Member States of the African Union. Further on, he actively supports the Regional Coordination Mechanisms (RCMs) with the African Union, UNECA and sister UN agencies in the fields (RCM Environment, Population, Urbanization, RCM Science & Technology, RCM Agriculture).

More detailed information you will find here.