COST action TD1407: network on technology-critical elements (NOTICE)--from environmental processes to human health threats.
The current socio-economic, environmental and public health challenges that countries are facing clearly need common-defined strategies to inform and support our transition to a sustainable economy. Here, the technology-critical elements (which includes Ga, Ge, In, Te, Nb, Ta, Tl, the Platinum Group Elements and most of the rare-earth elements) are of great relevance in the development of emerging key technologies-including renewable energy, energy efficiency, electronics or the aerospace industry. In this context, the increasing use of technology-critical elements (TCEs) and associated environmental impacts (from mining to end-of-life waste products) is not restricted to a national level but covers most likely a global scale. Accordingly, the European COST Action TD1407: Network on Technology-Critical Elements (NOTICE)-from environmental processes to human health threats, has an overall objective for creating a network of scientists and practitioners interested in TCEs, from the evaluation of their environmental processes to understanding potential human health threats, with the aim of defining the current state of knowledge and gaps, proposing priority research lines/activities and acting as a platform for new collaborations and joint research projects. The Action is focused on three major scientific areas: (i) analytical chemistry, (ii) environmental biogeochemistry and (iii) human exposure and (eco)-toxicology.
Instituto de Investigacións Mariñas (IIM-CSIC), 36208, Vigo, Spain. acobelo@iim.csic.es.
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Institute F.-A. Forel, University of Geneva, Route de Suisse 10, CH-1290, Versoix, Switzerland. montserrat.filella@unige.ch.
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Earth and Ocean Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG), Galway, Ireland. peter.croot@nuigalway.ie.
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Istituto Superiore di Sanità, via Giano della Bella 34, 00162, Rome, Italy. chiara.frazzoli@iss.it.
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Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry and Applied Ecochemistry, Ghent University, Coupure links 653, B-9000, Ghent, Belgium. gijs.dulaing@ugent.be.
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Du Laing
Applied Analytical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Warsaw, 02-093, Warsaw, Poland. nospina@chem.uw.edu.pl.
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Ospina-Alvarez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, 41296, Gothenburg, Sweden. sebastien.rauch@chalmers.se.
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School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, 4, Brownlow Street, Liverpool, L693GP, UK. salaun@liv.ac.uk.
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University of Bordeaux, UMR EPOC 5805, Allée Geoffroy St Hilaire, 33615, Pessac, France. jorg.schafer@u-bordeaux.fr.
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Aquatic Ecology and Centre for Water and Environmental Research, University of Duisburg-Essen, D-45117, Essen, Germany. sonja.zimmermann@uni-due.de.
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D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000379:methods; D017753:Ecosystem; D054750:Ecotoxicology; D004777:Environment; D004782:Environmental Health; D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000032:analysis / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005062:European Union; D006078:Government Programs; D006801:Humans; D008674:Metals, Rare Earth / Q000032:analysis*; D008906:Mining; D011634:Public Health; D028561:Transition Elements / Q000032:analysis*
D008674:Metals, Rare Earth; D028561:Transition Elements
(Eco)-Toxicology; Analytical determination; COST Action; Environmental biogeochemistry; Human exposure; Technology-critical elements