Sustainable Aggregates Resource Management International Conference was organised in Ljubljana in September 2011. Gorazd Žibret was in the organising committee, and was taking a lead role in the preparation of the event. 120 people from 14 European countries, Turkey and the European Commission participated at the event. The event lasted for 3 days. Web page of the conference is: http://www.sarmaproject.eu/index.php?id=1549
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 1947989, 2Doc. dr. Mateja Gosar is editor in cheif of the of scientific periodical review Geologija. Geologija is a central Slovenian scentific journal with a 50 year history and tradition. It has an international advisory board. In Geologija publish Slovenian and foreign authors. Contributions cover the fields of geological mapping, stratigraphy, paleontology, mineralogy, mineral deposits, hydrogeology, environment protection, geochemistry, geohazards, seismology, geoinformatics and related activities.
C.05 Editorial board of a national magazine
COBISS.SI-ID: 5636866The purpose of the research was to determine the influence of historical small scale ore processing sites on today’s extension and spatial distribution of mercury in the environment in Idrija area and to establish their significance for environmental contamination. The study was performed with the intention to enable a better and more accurate explanation for today’s distribution of mercury in the wider Idrija area. The main aims were to determine the contents and vertical distribution of mercury in soils and sediments at studied roasting site and to establish the changes in mercury speciation with depth in the soil profile. The special focus was on the study of mercury transformations and transport characteristics through the 350 years-long period, from the cessation of roasting in the woods to the present time. It was shown that total mercury concentrations determined in soils and humus from investigated areas are extremely high. Thermo-desorption measurements revealed the presence of cinnabar and Hg bound to soil matrix components. Cinnabar and non-cinnabar Hg compounds are almost equally distributed in most of the samples. The laboratory leaching experiments have confirmed significant Hg concentrations in soil and humus leachates, indicating a possible mobilization of mercury. According to these findings, we estimate that roasting sites present a significant source of Hg contamination to the surrounding ecosystems. Because of transport of contaminated material with surface runoff and of soluble Hg compounds, which are potentially bioavailable, with groundwater, highly contaminated roasting site areas are of concern also for the wider Idrija area as also for the Gulf of Trieste which will finally receive most of the Hg leached from the contaminated soils in the Idrija area.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
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