Third Mediterranean Clay Meeting
September 30 ’Äì October 3, 2002
Jerusalem, Israel
The 46 participants in the Meeting came from 10 countries.
From left to right: A. Neaman, C. Forano (France), S. Nir (Israel), R. Schoonheydt (Belgium), A. Aras, A. Deliormanli (Turkey), T. Polubesova (Israel)
Home Objectives Scientific Program Organizing Committees Appl.Clay Sci. Special Issue Participants Contact us
The Third Meeting organized by Societies for Clay Research in Mediterranean Countries took place in Jerusalem.
Societies for Clay Research in the Mediterranean Countries are:
France; Groupe Francois des Argiles
Greece; No official group
Israel; Israel Society for Clay Research
Italy; Gruppo Italiano A.I.P.E.A.
Portugal; Associaˆßˆ°o Portuguesa de Argilas
Spain; Sociedˆ°d Espaˆ±ola de Arcillas
Turkey; Turkish National Committee on Clay Science
The Conference was devoted to the chemistry, physics, and geology of clay minerals and their applications in protecting the environment, in agriculture and in industry.
An important aspect of the Conference was to promote cooperation between scientists of Mediterranean countries. We hope that this Conference contributed to attempts of achieving peace and raising hopes in the region.
The Israel Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport was a coorganizer of the Meeting. The first scientific session of the Meeting, which dealt with Environmental and Agricultural Applications of Clay-Minerals, was dedicated to the presentation of several achievements obtained throughout the three years of joint activities of several groups in Israel which collaborated in a large national project ’ÄúTashtiot’Äù. This project, funded by the Israel Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport proceeded during the period April 1, 1999 ’Äì July 31, 2002. The session also included contributions by several guest speakers from Europe and Israel.
The Meeting was also sponsored by The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and additional contributions were obtained from: The Israel Ministry of Agriculture, The Open University of Israel and The Peres Center for Peace.
The Meeting took place on the Edmond J. Safra Campus (Givat Ram) of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Chemistry Building (Los-Angeles); Seminar Hall (Upper Ground Level).
Opening lecture on " Applications of Clay-Minerals in the Design and Production of Environmentally Friendly Pesticide Formulations"
by Prof. Forano (France), in the conference room
Home Objectives Scientific Program Organizing Committees Appl.Clay Sci. Special Issue Participants Contact us
Scientific Program
Monday, Sept. 30; 19.00 ’Äì 21.30
Reception at the Belgium House.
Reception: (from left to right) S. Nir, S. Yariv (Israel), A. Langier-Kuzniarowa, B. Smieja-Krol (Poland), M. Tavasi (Israel), A. Deliormanli (Turkey), A. Langier-Kuzniarowa, C. Forano (France), T. Polubesova (Israel)
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Scientific Program
Opening ceremony : 09.00 ’Äì 09.30
Greetings by representatives of: The Israel Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport;
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Mr. Constantinos Papadimitriou, Economic
and Commercial Counsellor, Embassy of Greece; and Organizers of the Meeting.
First Session ’Äì dedicated to the ’ÄúTashtiot’Äù project of the Israel Ministry of
Science, Culture and Sport.
Environment and Agriculture I. Applications of Clay-Minerals in the
Design and Production of Environmentally Friendly Pesticide Formulations.
Chairman: Prof. Yoel Sasson
09.30: C. Forano, T. Alekseeva, Li Feng, J. Inacio, C. Taviot-Gueho &
J.P. Besse (France) : Interactions of Anionic Clays and Pesticides.
10.00: S. Nir, Y. Mishael (Israel), T. Undabeytia (Spain), G. Rytwo (Israel),
B. Papahadjopoulos-Sternberg (U.S.A.), O. Rabinovitz, T. Polubesova &
B. Rubin (Israel) : Clay-Micelles as a System for Solving Environmental and
Agricultural Problems.
10.25: Coffee break
10.50: Y. Mishael (Israel), T. Undabeytia (Spain), O. Rabinovitz, B. Rubin & S. Nir
(Israel) : Slow Release Formulations of Anionic Herbicides incorporated in
Micelles adsorbed on Montmorillonite.
11.15: Z. Gerstl, A.Nasser & U. Mingelgrin (Israel) : Chitosan Clay Interactions.
11.40: T. Alekseeva, J. Inacio, C. Taviot-Gueho & C. Forano (France) :
Comparative Study of Atrazine Adsorption on Humic/Cationic and Anionic Clays
Complexes.
12.05: Y. El-Nahhal (Palestinian National Authority) : Adsorptive Behavior of
Terbutryn on Organoclay Complexes.
12.30-14.00: Lunch
Chairman: Dr. Zev Gerstl
14.15: G. Rytwo (Israel) : Testing the Gouy-Chapman-Stern Adsorption Model
for Adsorption of Organic Cations to Soils.
14.40: M. Lado & M. Ben-Hur (Israel) : Soil Mineralogy Effects on Crust
Micromorphology, Infiltration and Erosion.
15.05: O. Rabinovitz, Y. Mishael, S. Nir, T. Polubesova, C. Serban & B. Rubin
(Israel): Testing the Release of Herbicides from Organo-Clay Formulations through
a Thin Soil Layer in Funnels.
15.30: Coffee break
Second Session - Posters
Chairperson: Prof. Lisa Heller-Kallai
15.50: Short oral presentations of posters followed by poster viewing:
S. Cebulak, A. Langier-Kuzniarowa, G. Bzowska & A. Matuszewska (Poland) :
A Contribution to Thermal Studies of the Mixed Salt-Clay Rocks.
S. Cebulak, A. Langier-Kuzniarowa & G. Bzowska (Poland) : The Usefulness
of TA in the Investigation of Fe-Substitution in Mg-Chlorites.
L. Groisman, C. Rav-Acha, Z. Gerstl & U. Mingelgrin (Israel) : The Use of
Long-Chain Organo-Clays for Sorption of Highly Hydrophobic Compounds
and for the Treatment of Industrial Wastewater.
A. Hein (Greece), P.M. Day (U.K.) & V. Kilikoglou (Greece) : Red Clays
from Central and Eastern Crete ’Äì Geochemical and Mineralogical Properties
in View of Provenance Studies on Ancient Ceramics.
S. Shoval (Israel) : Clay Sedimentation along the Southeastern Tethyan Margin
during the Progressive Divergence Stage of the Neo-Tethys (Upper Albian to
Turonian).
S. Shoval (Israel) : Clay Sedimentation along the Southeastern Tethyan Margin
during the Convergence Stage of the Neo-Tethys (Senonian to Eocene).
M.Tavasi, S. Nir & G.Rytwo (Israel) : Adsorption of Difenzoquat to
Montmorillonite.
Evening : Free: A visit to the Israel National Museum.
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Scientific Program
Wednesday, Oct. 2
Third Session - Spectral and Colloidal Properties of Clays and Clay Minerals.
Chairman: Prof. Janos Kristˆ„f
09.00: I. Lapides, E. Abramov & S. Yariv (Israel) : Thermo-XRD
Investigation of Montmorillonite Mechanochemically Treated with Urea.
09.25: L. Heller-Kallai, I. Lapides & N. Korbakov (Israel) : Thermal
Interactions of Kaolinite with Potassium Carbonate Revisited.
09.50: C.B. Li & S. Friedman (Israel) : Wien Effect Measurements in Dilute
Suspensions of Charged Clay Particles.
10.15: Coffee break
Chairman: Prof. Shmuel Yariv
10.40: J. Kristˆ„f (Hungary), R.L. Frost (Australia) &E. Horvˆ°th (Hungary) :
Controlled-Rate Thermal AnKaolinite and their Intercalates.
11.05: M. Epstein & S. Yariv (Israel) : Visible-Spectroscopy Study of the
Adsorption of Alizarinate by Al-Montmorillonite in Aqueous Suspensions and
in Solid State.
11.30: E.T. Stepkowska (Poland), J.L. Perez-Rodriguez & C. Maqueda
(Spain) : Variability in Water Sorption and in Particle Thickness of Standard
Smectites.
12.00-13.30 : Lunch
Fourth Session - Nanoparticles
Chairman: Prof. Claude Forano
13.45: R.A. Schoonheydt (Belgium) : Smectite Nanofilms.
14.25: U. Banin (Israel) : Semiconductor Nanocrystal Quantum Dots and
Quantum Rods: From Basic Science to Applications.
15.30 : Tour of Jerusalem followed by dinner. Sites visited included:
1. The Govenor’Äôs Palace;
2. The Old City: the market, the Holy Sepulchre, the Cardo, the Jewish Quarter;
3. Mount Scopus.
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Scientific Program
Thursday, Oct. 3
Fifth Session - Environment II. Applications of natural or modified
clay-minerals in catalysis of reactions and recycling and treatment of water.
Chairman: Dr. Shlomo Shoval
09.00: C. Rav-Acha, L. Groisman, Z. Gerstl & U. Mingelgrin (Israel) :
Bifunctional Organo-Clays for Detoxification of Industrial Wastewater.
09.25: E. Graber & M. Borisover (Israel) : A New Approach to Understanding
Organic Compound Interactions with Environmental Sorbents: I. Theory and
Application to Mineral and Natural Clay Sorbents.
09.50: M. Borisover & E. Graber (Israel) : A New Approach to Understanding
Organic Compound Interactions with Environmental Sorbents: II. Sorption to
Organoclays.
10.15: Coffee break
10.40: T. Polubesova, S. Nir & B. Rubin (Israel) : Removal of Pollutants from
Water using Optimized Micelle-Clay System.
11.05: S. Yariv (Israel) : Differential Thermal Analysis (DTA) or Organo-Clay
Complexes in Air Atmosphere.
11.30: G. Ritvo, Y. Avnimelech & M. Kochva (Israel) : Addition of Iron Rich
Sources as a Means to Control Sulfide in Fish Ponds.
10 mins. Break
Sixth Session - Geological aspects of clays and zeolites and their formation.
Chairman: Prof. Shmuel Yariv
12.00: A. Singer (Israel), K. Stahr & M. Zarei (Germany) : Hydrated Halloysite
in the Golan Heights.
12.25: A. Sandler (Israel) : The Early Diagenetic Illitization of Illite-Smectite
Phases in Cretaceous Sediments as Evident from K-Ar Dating.
12.50: S. Shoval (Israel) : Clay Sedimentation along the Southeastern Tethyan
Margin during the Rifting and the Primary Divergence Stage of the Neo-Tethys
(Middle Triassic to Lower Albian).
13.15-14.45: Lunch
Chairman: Prof. Arieh Singer
15:00: V.D. Mats (Israel), T.K. Lomonosova, G.A. Vorobyeva & L.Z. Granina
(Russia) : Cenozoic Clay Minerals of the Baikal Region (Eastern Siberia) in
Relation with Nature Changes.
15.25: J. Ganor, C. Jordi & M. Volker (Israel) : Understanding the
Combined Effect of pH and Temperature on Kaolinite Dissolution Rate under
Acidic Conditions.
15.50: N. Taitel-Goldman (Israel), C.B. Koch (Denmark) & A. Singer (Israel) :
Si-Associated Goethite in Hydrothermal Sediments of the Atlantis II and
Thetis Deeps, Red Sea.
16.15: A. Neaman, B. Waller, F. Mouele, F. Trolard & G. Bourrie (France) :
Improved Methods for Selective Dissolution of Manganese Oxides from Soils
and Rocks by Hydroxylamine Hydrochloride and Hydrogen Peroxide.
16.40: Coffee break
Seventh Session - Clay deposits and their applications : Ceramics and Archeology.
Chairman: Dr. Jiwchar Ganor
17.00: S. Mishirqi (Israel): Industrial Applications of Clays.
17.25: A. Aras (Turkey) : The Change of Phase Composition in Kaolinite- and
Illite-Rich Clay Based Ceramic Bodies.
17.50: A. Deliormanli & Z. Yayla (Turkey) : Effects of Calcium Hydroxide on
Casting Properties of Ceramic Clay Suspensions.
19.45: Farewell Dinner
Farewell dinner: (from left to right) A. Aras (Turkey), A. Langier-Kuzniarowa (Poland), A. Deliormanli (Turkey), B. Smieja-Krol, E. Stepkowska (Poland), R. Salomon, S. Yariv (Israel), J. Kristof (Hungary), A. Hein (Greece), A. Neaman (France), S. Salomon (Israel)
Farewell dinner: (from left to right) E. Stepkowska (Poland), S. Yariv (Israel), J. Kristof (Hungary), S. Nir (Israel), M. and I. Lapides (Israel), S. Salomon, L. Heller-Kallai (Israel), E. Stepkowska (Poland) and Z. Kallai (Israel).
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Scientific Program
Home Objectives Scientific Program Organizing Committees Appl.Clay Sci. Special Issue Participants Contact us
Shlomo Nir, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ,Chairman
Zev Gerstl, ARO, Volcani Center, Scientific Chairman
Isaak Lapides, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Samih Mishirqi, Cycle Group, Nazareth
Giora Rytwo, Tel-Hai Academic College
Amir Sandler, Geological Survey of Israel
Shlomo Shoval, The Open University of Israel
Shmuel Yariv, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mediterranean Organizing Committee
Faiza Bergaya (Secretary of the European Clay Groups Association), France
Pilar Aranda, Spain
George E. Christidis ,Greece
Celso F. Gomes, Portugal
Jose Luis Perez Rodriguez, Spain
Luciano Tomadin, Italy
Asuman Turkmenoglu,Turkey
Jacques Yvon, France
Scientific Advisory Board
Gerhard Lagaly, (President of the European Clay Groups Association), Germany
Vladimir Balek, Czech Republic
Juan Cornejo Suero, Spain
Victor C. Farmer, UK
Claude Forano, France
Emilio Galˆ°n (Vice-President of AIPEA), Spain
Janos Kristof, Hungary
Anna Langier Kuzniarowa, Poland
Kirk H. Michaelian, Canada
Eduardo Ruiz-Hitzky, Spain
Robert Schoonheydt, Belgium
Jose Maria Serratosa, Spain
Home Objectives Scientific Program Organizing Committees Appl.Clay Sci. Special Issue Participants Contact us
ProceedingsThe Journal of Applied Clay Science will devote a special issue to papers submitted by the participants of the Conference. All papers will be refereed by two expert and independent referees as ordinary papers of the Journal.
Manuscripts may also be sent by those who sent Abstracts, but did not attend the Conference.
In case you did not bring manuscripts to the Conference , please send manuscripts in topics #1, 2, 6 to Dr. Shlomo Shoval (Guest Editor), Geology Group, Department of Natural Sciences, The Open University of Israel, 16 Klausner St., Tel-Aviv 61392, Israel before December 31st, 2002. Manuscripts in topics #3, 4, 5 should be sent to Prof. Shlomo Nir (Guest Editor), Dept. of Soil & Water Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, P.O. Box 12, Rehovot 76100,Israel before December 15, 2002.
Instructions for preparation of manuscripts are given in:
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/apclaysci/
Topics:
Home Objectives Scientific Program Organizing Committees Appl.Clay Sci. Special Issue Participants Contact us
Participants of the 3rd Mediterranean Clay Meeting
Jerusalem
September 30 ’Äì October 3, 2002
Name |
Affiliation |
E-mail Address |
Aras, Aydn |
MTA MAT Dairesi Mineraloji ve Petrografi Servisi, Turkey |
|
Banin, Uri |
The Hebrew Univ., Israel |
|
Ben-Yair, Moshe |
Israel, Petach-Tiqwa, 114 Rothschild St. Tel:03-9221194 |
|
Borisover, Mikhail |
The Volcani Center, Israel |
|
Deliormanli, Aylin |
Izmir Inst. of Technology, Turkey |
|
Deutsch, Yoetz |
The Geological Survey, Israel |
|
El-Nahhal, Yasser |
EPRI, Gaza, PNA |
|
Epstein, Malka |
Tel-Hai Tech. College, Israel |
|
Forano, Claude |
CNRS UMR 6002, Univ. Blaise Pascal, France |
|
Friedman, Shmulik |
The Volcani Center, Israel |
|
Ganor, Jiwchar |
Ben-Gurion Univ., Israel |
|
Gerstl, Zev |
The Volcani Center, Israel |
|
Graber, Ellen |
The Volcani Center, Israel |
|
Groisman, Ludmila |
Ministry of Health, Israel |
|
Hein, Anno |
N.C.S.R. ’ÄúDemokritos’Äù, Greece |
|
Heller-Kallai, Lisa |
The Hebrew Univ., Israel |
|
Hochman, Ziva |
The Hebrew Univ., Israel |
|
Kristof, Janos |
Univ. of Veszprem, Hungary |
|
Lado, Marcos (Spain) |
The Volcani Center, Israel |
|
Lapides, Isaak |
The Hebrew Univ. Israel |
|
Langier-Kuzniarowa, Anna |
Polish Geological Institute |
|
Mats, Victor |
Israel |
|
Mishael, Yael |
The Hebrew Univ., Israel |
|
Mishirqi, Samih |
Cycle Group, Israel |
|
Nasser, Ahmed |
The Volcani Center, Israel |
|
Neaman, Alexander |
INRA, France |
|
Nir, Shlomo |
The Hebrew Univ., Israel |
|
Polubesova, Tamara |
The Hebrew Univ., Israel |
|
Rabinowitz, Onn |
The Hebrew Univ., Israel |
|
Rav-Acha, Chaim |
Israel Ministry of Health |
|
Ren, Ping (China) |
The Hebrew Univ., Israel |
|
Ritvo, Gad |
The Israel Institute of Technology ’Äì Technion, Israel |
|
Rytwo, Giora |
Tel-Hai Technological College, Israel |
|
Salomon, Sue |
The Hebrew Univ., Israel |
|
Sandler, Amir |
Geological Survey of Israel |
|
Sasson, Yoel |
The Hebrew Univ., Israel |
|
Schoonheydt, Robert |
Katholieke Univ., Leuven, Belgium |
|
Schroder, Malcolm |
The Hebrew Univ., Israel |
|
Serban, Carina |
The Hebrew Univ., Israel |
|
Shuali, Uri |
Israel Biological Institute |
|
Singer, Arieh |
The Hebrew Univ., Israel |
|
Shoval, Shlomo |
The Open Univ., Israel |
|
Smieja Krol, Beata |
Silesian University, Poland |
|
Stepkowska, Ewa |
Institute of Hydro-Engineering PAS, Poland |
|
Taitel-Goldman, Nurit |
The Open Univ., Israel |
|
Tavasi, Moti |
The Hebrew Univ., Israel |
|
Yariv, Shmuel |
The Hebrew Univ., Israel |
Home Objectives Scientific Program Organizing Committees Appl.Clay Sci. Special Issue Participants Contact us
Any comments, suggestions or remarks on the web site, please send to Giora Rytwo at
rytwo@telhai.ac.il FONT>Home Objectives Scientific Program Organizing Committees Appl.Clay Sci. Special Issue Participants Contact us