Support for young scientists to attend the 36th International Geological Congress Delhi, India, 2-8 March 2020 Call for Applications
Deadline: 15 October 2019
Call for Applications
Yunfan Li
2nd IMGA NIGERIA CONFERENCE
8 th MEDGEO Conference Student Travel Award 2019 Call for applications
8 th MEDGEO Conference Student Travel Award 2019 Call for applications
Travel Grants of 500 USD each, will be provided to four IMGA students to encourage their participation in the next MEDGEO Conference to be held in Guiyang, China. Applicants must be students and young scientists who submitted abstracts to the conference that were accepted by the Scientific Committee. These stipends will be given as a reimbursement after verifying the respective presentation either as oral communication or poster at the Conference.
To be considered as a candidate please send an application letter to Carla Patinha (email: cpatinha@ua.pt) and Nelly Mañay (email: nmanay@fq.edu.uy) with the following information:
- Name
- Birth date
- Institution
- Country
- Student support letter from Mentor or Senior Colleague
- Abstract
- Abstract acceptance email from MEDGEO 19
Other certificate awards will be also given at the Conference:
- IMGA Chapter Stimulus Award
- Best Oral/Poster Presentation
- IMGA Certificate of Recognition
- Lifetime Recognition of Service to IMGA
Medical Geology and Psychology special session:
Medical Geology and Psychology special session:
Geology can affect the psychology of organisms positively and negatively. For example, Salt cave can play an important role in relaxation and healing from psychological problems. On the other side, Geological hazards, toxic metals, trace elements can be the cause of many neurological symptoms and syndromes.
According to that only very few researchers have addressed the relationship between geology and psychology, we planned for this session to fill this neglected area for the first time.
Topics and keywords:
— Minerals and mood.
— Copper and schizophrenia
— Lithium in water and suicide mortality.
— Relaxation and healing in salt caves.
— Alzheimer and heavy metals
— Phobias related to the geological hazards (Geo-Phobias)
— Post-traumatic stress disorder after earthquakes and tsunamis.
— Toxic heavy metals associated with neurological symptoms and autism.
— Tourette syndrome and magnesium deficiency.
— Minerals for premenstrual syndrome treatment.
— Restless legs syndrome and Iron Deficiency.
— Trace mineral imbalances associated with Wilson & hemochromatosis diseases.
— Psychology of geophagy and pica.
*Abstract Submission Deadline: 31/3/2019
*Conference website: http://www.medgeo2019.com/
8th International Conference on Medical Geology – MEDGEO 2019
12 – 15 August, 2019
Guiyang, Guizhou
5th Young Earth Scientists Congress
9 – 13 September, 2019
Freie Universität. Henry Ford Building, Berlin, Germany
8th International Conference on Medical Geology – MEDGEO 2019
12 – 15 August, 2019
Guiyang, Guizhou
MEDGEO19 UPDATE: The deadline for the abstract submission has been extended to March 31!
For more information, visit the conference website: www.medgeo2019.com
Taiwan
Updated 17 July 2017
Chapter Leader:
Professor Chien-Yen Chen, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, National Chung Cheng University, 168, University Rd., Min-Hsiung Township, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, 62102
E-mail: chienyen.chen@gmail.com
Chapter Secretary-General:
Professor Ying-Jan Wang, Toxicologist, Department of Environmental Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City 70101, Taiwan
E-mail: yjwang@mail.ncku.edu.tw
Chapter Website: http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/imgatwn
The Taiwan Chapter on Medical Geology was officially established on May 19, 2010 in Tainan, Taiwan, during the scientific activities of 3rd International Congress on Arsenic in the Environment – As 2010 at National Cheng Kung University. The Chapter is composed of over 12 members with representation from a wide range of disciplines including biomedical, public health and geoscience areas. The Chapter enjoys the participation of geoscientists, epidemiologists, toxicologists, public health professionals and medical doctors, with particular interest in the geochemistry, environmental and human health effects of arsenic from contaminated drinking water.
Newsletters from Taiwan Chapter: http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/imgatwn
June 2017
No update.
December 2016
No update.
2015
6-month report from Local Chapter Leader Prof. Chien-Yen Chen:
The leader for the Taiwan Chapter has been voted on and Professor Chien-Yen Chen was selected. The next Taiwan Chapter meeting is scheduled on 10th July and committee organization will be discussed. A medical geology conference will be taking place on the same day. There will be oral and poster sections for local researchers and students. An application for a Ph.D. program for the study of medical geology has been put forward to the Taiwan government in order to recruit students from around the world at the department of Earth and Environmental Sciences in National Chung Cheng University of Taiwan. This program is initiated by Professor Chien-Yen Chen with the aim to have strong international cooperation and connections with Taiwan for medical geology study.
2014
IMGA would like to thank Prof Jiin-Shuh Jean for his excellent 3-year term as Chapter Leader. IMGA also welcomes Professor Chien-Yen Chen as the new elected leader of the Taiwan Chapter. The website of the Taiwan Local Chapter is http://proj.ncku.edu.tw/imgatwn.
2010
Professor Jiin-Shuh Jean (Department of Earth Sciences, NCKU) was elected as the first term (three years) director general of the Taiwan IMGA Chapter. Director General Jiin-Shuh Jean appointed Professor Ying-Jan Wang (Institute of environmental Medicine, NCKU) as a secretary general and Professor Kuo-Chin Hsu (Department of Resources Engineering, NCKU) as a chairman of the Lecture and Conference committee. We will hold an annual meeting and conference once a year in May to bring together our Taiwan members to discuss medical geology problem in Taiwan.
Pakistan
Updated 17 July 2017
Chapter Leader:
Mumtaz Hussain, Engineer, Environmental Consultant and Editor “The Environ Monitor”. W-715, Defence Housing Authority, Lahore, 54792 Pakistan
E-mail address: theenvironmonitor@gmail.com
Deputy Chapter Leader:
Qamar Dar, AJ&K University, Muzaffarabad, Pakistan
E-mail: darqamar80@yahoo.com
The IMGA Local Chapter in Pakistan was established in 2013.
June 2017
No update.
December 2016
No update.
November 2015
6-month report from Local Chapter Leader Dr. Mumtaz Hussain.
The activities of IMGA Pakistan Chapter during last six months are highlighted in the following:
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- Conferences. The subject of Medical Geology was introduced in the conferences held as under:
–Climate Change: Implications and Management Strategies on 21 February 2015 –Management of Prevalent Diseases in Pakistan on 11 April 2015 –Seven Billion Dreams: One Planet Consume with Care 30 May 2015 –Children’s Exposure to Environmental Hazards: Health Impacts and Safeguards 30 September 2015
- Conferences. The subject of Medical Geology was introduced in the conferences held as under:
- Mutual Exchange of Information
| Information about IMGA was communicated to geology relevant institutions, academia and companies. |
- Membership Campaign
It has remained below the mark. An effort will be made to improve this sector.
June 2015
6-month report from Local Chapter Leader Dr. Mumtaz Hussain.
General
In general performance of IMGA-PAKISTAN CHAPTER has remained satisfactory with respect to introducing Medical Geology among geological and medical circles and professional events. However, membership campaign is yet to gain momentum. We will soon be able to increase membership.
Participation in Events
We participated in following events and highlighted Medical Geology:
- World Water Day 2015 – Consultative Assembly of Pakistan Youth Parliament for Water at P-Block Auditorium, Pak Secretariat, Islamabad on March 27, 2015
- Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Pakistan seminar on energy audit on 25 February 2015. Engineer Mumtaz Hussain made presentation on Energy Audit: Eco-Implications and Management Strategies.
- National conference on Climate Change: Implications and Management Strategies held on 21 February 2015 at Lahore. Recommendations are as under:
–International Cooperation under UN United Nations needs to act as Apex Coordination Body through IPCC with a view to integrate the inputs of member countries for mitigating adverse impacts of climate change. This body should meet regularly on quarterly basis for review of the progress made and further harmonist. –Sharing of Information Extensive sharing of information and research outcomes should be done so that impacts of global warming and snowball may be minimized. –Formulating Policies National level policies should be formulated on multifarious aspects of climate change in light of the UN guideline. Relevant stakeholders need to be involved in such activities. –Awareness and Educational Programmes Electronic, print and social media should be optimally utilized to launch mass awareness programmes. Such speedy passage of information will help the respective policy makers and planners to undertake effective measures against impending issues of climate change well in time. Formal educational courses in the academic institutions will certainly help in equipping the students with necessary technical know-how. –Conducting R&D on Health Health of human beings and other living organisms is being negatively impacted. There is dire need of conducting researches on health of human beings, animals and plants in various countries at national, regional & global levels. In this regard health of children and women is more at stake especially in developing world. –Combating Natural Calamities Natural calamities like volcanoes, earthquakes, floods & droughts have been occurring in the world. These are causative factors for climate change. These further aggravate the ensuing impacts. These should be suitably managed at all echelons. - Conference on Commuting with Dignity: A Political Dialogue on Sustainable Urban Transport in Pakistan held under arrangement Parkstran (IUCN) on 10 February 2015 at Islamabad.
- Consultative workshop on Gaps and Opportunities for Sustainability of Rawalpindi/Islamabad Metro Bus Project held under arrangement Parkstran on 26 January 2015 at Islamabad.
- National Seminar on Management of Prevalent Diseases in Pakistan: World Health Day 2015. Recommendations are as under:
–Awareness programs about prevalent diseases in Pakistan should be launched vigorously through media. –Basic Health Care should form part of curricula in schools and colleges. –All stakeholders should work together for environmental preservation at all levels. –The federal and provincial governments should make master plans for providing clean air, potable water and pure food to all citizens. –The federal and provincial governments should enhance budgetary allocation for health. –It is recommended to use modern tools for management of prevalent diseases. –There are significant and growing opportunities for collaboration between the geoscience and human health science for understanding and defining interactions between the natural (geological) environment and human health.
Future Events
- World Environment Day 2015 National Conference on Seven Billion Dreams, One Planet, Consume with Care will be held at Lahore on 30 May 2015.
- Mr. Qamar Dar (Chapter Secretary) has recently joined MSc Geology classes in Punjab University. He has promised to take active part in the Chapter activities.
2014
The Pakistan Chapter arranged two events titled Water and Waste Treatment and Environmental Health on 20 and 21 June, 2014 respectively. In these conferences the role of Medical Geology was specially highlighted.
Members also participated in events arranged by other Organizations.
During November 2014 we held a conference on Multi Modal Transport Systems in which Eco and Health aspects were included.
Japan
Updated 17 July 2017
Chapter Leader:
Prof Hisashi Nirei, The Geo-pollution Control Agency International Union of Geological Science (IUGS) Geoscience for Environmental Management (GEM) Japan Branch, 1277-1, Kamauchiya, Motoyahagi, Katori City, Chiba Prefecture 287-0025, Japan
E-mail: nireihisashi@msn.com
Chapter Secretary:
Kunio Furuno
E-mail: kuniofurunojp@gmail.com
Chapter Website: http://www.jspmug.org/
The IMGA Local Chapter in Japan was established in 2010.
June 2017
No update.
December 2016
No update.2015
6-month report from Local Chapter Secretary Dr. Kunio Furuno:
Meetings
The meetings of the officers of Japan chapter (Chair: Hisashi Nirei and Secretary: Kunio Furuno) were held every month. They discussed about the activity of the chapter.
Training Course
We are involved in many training courses on environmental geology. During this period, the 3-day ‘14th Training Course of Investigation Methods, Geo-pollution Research and Remediation in Surplus Soil and Disposal Site’, which mainly focused on heavy metal pollution, was held on Katori, Chiba prefecture in Japan. The training course consisted of lectures and field training. The main contents were groundwater basin management and groundwater flow, geological survey and boring, geo-pollution, radioactivity and radioactive pollution, man-made strata and heavy metal pollution, etc. (Photos included in Members section.)
Cooperation
The Japan chapter closely cooperates with the following organizations:
- Japanese Society of Geo-pollution Science, Medical Geology and Urban Geology Association: http://www.jspmug.org/index.html
- Japan branch of IUGS-GEM (International Union of Geological Science) (Commission on Geo-Science for Environmental Management): http://www.iugs-gem.org/#Commission on Geo-science for Environmental Management
- Working Group of Manmade strata and Geo-pollution of IUGS-GEM: http://manmade.iugs-gem.org/
- The geological Society of Japan (Specialized group of Environmental geology): http://www.geosociety.jp/pecialized
Conferences
We were involved in the following conference:
- 24th Symposium on Geo-environments and Geo-technics. November 2014 Nihon University Tokyo Program: http://www.jspmug.org/envgeo_sympo/24th_sympo/24th_sympo_prog.pdf (in Japanese) Proceedings (English contents, English abstracts, English explanation of Figures and tables)
Presentations and Papers
Most of the members of the Japan chapter had oral and poster presentations in the following conference. The presentations may not focus on health and medicine directly but are related to them from a view point of the environment.
- 24th Symposium on Geo-environments and Geo-technics. November 2014 Nihon University Tokyo Program: http://www.jspmug.org/envgeo_sympo/24th_sympo/24th_sympo_prog.pdf (in Japanese) Proceedings (English contents, English abstracts, English explanation of figures and tables). Most of the members had oral and poster presentations.
- Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2015, May 24 to May 28, 2015: http://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e/. Some members presented at this conference
Chapter Members
Same as the last period.
2014
Meetings
The meeting of the officers of Japan Chapter (Chair: Hisashi Nirei and Secretary: Kunio Furuno) were held every month. They discussed the activity of the chapter.
Cooperation
The Japan Chapter closely cooperates with the following organizations:
- Japan branch of IUGS-GEM (International Union of Geological Science ) (Commission on Geo-Science for Environmental Management)
http://www.iugs-gem.org/#Commission on Geo-science for Environmental Management:GEM
- Working Group of Manmade Strata and Geopollution of IUGS-GEM
http://manmade.iugs-gem.org/
- Japanese Society of Geo-pollution Science, Medical Geology and Urban Geology Association
http://www.jspmug.org/index.html
- The Geological Society of Japan (Specialized group of Environmental geology)
http://www.geosociety.jp/pecialized
Presentations and Papers
Most of the members of the Japan Chapter had oral and poster presentations in the following conferences. The presentations may not focus on health and medicine directly but are related to them from a view point of the environment.
- Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2014, April 28 to May 2, 2014
Some members presented in this conference.
- 121st Annual meeting of the Japan Geological Society at Kagoshima, September 14-16 2014
Many members presented in this conference.
https://geosociety2.sakura.ne.jp/en/
2012
The Japan Chapter is very active and has 12 members. These are a mixture of environmental geoscientists and chemists. The Chapter organises the very successful Annual Symposium for Geo-pollution Science, Medical Geology and Urban Geology and publishes the Journal on Geo-pollution Science, Medical Geology and Urban.
Geology Prof. Hisashi and his colleagues are also very involved in radioactivity assessments following the Tohoku earthquake in March last year. They have been surveying radioactive geopollution and the behaviour of radioactive dust material from Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant No.1. The IMGA Committee sends its sympathy and support to the Japan IMGA Chapter following the terrible earthquake and continuing environmental problems in Japan and very much appreciates the work that the IMGA Local Chapter is doing in very difficult circumstances.
Meetings
Meetings of the officers of the Japan Chapter (Chair: Hisashi Nirei and Secretary: Kunio Furuno) are held every month to discuss the activity of the branch.
Cooperation
The Japan Chapter closely cooperates with the following organizations:
- Japan branch of IUGS-GEM (International Union of Geological Science ) (Commission on Geo-Science for Environmental Management). http://www.iugs-gem.org/# Commission on Geo-science for Environmental Management:GEM
- Working Group of Manmade Strata and Geopollution of IUGS-GEM.
http://manmade.iugs-gem.org/
- Japanese Society of Geo-pollution Science, Medical Geology and Urban Geology Association
http://www.jspmug.org/index.html
- The Geological Society of Japan (Specialized group of Environmental geology).
http://www.geosociety.jp/pecialized
Presentations and Papers
Most of the members of the Japan Chapter had oral and poster presentations in the following conferences. The presentations may not focus on health and medicine directly but are related to them from a viewpoint of the environment.
- The 21st Symposium on Geo-Environments and Geo-Technics, January 24 and 25, 2012
Almost of the all members of the Japan Chapter had presentations. The proceedings of the Symposium and Geo-Technics Abstracts (English and Japanese) are available from the website:
http://www.jspmug.org/envgeo_sympo/21st_sympo/21th_sympo_abst.pdf - IUGS-GEM meeting at Brisbane, Australia
Hisashi Nirei presentation: Two Super Plumes of Radioactive Geopollution due to melt down of the Reactor of Fukushima No.1 Nuclear Power Plant.
- IGC34 Brisbane, Australia
Session 4-4 Medical Geology. Hisashi Nirei; Two Super Plumes of Radioactive Geopollution due to melt down of the Reactor of Fukushima No.1 Nuclear Power Plant (invited)
Session 4-5 Geopollution, dust and manmade strata
Hisashi Nirei; Classification of manmade strata for assessment of geopollution (Keynote speech)
Members also presented in this and other sessions. - 119th Annual meeting of the Japan Geological Society at Osalka, September 15-17 2012
Many members presented in this session: http://www.geosociety.jp/osaka/content0001.html
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The Japanese Chapter has its own international journal: Geopollution, Medical Geology and Urban Geology. |
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2011
The Japan Chapter is very active and has 12 members, a mixture of environmental geoscientists and chemists. The Chapter organises the very successful Annual Symposium for Geo-pollution Science, Medical Geology and Urban Geology and publishes the Journal on Geo-pollution Science, Medical Geology and Urban Geology. The Chapter has also held approximately 15 informal meetings for study of the book “Essentials of the Medical Geology”. Professor Hisashi and his colleagues are also very involved in radioactivity assessments following the Tohoku earthquake in March this year. The IMGA Committee sends its sympathy and support to the Japan IMGA Chapter following the terrible earthquake and continuing environmental problems in Japan this year and very much appreciates the work that the IMGA Local Chapter is doing in very difficult circumstances.