Session: Tungsten: Occurrence, Environmental Fate, Potential Ecological and Health Effects


GEOC		Monday, 29 August 2005

1:30 PM-5:30 PM Washington DC Convention Center -- 203A, Oral
Tungsten: Occurrence, Environmental Fate, Potential Ecological and Health Effects

Organizers:	Washington Braida Christos Christodoulatos Dimitris Dermatas Agamemnon Koutsospyros
1:30 PM	52	Perspectives of phytoremediation of tungsten contaminated sites Nikolay Strigul
2:00 PM	53	W impacts on Pb speciation vs. release in legacy Pb firing range soils Gang Shen, Dimitris Dermatas, Christos Christodoulatos, Washington Braida
2:30 PM	54	Hardmetal powder: Industry perspective Zan Persichetti, Michael J. Pardus, Dianne K. Green
3:00 PM	55	International Tungsten Industry Association (ITIA) Global Stewardship Program Salvatore T. Giolando, Carmen Venezia, Hakan Hedstrom, John D. Schell, Michael J. Pardus, Zan Persichetti
3:30 PM		Intermission
3:45 PM	56	Embedded weapons-grade tungsten alloy shrapnel rapidly induces metastatic high-grade rhabdomyosarcomas in F344 rats John F. Kalinich, Christy A. Emond, Thomas K. Dalton, Steven R. Mog, Gary D. Coleman, Jessica E. Kordell, Alexandra C. Miller, David E. McClain
4:15 PM	57	Tungsten carbide/cobalt hardmetal powder: Are they carcinogenic? John D. Schell, Salvatore T. Giolando, Michael J. Pardus
4:45 PM	58	Toxicological information for tungsten Sam L. Keith, D. B. Moffett, D.W. Wohlers, Z.A. Rosemond
5:15 PM		Concluding Remarks

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