Some of the emerging and compelling mercury issues that will be discussed at the 9th ICMGP

• Energy production and mercury emissions
• Sources, emissions and inventories
• Energy production and mercury emissions (mercury and coal)
• Life cycle analysis of mercury in coal, gas, oil, PVC productions and cement production
• Pollution control and recovery
• Clean technology
• Mercury at the interfaces (air- snow; air-soil; air-water)
• Climate change and mercury cycling
• Mercury in aerosols and clouds
• Atmospheric transport and deposition
• Local, regional and global scale modeling
• Mercury in polar regions
• Mercury in urban areas (air and water)
• Impacts of mining (gold mining, mercury mining; small scale mining)
• Mercury in products (dental amalgams)
• Assessment, management and remediation of contaminated sites
• Health effects (synergy of mercury and other contaminants; Selenium and mercury; exposure assessment; Susceptibility and sensitivity)
• Ecotoxicology of methylmercury (bio-monitoring)
• Environmental monitoring and assessment
• Advances in analytical chemistry
• Environmental biogeochemistry
• Bioaccumulation and trophic transfer
• Fisheries (Fish, tissue testing, sources of fish, fish consumption advisory)
• Mercury in aquatic systems (DOC, organic macro molecules)
• Watershed processes
• Societal and Socioeconomic effects of mercury pollution Environmental justice
• Integration of science and policy
• Risk communication and public education
• Ecosystem sensitivities and human-wildlife vulnerability