HEADLINES

1. 5th International SedNet Conference 27th-29th May 2008
2. Urban Sediment Management and Port Redevelopment / Sediment in River Basin Management Plans
3. Workshop Sustainable Sediment management - a systems approach from a resilience point of view
4. New booklet on clean-up of contaminated sediments
5. UNESCO-ISI – International Sediment Initiative
6. Calls for abstracts
7. Upcoming events

5th International SedNet Conference 27th-29th May 2008

hosted and co-organised by the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway

Urban Sediment Management and Port Redevelopment / Sediment in River Basin Management Plans

Until today almost 100 participants registered for participation. If you cannot find your name on the attached participants list and wish to attend, then please complete the conference registration form and send it to the SedNet Secretariat ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ) before May 1st.

Via the SedNet Conference Registration form you can at the same time register for the:

Workshop Sustainable Sediment management - a systems approach from a resilience point of view

organised by the project team of Living with Sediments on 30th May 2008
hosted by the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway

The programs of both events (and the registration form) can be found on http://www.sednet.org/

New booklet on clean-up of contaminated sediments

For those who are considering (or involved in planning) expensive clean-up of contaminated sediments, the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute has recently published a 50 page booklet titled: “Deciding About Sediment Remediation”. This booklet describes a step-by-step sequence of decisions to determine whether, and how, to clean up contaminated sediments, or to let natural recovery occur. More than that, the booklet summarizes the pioneering work of 26 researchers at four universities in the Great Lakes Basin; a project group who laid a foundation for numerical simulation of sediment remediation processes and cost optimization of sediment cleanup projects.

The booklet is available in a paper copy (at US$ 20 ) or as a free download (.pdf document) at http://aqua.wisc.edu/publications/ Click on “Contaminants” in the sidebar, on the left sidebar for this booklet and related publications, then click on the book title for a brief description, the free download, or purchase options. A direct download of the book is at: http://aqua.wisc.edu/publications/PDFs/SedimentRemediation.pdf

UNESCO-ISI – International Sediment Initiative

In March ISI published its 8th newsletter. You can download the newsletter from http://www.irtces.org/isi/newsletter.asp

Calls for papers

Special issue of the European Journal of Civil Engineering

The European Journal of Civil Engineering intends to publish a special issue about sediments. Publication is scheduled for 2009.

You are invited to submit papers on the following topics:

• Chemical, environmental and physical characterization of sediment
• Behaviour of pollutants in sediments
• Treatment of polluted sediments
• Valorarisation of polluted or treated sediments
• Management of sediments
• Water <-> sediment issues
• Case studies, experimental investigations

Papers are welcome both in English and French. For requirements about layout and formatting guidelines see http://www.revuesonline.com/.

Papers can be submitted directly to the guest editors:

• Zoubeir LAFHAJ, Ecole Centrale de Lille, LML, email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or
• Bernard HUSSON, INSA de Toulouse, LMDC, email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Submission deadline is 30 June 2008.

Battelle 2009 - Fifth International Conference on Remediation of Contaminated Sediment, Jacksonville, Florida, USA on 2-5 February 2009

The Call for Abstracts, anticipated scope of the program etc. can be found on http://www.battelle.org/conferences/sediments

Abstracts are due on 30 June 2008.

Upcoming events

2008:

28-30 April 2008: CHR UNESCO ISI workshop on Erosion, Transport and Deposition of Sediments, Bern, Switzerland. http://www.chr-khr.org/

14-16 May 2008: REUSED – 5th European Conference on Contaminated Sediments in London, UK. “Reuse of Waterways and Remediation of Sediments”. http://www.reused.nl/

27-29 May 2008: 5th International SedNet Conference, hosted and co-organised by the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway. Urban Sediment Management and Port Redevelopment / Sediment in River Basin Management Plans. Call for Abstracts: see http://www.sednet.org/

30 May 2008: Workshop Sustainable Sediment Management – a systems approach from a resilience point of view, organised by the project team of “Living with Sediments”, hosted by the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway. For workshop program see www.sednet.org (go to ‘SedNet Conference’ and scroll to bottom of webpage)

16-21 June 2008: 4th International Conference on River Restoration, Venice – Italy. Organised by the European Centre for River Restoration.http://www.ecrr.org/conf08.htm

7-10 July 2008: International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software in Barcelona, Spain, with a session on “Integrated Catchment Management: How can modelling tools and techniques help?” http://www.iemss.org/iemss2008/

7-13 July 2008: 4th Summer School of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, organised by RECETOX, in Brno, Czech Republic. http://www.recetox.muni.cz/

10-12 July 2008: International Symposium on Sediment Management, Lille – France. http://www.augc.asso.fr/userdoc/annoncelille.pdf

3-7 August 2008: SETAC World Congress, Sydney, Australia. http://www.setac2008.com/

8-12 September 2008: 8th International Conference on Hydro-Science and Engineering (ICHE-2008), Japan. http://www.iche2008.info/

1-3 October 2008: CEDA Dredging Days 2008: Dredging Facing Sustainability, Antwerp, Belgium. http://www.dredgingdays.org/

15-17 November 2008: International Conference on Hydrology and Climate Change in Mountainous Areas, Nepal. http://www.soham.org.np/

2009:

2-5 February 2009: Fifth International Conference on Remediation of Contaminated Sediment, Jacksonville, Florida, USA. Abstracts are due on 30 June 2008 http://www.battelle.org/conferences/sediments

14-16 September 2009: 3rd International Conference on Estuaries and Coasts, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. http://donko.civil.tohoku.ac.jp/icec2009/index.html

SedNet secretariat:

Mrs. Marjan Euser
Deltares / TNO
P.O. Box 342
NL-7300 AH Apeldoorn
The Netherlands
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