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Program

Day 1 - Wednesday, May 23, 2012

14:00 - 17:00 Technical tour - Biopile facility (Bus to leave at 13:30 from Concordia)
19:00 – 22:30 Conference banquet, Bateau Mouche (Pier Jacques Cartier, bus to leave at 17:30 from Concordia)

Day 2 - Thursday, May 24, 2012

8:45 - 9:00 Opening and welcoming remarks, EV 2-260
9:00 - 10:30 Session 1
Chair: Craig Lake
  • James T. Olsta, In-Situ active capping case studies. View/download PDF
  • Steven M. Jones, Incorporating habitat enhancements and compensatory mitigation into sediment remediation design. View/download PDF
  • Inui Toru, Improvement of dredged sediment using air bubbles or carbonized sewage sludge. View/download PDF
  • Catherine Mulligan, Improvement of lake water quality using sediment resuspension. View/download PDF
10:30 - 10:45 Break and poster session, EV lobby
10:45 - 12:30 Session 2, EV 2-260
Chair: Inui Toru
  • Yoichi Watabe, Utilization of cement treated lightweight soils made from dredged clay. View/download PDF
  • Mustafa B. Erten, The performance of organophilic clay on NAPL contaminated sediments under anisotropic consolidation
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Session 3, EV 2-260
Chair: Jacob Van Houten
  • Stephen Brower, How the use of a quality assurance program assisted in the evaluation and selection of coal ash delineation methodologies in response to the TVA coal ash release. View/download PDF
  • Conor J Buggy, Incorporating public health impact assessment into dredge licensing applications in Ireland. View/download PDF
  • Melanie Desrosiers, Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) of open-water disposal of sediment to support the management of dredging project in the St. Lawrence river. View/download PDF
15:00 - 15:30 Break and poster session
15:30 - 17:00 Session 4, EV 2-260
Chair: James Olsta
  • Jacob Wesley Vanhouten, Remediation of river sediments containing dioxins and other chemical compounds as part of a large watershed restoration project. View/download PDF
  • Matthew L Graham, Randle reef sediment remediation project - An overview of a proposed large scale clean-up in the Hamilton harbour area of concern. View/download PDF
  • Masaharu Fukue, Evaluation of adverse effects of anoxic sediments on aestivating sand lance (Ammodytes personatus). View/download PDF

Day 3 - Friday, May 25, 2012

9:00 - 10:30, EV 2-260 Session 5
Chair: Guy Mercier
  • Sanjay Sharma, Arsenic contamination in India. View/download PDF
  • Motohei Kanayama, Cementation of soil due to microbial activity using waste oyster shell. View/download PDF
  • Unyime E John, Time dependent leachability and potential environmental implications from S/S treatment of chromium contaminated clay
10:30 - 11:00 Break and poster session, EV Lobby
11:00 - 12:30 Session 6, EV 2-260
Chair: Masaharu Fukue
  • Ali Khelifa, Sediment contamination due to oil-suspended particulate matter aggregation during oil spills in coastal waters. View/download PDF
  • Dileep Palakkeel Veetil, Removal of copper from contaminated sediment using flotation technique. View/download PDF
  • Ifeoma Gloria Ebele Ibeanu, Assessment of suitability of stream mine sediments in residential building construction
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 to 14:30 Session 7, EV 2-260
Chair: Laleh Yerushalmi
  • Jill Searle, Naphthalene sorption to additives in cement-treated soils. View/download PDF
  • Masami Ohtsubo, Evaluation of oil absorbing ability for peat using a column test. View/download PDF
14:30 - 15:00 Break and poster session, EV lobby
15:00 – 16:30 Panel Session: What are the future challenges for sediment remediation and management? EV 2-260
Chair: Catherine Mulligan
  • Panelists: Masaharu Fukue, Tokai University (PDF), Connor Buggy, University College Dublin, David S. Karpovich, Saginaw Valley State University (PDF), Serge Lepage, Environnement Canada (PDF)
16:30 - 16:45 Concluding remarks and closing
Wireless Account for the conference Username: wire0026
Password: Astm2012 (case sensitive)

Posters

1 James Moir. and Jeff Daniel An Alternative to Sub-Aqueous Sediment Cap Design
2 Jeff Daniel and James Moir Case Studies of River Restoration
3 Marie-Claude Wilson, Romeo Ciubotariu, Éric Blond, and Ioan Nistor Multi-layer Sediment Capping Structure in Shallow Water - a Canadian Primer
4 Joseph P. Kraycik, Stephen D. Brower, Rock J. Vitale, and William J. Rogers Creating Legally-Defensible Data: A Large Scale Emergency Response Case Study
5 Suzanne Agius and Sabine Apitz Anatomy of a Sediment Management Decision
6 Raphael Olanrewaju Famusudo Petroleum Hydrocarbon Pollution: The Distribution in Sediment and Water of the Ona River, Ondo State, Nigeria
7 Bruce Noble and David Wilson In-Situ Solidification/Stabilization at Sydney Tar Ponds – Implementation of Large Scale Marine Sediment Remediation
8 John A. Bleiler, Kevin Gardner, Nancy Ruiz An Alternative to Sub-Aqueous Sediment Cap Design
9 S.R. Clough, M. Shupe, M. Avakian and P.G. Bucens Development of Two Novel Pore Water Sampling Techniques to Reduce Confounding Field Variables
10 Stephen Clough and Helder Costa Metals as a Proxy to Identify Sediment Origins Adjacent To a San Francisco Serpentine Outcrop
11 Jacob VanHouten, David Karpovich, Brent Headquist, Hannah Voss and Meaghan VanWert The Saginaw Bay Watershed GLISTEN Cluster's KawKawlin River Watershed Assessment Project
12 Masaharu Fukue, Kouji Uehara, Hidenori Kouge, Yoshio Sato, Toru Harada, Mahiro Yamana, Catherine N. Mulligan A New Technique for Improving Sediment-water Quality by Means of Re-suspension-Fukuyama Method

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