International Session in the 18th Symposium on Environmental Chemistry, Tsukuba 2009, Japan
Call for Application

We are pleased to organize the International Session in the 18th Symposium on Environmental Chemistry, to be held at Tsukuba International Congress Center during June 9th to 11th, 2009, in Tsukuba, Japan. The symposium is annually held by the Japan Society for Environmental Chemistry to discuss the various aspects of environmental contaminants. The topics of the symposium include analytical methods of the contaminants, distribution and fates of chemicals in the environment, and their effects on wild life and human being. Although the presentations of the symposium are done basically in Japanese, we have the International Session where all presentations and discussions are in English.


The International Session calls papers on "Environmental pollution in Asia". We welcome papers of "original" researches on analytical and monitoring methods of contaminants, distributions and behaviors of the contaminants in atmospheric, aquatic, soil environments, accumulation and toxicity of the chemicals in biota, treatments of the contaminants and so on. The target contaminants cover inorganic and organic including heavy metals, persistent organic pollutants, endocrine disrupting chemicals, hydrocarbons, pharmaceuticals and so on. All participants are expected to make oral presentation in English (20 - 30 minutes including questions and answers).


We will give financial support to selected presenters. The support will be up to 120,000 JpY for each of the selected presenters. We will offer the supports to 6 selected presenters. The selection will be done by organizing committee based on the quality of the abstract associated with the application form. The committee will highly evaluate the original researches based on analytical results rather than review papers and combination of past researches. The committee will inform the results of the selection by the end of March, 2009. The selected participants will utilize the support for air tickets, registration fee (10,000 JpY), accommodation fee and so on. The participants will buy the air tickets by themselves. We will refund on the conference.


please send your application form to the organizing committee (jecint09@cc.tuat.ac.jp) via e-mail before February 28, 2009. We are looking forward to hearing from you.

Click here to get application form and example of the application form.


Important Dates
Submission of application: February 28, 2009
Informing the results of financial supports : March 31, 2009
Submission of 2-page manuscript for proceedings: April 18, 2009
Contact us by e-mail (jecint09 @cc.tuat.ac.jp) for further information.


International Session Committee of the 18th Symposium on Environmental Chemistry, Japan Society for Environmental Chemistry


The details of the 18th Symposium on Environmental Chemistry, Tsukuba 2009, Japan are available in the following website (in Japanese). https://www.j-ec.or.jp/index.html