THURSDAY 30 November, 4 PM CET (Hybrid Webinar)
PROF. DIRK WALLSCHLÄGER
Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, CA
Abstract:
Selenium is an environmental contaminant of high concern in North America, and may cause negative ecotoxicological effects in aquatic systems influenced by a variety of industrial discharges. Selenium has a very complex environmental chemistry, so a suite of different analytical methods is required to identify and quantify various chemical forms (”species”) of selenium in the environment, so that the chemical mechanisms of selenium transfer and transformation processes can be understood. In this seminar, I will present some completed and ongoing research that aims to characterize the pathways by which different selenium compounds transfer from industrially-impacted waters to the atmosphere.