Commission on
Atmospheric Chemistry (VI.2)
Summary of Minutes
of Commission Meeting at IUPAC General Assembly, Berlin, Germany, 9
August 1999
Eleven members of Commission VI.2, including Observers
and National Representatives, met during the 40th IUPAC General Assembly
in Berlin. It was the first meeting of Commission VI.2 since the one
held during the successful IUPAC Conference on Degradation Processes
in the Environment organized in May 1998 in Dubrovnik, Croatia together
with the Commission on Water and Soil Chemistry (VI.3).
In Dubrovnik, the proposal for reorganization of IUPAC
was announced for the first time, and Commission VI.2, together with
Commission VI.3, expressed some concern in a letter sent to the President
of the Chemistry and the Environment Division (DCE).
In Berlin, the minutes of the Dubrovnik meeting were
accepted with corrections. Concerning the new organization of IUPAC,
whereby the commissions cease to exist by the end of 2001, it was decided
to go along with the new structure and task forces for new projects
coming out of Commission VI.2. The new proposals will be submitted to
the DCE during the General Assembly in Berlin and sent in to the Secretariat
immediately afterwards.
The ongoing projects (project leaders are given in
parentheses) were reviewed.
Commission VI.2 decided to have two continuous projects:
i) "Articles on local environmental problems" (Hertel, Zhang, Klasinc),
to be published by members in Chemistry International, and ii)
the Internet web page of Commission VI.2 (Klasinc, Slanina), and concluded
that most projects are finished or will be finished by 2001. Completed
projects include the following:
i) "Development of diffusive samplers" (Brown),
with a manuscript sent to Pure and Applied Chemistry (PAC)
for publication
ii) "Modeling lifetime and degradability of organic
compounds" (Klasinc), with conference proceedings to be published
in PAC and in Chemosphere
iii) "Photocatalytic and catalytic effects on
aerosol surface in the atmosphere" (Bazhin), presented and published
in ii) and in Chemosphere
The project "Distribution and seasonal variation of
regional ozone" (Akimoto) has been canceled by the project leader and
projects on "Followup workshop measurement techniques in atmospheric
chemistry" (Tavares) and "Photochemical reactions of coordination compounds
in water droplets in the atmosphere" (Bazhin) have been extended.
Concerning cooperation with other Commissions, on the
project with Commission V.8, "Chemicals in the atmosphere: Solubilities
in aqueous media" (Schwartz), a book is in preparation with Wiley. The
project with Commission I.4, "Aqueous solution kinetics data for atmospheric
chemistry", will continue with a new leader from Commission VI.2 (Pienaar).
The new proposed task force projects and their leaders
and duration (given in parentheses) are as follows:
1) "Glossary of atmospheric chemistry" (Schwartz,
1999-2001)
2) "Workshop on atmospheric deposition in Israel
2000" (van Grieken, 1999-2001)
3) "Local radiation balance: Influence of aerosol"
(Slanina 1999-2002)
4) "Workshop on local air pollution in developing
countries in Guanzhou" (Zhang, 1999-2001 or 2000-2002)
5) "Assessment of human exposure to outdoor pollution"
(Hertel, 1999-2002)
Project 1 is a revision of the glossary published by
J. Calvert in PAC in 1990; Projects 2-5 will be pursued in cooperation
with Commission VI.3; with ECN and EU; interdivisionally and with IOCD
and WHO; and with EU, respectively.
For 2000-2001, the membership of Commission VI.2 was
recommended to comprise four Titular Members (the Chairperson acting
also as member of the DCE Division Committee), five Associate Members,
eight National Representatives, and three Observers.
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Leo Klasinc
Secretary, IUPAC Commission on Atmospheric
Chemistry VI.2