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GKSS Summer School 2007
PERSISTENT POLLUTION: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
- Reconstruction for the assessment of state and changes in the meteo-marine environment -
May 9 - 18, 2007, Hunting Castle Göhrde near Lüneburg, Germany

Contributions: Welcome (Ebinghaus) Introduction to the school (Quante) The problem of persistent pollution - an overview (Ebinghaus) History of air pollution - causes and consequences (Brimblecombe) What can we learn from ice cores (Boutron) What can we learn from peat cores (Shotyk) Emission inventories (Pacyna) Retrospective assessment of lead emissions and control policies in Europe (von Storch) POP chemistry in the atmosphere (Palm) The global distribution of aerosols (Graßl) Aerosols as transport vehicles of persistent pollutants (Matthias) Clouds and their role in atmospheric transport and chemistry (Quante) Chemical transport modelling (Aulinger) Assessment of source-receptor relations by inverse modelling (Elbern) What do real world experiments tell us about pathways of persistent pollutants (Hintelmann) Future perspectives in a toxicologists view (Schüürmann) Natural substances of marine origin with toxic properties (Helmholz) Effects of persistent pollutants on marine mammals (Hellwig) The European POP-perspective (Holoubek) Wrap up (Ebinghaus)