Summary Minutes of Physical Chemistry Division Committee Meeting
in Wageningen, Netherlands, April 1 - 2, 2000.
Summary of Minutes of Commission Meeting at Tel
Aviv, Israel, 3-5 June 2000
This meeting was held at the International Symposium
on Atmospheric Deposition and Its Impact on Ecosystems, with Reference
to the Mideast Region, which was organized jointly with the IUPAC Commission
on Atmospheric Chemistry (VI.2).
> Overview
of the International Symposium (also published CI Vol. 22,
No. 6, pp. 168-169, 2000.
The Commission meeting focused on the status of
projects that are currently on the agenda of Commission VI.3. New initiatives
were taken for future actions within the working field of soil and water
chemistry, and a position paper, "Soil and Water Chemistry: Environmental
Issues and Research Needs", was discussed. The
position paper is intended to provide guidance for future activities
of Commission VI.3. Once again, the importance of completing projects
was stressed, as well as the necessity to anticipate needs in the new
project-driven structure of IUPAC, and to find ways of implementing
new projects within this new structure. Altogether, there are five ongoing
projects; two new task forces were established; and one potential task
force was identified. Task groups were assigned for each project, and
three draft reports (to be offered for publication this year) were discussed.
Finally, the possibilities of joining the green chemistry activities
within the IUPAC Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry Division (III) were
considered.
Willie J. G. M. Peijnenburg
Secretary, IUPAC Commission on Soil and Water Chemistry VI.3
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