| Speaker | Title |
| P. MacCarthy | A brief history of the International Humic Substances Society |
| R. L. Wershaw | Establishment of a web-based NOM forum for the rapid publication and discussion of extended abstracts |
| A. C. Scheinost | Synchrotron-based X-ray absorption spectroscopy and microscopy to study humic substances in soil |
| G. Buckau, M. Wolf, S. Geyer, R. Artinger and J.I. Kim | Humic colloids in the Gorleben aquifer system |
| J. Burdon | Traditional structures for humic substances - should we abandon them? |
| P. Schmitt-Kopplin, N. Hertkorn, A. Kettrup, J. Junkers, G. Ping, Y. Zhang, E. M. Perdue and Y. Chen | Capillary zone electrophoresis - electrospray ionization / mass spectrometry (CZE-ESI/MS) of natural organic matter (NOM) |
| F. J. von Willert and R. C. Stehouwer | Capillary electrophoresis can detect negatively charged dissolved organic matter colloids at acidic pH |
| L. B. McGown and J. D. Hewitt | Characterization of humic substances using capillary electrophoresis with fluorescence lifetime detection |
| C. Richard, O. Trubetskaya, O. Trubetskoj, J-P. Aguer and G. Guyot | Fluorescence and photoinductive efficiency of soil humic acids and fractions obtained by tandem SEC-PAGE |
| Dula Amarasiriwardena, J. Bell, A. Siripinyanond, B. Xing, and R. M. Barnes | Investigation of colloidal and trace metal complexation characteristics of soil and sediment-derived fulvic acids by flow field-flow fractionation - inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (Flow FFFICP- MS) |
| D. C. Olk | Chemical extraction of humic acids based on binding to polyvalent cations |
| I. V. Perminova | Quantitative analysis and predictive modeling of the properties of humic substances as a gateway to their practical applications |
| K. Kalbitz, D. Schwesig, J. Schmerwitz, B. Glaser, R. Ellerbrock and P. Leinweber | Properties of dissolved organic matter related to the dynamics of its biodegradation |
| W. T. Cooper, A. Stenson, and A. G. Marshall | Identification of molecular formulas of individual humic molecules by electrospray ionization and high-field Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry |
| M. S. Diallo, A. Simpson, J. L. Faulon, P. Gassman, W. A. Goddard III, J. H. Johnson, Jr., and P. G Hatcher | Unraveling the 3-D structures of humic substances through experimental characterization, computer assisted structure elucidation and atomistic sumulations |
| L. Li, Y. Ran, G. Sheng, J. Fu, P. Peng, and W. Huang | Characterization of humic acids progressively base extracted from Pahokee peat |
| C. Deport, L. Lemée, and A.Amblčs | Characterization of humic acids and humin using transalkylation and mild oxidation reactions |
| D. F. W. Naafs, P. F. van Bergen, and J. W. de Leeuw | Aliphatics in andosols: a detailed molecular approach |
| I. Kögel-Knabner | Advances in the understanding of organic matter stabilization processes in soils: chemolytic techniques combined with 13C NMR spectroscopy |
| L. Martin-Neto, C. N. Pillon, and J. Mielniczuk | Qualitative changes of soil organic matter detected by 13C NMR and ESR in areas under carbon sequestration in Brazil |
| N. Hertkorn, I. Perminova, D. Kovalevskii, and A. Kettrup | Proton homonuclear two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy of humic substances with extreme resolution and sensitivity |
| R. L. Cook, D. D. McIntyre, C. H. Langford, and H. J. Vogel | Cryoprobe versus ultrahigh field NMR in the study of humic materials |
| H. Knicker, A. Behrens, N. Maie, C. Engelke and I. Kögel-Knabner | Degradation of condensed tannins as revealed by 13C-NMR spectroscopy and MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry |
| J. A. Ferreira, L. Martin-Neto, O. R. Nascimento and L. A. Colnago | Hydrophobic sites in humic acid as detected by ESR of spin-label stearic acid, 13C NMR of labeled oleic acid and pyrene fluorescence |
| R. C. DeLapp, K. D. Young, and E. J. LeBoeuf | Thermodynamic properties of soil- and sediment-derived natural organic materials |
| Y. Lu and J. Pignatello | Demonstration of the "conditioning effect" in soil organic matter and support for a pore deformation mechanism for sorption hysteresis |
| R. D. Vogt, J. Akkanen, E. Gjessing, J. Kukkonen, S. Pflugmacher, C. Steinberg, and A. Zolnay | Correlations between DOM characterisation parameters and key descriptive parameters of the watershed |
| A. S. Gunasekara, M. J. Salloum, L. C. Dickinson, and B. Xing | Observation of multiple sorption domains in humic substances using NMR spectroscopy and sorption studies; application to structure configuration |
| C. Liu and P. M. Huang | Kinetics of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) adsorption by metal oxides, metal oxide-humic complexes and humic acid |
| E. Illés and E. Tombácz | Effect of humic acid adsorption on the aggregation of magnetite nanoparticles |
| M. Borisover and E. R. Graber | Simplified link solvation model (LSM) for sorption in natural organic matter |
| E. O’Loughlin, H. Ma, and D. Burris | Catalytic effects of Ni-humic complexes on the reductive dehalogenation of chlorinated alkanes and alkenes |
| K. M. Elkins, E. Larivee, and D. J. Nelson | Spectroscopic characterization of the interaction of Al3+ and Pd2+ with Suwannee River fulvic acid |
| S. Sachs, K. Schmeide, K.-H. Heise, and G. Bernhard | Synthetic humic acids: a useful tool to study the interaction of humic acids with actinides in the environment |
| A. van Zomeren and R. N. J. Comans | Contribution of natural oranic matter to copper leaching from municipal solid waste incinerator bottom ash |
| V. Moulin | The role of humic substances in trace element mobility in natural environments and applications for radionuclides |
| M. U. Kumke, H.-G. Löhmannsröben, S. Eidner, and G. Korshin | Inter-lanthanide luminescence resonance energy transfer in humic substances |
| L. da Silva, A. R. S. Oliveira, and A. S. Mangrich | Environmental pollution level as determined by EPR spectroscopy analyses and oxidation power of humic acids extracted from aquatic (under mangrove forest) sediment samples |
| C. H. Langford, T. Todoruk, M. Litvina, and A. Kantzas | Wetting cycles of air-dried and "hydrophobic" soils studied by NMR relaxometry - the role of humic substances |
| G. E. Schaumann, J. Hurrass, S. Berger, K. Sieg, J. Weber, H. Stoffregen, M. Mueller, and W. Rotard | Swelling of soil organic matter in humic soil samples: methods and relevance |
| J. A. Pedersen, L. E. Schweitzer, C.-H. M. Lin, and I. H. Suffet | Nonpolar organic contaminant association with humic substances in anoxic aquatic sediments: effects of aeration on PCB distribution, mobility and bioavailability |
| L. Tremblay, S. D. Kohl, J. A. Rice, and J.-P. Gagné | Effects of lipids on the nonlinear sorption of phenanthrene by sedimentary humic substances |
| L. Persson, T. Alsberg, A. Ledin, and G. Odham | SPME as a method to study partitioning processes in natural samples with high salt concentrations |
| A. Simpson, W. Kingery, E. Foan, and P. Hatcher | The fundamentals of humic substances, and their humic-clay complexes - insights in humin, soil formation, and the reactive soil interface |
| K. M. Haider | Mechanisms for the stabilization of soil organic matter |
| C. Wiegand, N. Meems and C. E. W. Steinberg | More evidence for humic substances acting as biogeochemicals on organisms |
| M. Fukushima, A. Sawada, M. Kawasaki, H. Ichikawa, K. Morimoto, K. Tatsumi, and S. Tanaka | Enhancement in biomimetic oxidation of pentachlorophenol by the addition of humic substances and its application to soil remediation |
| T. Brinkmann, D. Sartorius, P. Hörsch and F. H. Frimmel | Formation of low molecular weight organic acids from dissolved organic matter by irradiation with simulated solar UV-light |
| J. Diekow, J. Mielniczuk, H. Knicker, D. P. Dick, and I. Kögel-Knabner | Soil organic matter storage and stability promoted by cropping systems under no-tillage in southern Brazil |
| S. A. El-Shall | Response of field crops and fruit trees to application of Actosol®, a humic acid fertilizer, under Egyptian conditions |
| H. Shindo, T. Honna, S.Yamamoto and H.Honma | Distribution of charred plant fragments in Japanese volcanic ash soils with reference to origins of black humic acids |
| R. A. Brown, A. K. Kercher, T. H. Nguyen, D. C. Nagle, and W. P. Ball | Wood char as a potential sorbent in soils: char properties as a function of production conditions |
| R. W. Kramer, E. B. Kujawinski, and P. G. Hatcher | Characterization of a humic acid from a volcanic ash soil in Japan by Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FT-ICR MS): black carbon as a potential source |
| D. A. Reckhow | Formation of halogenated compounds from the reactions of chlorine with humic substances |
| D. E. Smeulders and M. A. Wilson | Crystal surface and humic material effects on crystallization |
| D. S. Walia and A. K. Fataftah | Ask not what humic acid is: ask what it can do for us |