Note: Preliminary -- Part 1 / Plenary Lectures by IUPAC Scientists -- Advances in the Use of Synchrotron Radiation to Elucidate Environmental Interfacial Reaction Processes and Mechanisms in the Earth's Critical Zone -- Microbial Role in Global Biogeochemical Cycling of Metals and Metalloids at the Interfaces in the Earth's Critical Zone -- Session 1 / The Role of Mineral Colloids in Carbon Turnover and Sequestration and the Impact on Climate Change -- Soils as Source and Sink of Environmental Carbon Dioxide -- Impacts of Mineral Colloids on the Transformation of Biomolecules and Physical and Chemical Protection of Soil Organic Carbon -- Unravelling the Biogeochemical Cycles of Carbon and Nutrients in Forest Ecosystems: Innovative Approaches with Advanced Stable Isotope and NMR Techniques as well as Soil Chemical and Physical Methods -- Effects of Soil Management from Fallow to Grassland on Soil Microbial and Organic Carbon Dynamics -- Effect of Long-term Fertilization on the Sequestration Rate of Physical Fractions of Organic Carbon in Red Soil of Southern China -- Abiotic Catalysis of the Maillard and Polyphenol-Maillard Humification Pathways by Soil Clays from Temperate and Tropical Environments -- Effect of Organic Matter Application on CP-MAS-13C-NMR Spectra of Humic Acids from a Brown Soil -- The Composition and Organic Carbon Distribution of Organo-mineral Complex in a black Soil as Influenced by Land-use Change and Long-term Fertilization -- Characterization of Dissolved Organic Matter Derived from Rice Straw at Different Decay Stages -- Organic Fertility of Severely Eroded Soils: Effect of Organic and Inorganic Fertilization and Cropping Patterns -- Session 2 / Biogeochemical Interfacial Reactions and the Transformation, Transport and Fate of Vital and Toxic Elements. , Role of Biomolecules in Influencing Transformation Mechanisms of Metals and Metalloids in Soil Environments -- Biogeochemical Processes of Arsenic in Paddy Soils -- Soil Microorganism-mineral-organic Matter Interactions and the Impact on Metal Mobility -- Rhizosphere Processes and Management for Improving Nutrient Use Efficiency and Crop Productivity -- Effect of Soil Hg Stress on Expression of Heat Shock Protein Gene in Springtail Folsomia Candida -- Antimony, Arsenic and Other Toxic Elements in the Topsoil of an Antimony Mine Area -- Microcalorimetric and Potentiometric Titration Studies on the Adsorption of Copper by P. putida and B. thuringiensis and Their Composites with Minerals -- Sorption, Transformation and Migration of Zn in Some Soils with Percolated Water Regime -- Speciation and Biochemical Transformations of Sulfur and Copper in Rice Rhizosphere and Bulk Soil-XANES Evidence of Sulfur and Copper Associations -- Population Dynamics of Ammonia Oxidizing Bacteria and Archaea and Relationships with Nitrification Rate in New Zealand Grazed Grassland Soils -- Plant Clonal Systems as a Strategy for Nitrate Pollution Removal in Cold Latitudes -- Effect of Ionic Strength on Specific Adsorption of Ions by Variable Charge Soils: Experimental Testification on the Adsorption Model of Bowden et al. -- Estimation of the Electrostatic Repulsive Force among Charged Clay Particles in Aqueous Systems -- Kinetics of As(III) and Cr(III) Oxidation by OH-birnessites with Various Average Oxidation States (AOSs) -- Adsorption/Desorption Kinetics of Zn in Soils: Influence of Phosphate -- Bioavailability and Redistribution of Trace Metals in Soil Washed with a Sulfosuccinamate Formulation -- Fractions of Cd, Zn and Their Correlation with Soil Black Carbon in Contaminated Soils Affected by a Smelting Furnace. , Formation of the Metal Complexes between Protoporphyrin IX and Divalent Metal Cations in the Environment -- The Impact of Urban Activities on Heavy Metal Distribution and Bioavailability Index in Selected Tropical Urban Soils -- Nitrate Accumulation as Affected by Nitrogen Fertilization and Foliar Application of Micronutrients in Rocket Plant -- Fractions of Heave Metals in Paddy Fields and Their Spatial Relationship to Rice Plant -- Competitive Sorption of Nickel and Cadmium in Soils -- Interaction Effect between P and K Fertilization on Faba Bean Plant (Vicia faba L.) Grown under Salt Affected Soils -- Design of a POSS-modified Zeolite Structure and the Study of the Enhancement of Ammonia-nitrogen Removal from Drinking Water -- Study on Immobilizing Soil Exogenous Lead Using Phosphate Rock -- Long-term Fertilizer Application Alters the Balance and Vertical Distribution of Phosphorus in a Calcarosol -- Nitrate Nutrition But Not Rhizosphere pH Enhances Zinc Hyperaccumulation in Thlaspi caerulescens(Prayon) -- Adsorption of Phosphate and Arsenate on New Al13-Oxalate Precipitate: Spectroscopic and Macroscopic Competitive Adsorption Investigations -- Short-term Changes of pH Values and Aluminium Activity in Acid Soils after the Application of Nitrogen Fertilizers -- Transformation of Nitrogen and Its Effects on Metal Elements by Coated Urea Application in Soils from South China -- Impacts of Copper on Rice Growth and Yield as Affected by Pig Manure -- The Effects of Several Amendments on Forms of Lead and Its Uptake by Two Cultivars of Brassica Chinensis in an Acid Red Soil -- Does Iron Plaque Improve the Uptake and Translocation of Lead by Broad-leaf Cattail in Lead-contaminated Soils -- The Influence of Zn2+ and Mn2+ on Pb2+ Adsorption Behaviors of Birnessite -- Removal of Arsenite in Water Using Biogenic Schwertmannite as Adsorbent. , Wien Effect Measurements in Soil Colloidal Suspensions: A Novel Method for Characterizing the Interactions between Charged Particles and Counter Ions -- Can Zn, Ca and Sulfate Amendments Affect Cadmium Uptake in Rice (Oryza sativa L.) -- Dynamics of As Species in the Interface of Soil and Rice Roots under Three Water Regimes -- Extra Supply of Calcium Is Not Required for Maximal Root Growth in the Nitrate and Phosphorus-rich Patch in an Acid Soil -- Effect of Natural Acid Peat Application on the Phytoextraction of Cadmium from Contaminated Soils -- Session 3 / Anthropogenic Organics, Crop Protection and Ecotoxicology -- Interaction of Anthropogenic Organic Chemicals with Organic Matter in Natural Particles -- Decontamination of Soils through Immobilization of Anthropogenic Organics by Biotic and Abiotic Catalysts -- Effects of "Aging" on Bioreactive Chemical Retention, Transformation, and Transport in Soil -- Interaction of Bttoxin with Organo-mineral Surfaces and Consequences for Its Fate in the Environment -- Microbial and Abiotic Interactions between Transformation of Reducible Pollutants and Fe(II)/(III) Cycles -- Assessment of Availability of Phenanthrene and Pyrene in Aging Soil -- Levels, Distributions and Profiles of Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Paddy Fields from Two Towns in a Typical Electronic Waste Recycling Area of Eastern China -- Phytoremediation of Contaminated Soils with Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Its Ecologically Enhanced Techniques -- The Contribution of Rhizosphere to Remediation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) and Their Toxicity in Soil: Evaluating with Sequential Extraction and Toxicity Risk -- Spectral Studies of the Toxin of Bt Adsorbed by Minerals -- Genotypic Differences in Responses of Wheat (Triticum durum) Roots to Oxytetracycline. , Dynamics of Dissolved Organic Carbon in the Rhizosphere of Ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum L.) Induced by PCBs Pollution -- Dynamic Behavior of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Soil and Their Interaction with Organic Matter -- Effect of Crude Water Extract of Fructus Gleditsiae Sinensis on the Removal of Phenanthrene and Pyrene from Contaminated Soils -- Distribution Pattern, Sources and Potential Risks of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Urban Soils of Fuzhou City, China -- Thermal Degradation of Chloroteracycline in Animal Manure and Soil -- Enhancement of Atrazine Degradation in Paddy Soils by Organic Amendments -- Session 4 / Environmental Nanoparticles: Distribution, Formation, Transformation, Structural and Surface Chemistry, and Biogeochemical and Ecological Impacts -- Soil Science at the Nanoscale: A New View of Structure, Stability, and Reactivity -- Environmental and Colloidal Behavior of Engineered Nanoparticles -- Humic Substances as Natural Nanoparticles Ubiquitous in the Environment -- Degradation of Organochlorine Compounds Using Zero Valent Iron (ZVI) Nano Particles Impregnated in Hydrophobic Modified Bentonite -- Effect of Electrolyte on Adsorption/Desorption of Cu2+ on Nano-particle Mn Oxide -- Sorption of Selected Organic Compounds in Two Black Carbon Particles -- Adsorption and Inhibition of Butyrylcholinesterase by Different Nanoparticles -- Characterization of Soil Clay Minerals Using Mid-infrared Spectroscopy -- Investigation Mechanism of MTBE on Wall of Carbon Nanotube (CNT) to Other Products from Air-groundwater (in Environment): MNDO -- Extraction of Nanoparticles from Argosols and Ferrosols -- Surface and Adsorption Characteristics of Black Carbon from Different Sources -- A High-resolution TEM Investigation of Nanoparticles in Soils -- Adsorption and Desorption of Tylosin on the Colloidal Fractions of Black Soil. , Session 5 / Environmental Processes and Ecosystem Health.