10th International Conference on Acid Deposition

ACID RAIN 2020
The Future Environment and Role of Multiple Air Pollutants
October 19 – 23 (Monday – Friday), 2020
Toki Messe, Niigata Convention Center,Niigata City, JapanACID RAIN conference is one of the historical international conferences since 1970’s, which arerelated to acid rain, air pollutions and their influences on the environments. The conference has been
held nine times since 1975 basically every five years.
The upcoming conference is entitled “ACID RAIN 2020: The Future Environment and Role of Multiple
Air Pollutants”, which covers issues not only specific to acid rain but also a wide range of scientifictopics relating to various air pollutants, including ozone, particulate matters, etc. We hope that thebroader scope will activate the conference and deepen acid rain research as well.

NiigataOrganized by:
Scientific Steering Committee
International Scientific Advisory Board
Organizing Committee

Co-organized by:International Union of Forest Research Organizations, IUFROJapan Society for Atmospheric Environment
Japanese Society of Biogeochemistry
The Japanese Society of Limnology
Japanese Society of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition

Supported by:
The Ecological Society of JapanThe Geochemical Society of Japan
Japan Geoscience Union
The Japanese Forest Society
The Japanese Society of Forest Environment
Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources
Japan Society on Water Environment

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Session topics:• Emissions and their Evaluation by
Monitoring and Modeling• Long-range Transport and Modeling• Urban and regional air pollution bymultiple pollutants in Asia
• Wet, Dry, and Occult Deposition• Deposition of Air Pollutants and theirtoxicity• Effects of Atmospheric Deposition andMultiple Pollutants on Terrestrial
Ecosystems (including biodiversity,ecosystem functions, physiology,microbes, etc.)• Effects of Atmospheric Deposition andMultiple Pollutants on AquaticEcosystems (including biodiversity,ecosystem functions, physiology, etc.)• Status and Trends of Surface WaterChemistry• Long-term trends of acidification andrecovery• Atmospheric Reactive Nitrogen
Embedded in the Planetary Boundaries• Recovery from Acidification and AlteredSulfur Dynamics in Ecosystems• Biogeochemical Cycling and its relation toacidification in Ecosystems• Acidification and Trace Elements• Acid deposition impacts on urban
ecosystems• Effects of acid deposition on carbon cycle• Ecosystem Management and Restoration
in Response to Air Pollutant Impacts• Environmental Isotopes in Acid Rain
• Effects of Air Pollutants on ClimateChange• Climate Change Impacts on Weatheringand Critical Load (including chemical andbiological processes of ecosystems)• Critical load mapping and dynamicmodeling• Recovery from acidification and its
modelling• Linkages among Multiple Pollutants andElements in the Environments• Air Pollution and their Effects onMaterials and Cultural Heritage• Progress and Application of the Integrated
Assessment Model in Europe, USA andAsia• Towards Clean Air Policies and Its HumanHealth Effects• Progress in Regional Transboundary AirPollution Governance?

Preliminary conference schedule:

Key dates:

October 19, 2020: Special event
Inter-regional workshop on scientificoutcomes from monitoring networks foratmospheric deposition and air pollution(tentative title)
October 20, 2020:
Opening Ceremony
Keynote Speech in Plenary Session
Parallel Breakout Sessions
October 21-22, 2020:
Keynote Speech in Plenary Session
Parallel Breakout Sessions
October 23, 2020:
Keynote Speech in Plenary Session
Closing Ceremony

April 2019:
Second circular
October 2019: Abstract submission/Registration openApril 2020:
Abstract submission close
May 2020:
Early bird registration close

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