2011
1. GEMAS atlas publications
REIMANN, C., FLEM, B., FABIAN, K., BIRKE, M., LADENBERGER, A., NEGREL, P.,
DEMETRIADES, A., HOOGEWERFF, J., The GEMAS PROJECT TEAM (2012): Lead and
lead isotopes in agricultural soils of Europe – The continental perspective. Applied
Geochemistry, 27, 532-542.
SCHEIB, A., FLIGHT, D.M.A., BIRKE, M., TARVAINEN, T., LOCUTURA, J. THE
GEMAS PROJECT TEAM (2012): The geochemistry of niobium and its distribution and
relative mobility in agricultural soils of Europe. Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment,
Analysis, Vol. 12, 293-302.
REIMANN; C., DEMETRIADES, A., BIRKE, M., EGGEN, O.A., FILZMOSER, P.,
KRIETE, C. and the EGS Geochemistry Expert Group (2012): NGU Report 2012.051: The
Euro GeoSurveys Geochemical Mapping of Agricultural and Grazing Land Soils (GEMAS) –
Third quality control report.
OTTESEN, R.T., BIRKE, M., FINNE, T.E., GOSAR, M., LOCUTURA, J., Reimann, C.,
TARVAINEN, T. and The GEMAS Project Team (2013): Mercury in European agricultural
and grazing land soils, Applied Geochemistry Vol. 33, 1-12.
TARVAINEN, T., ALBANESE, S., BIRKE, M., PONAVNIC, M., REIMANN, C. and The
GEMAS Project Team (2013): Arsenic in agricultural and grazing land soils of Europe.
Applied Geochemistry, Vol. 28, 2-10.
SCHEIB, A., BIRKE, M., DINELLI, E. and GEMAS Project Team (2013): Geochemical
evidence of aeolian deposits in European soils. BOREAS, An International Journal of
Quaternary Research, 1-18.
CICCHELLA, D., LIMA, A., BIRKE, M., DEMETRIADES, A., Wang, X., DE VIVO, B.
(2013): Mapping geochemical patterns at regional to continental scales using composite
samples to reduce the analytical costs, Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 124, 79-91.
2. Oral presentations and posters
REIMANN, C., FLEM, B., BIRKE, M., LADENBERGER, A., NEGREL, P., HOOGEWERFF, J. and the EuroGeoSurveys Geochemistry Expert Group (2011): Lead and lead
isotopes in agricultural soils of Europe – the lead isotopic geochemical landscape of Europe.
9th International Symposium on Applied Isotope Geochemistry, Tarragona, Spain 19-23 Sept.
2011. Otero, N., Soler, A. Audi, C. (eds.) Book of Abstracts, p.113, oral presentation.
DEMETRIADES, A., REIMANN, C., BIRKE, M. and The EuroGeoSurveys
Geochemistry Expert Group, 2011. Geochemical mapping of European agricultural and
grazing land soil. SEGH 2011 Book of abstracts, 5-6, oral presentation.
http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/documents/segh2011/BookOfAbstracts.pdf
REIMANN, C., BIRKE, M., DEMETRIADES, A., BUSH, A., VEROUGSTRAETE, V. and
SCHOETERS, I., 2011. GEMAS: Mapping soil properties and metal concentrations in
agricultural and grazing land soil at the European scale. 11th ICOBTE – 11th International
Conference on the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements, Congress Centre, Florence, Italy, 3-7
July, 2011, oral presentation, http://www.icobte2011.com/
ĎURIS, M., PONAVIC, M., REIMANN, C., DEMETRIADES, A., BIRKE, M. and the
EuroGeoSurveys Geochemistry Expert Group, 2011. Soil sampling procedure of the
EuroGeoSurveys project ‘Geochemical Mapping of agricultural and grazing land soil of
Europe’. In: Jakšík, O., Klement, A. and Borůvka, L. (Editors), Book of abstracts:
Pedometrics 2011 – Innovations in Pedometrics. Pedometrics Commission of the IUSS,
Czech University of Life Sciences and Czech Society of Soil Science, Prague, 62. Czech
Republic, 31 August – 3 September, 2011, poster.
http://sites.google.com/site/pedometrics2011/download
2012
1. GEMAS atlas publications
Reimann, C., Demetriades, A., Birke, M., Eggen, O. A., Filzmoser, P., Kriete, C. &
EuroGeoSurveys Geochemistry Expert Group, 2012. The EuroGeoSurveys Geochemical
Mapping of Agricultural and grazing land Soils project (GEMAS) – Evaluation of quality
control results of particle size estimation by MIR prediction, Pb-isotope and MMI®
extraction analyses and results of the GEMAS ring test for the standards Ap and Gr. NGU
Report 2012.051, 136 pp.
http://www.ngu.no/upload/Publikasjoner/Rapporter/2012/2012_051.pdf (last access 28
January 2013).
Caritat, de P., Reimann, C., NGSA Project Team and GEMAS Project Team, 2012.
Comparing results from two continental geochemical surveys to world soil composition and
deriving Predicted Empirical Global Soil (PEGS2) reference values. Earth and Planetary
Science Letters, 319-320, 269-276.
Reimann, C., Cartitat de, P., GEMAS Project Team and NGSA Project team, 2012. New soil
compositional data for Europe and Australia: Demonstrating comparability, identifying
continental-scale processes and learning lessons for global geochemical mapping. Science
of The Total Environment, 416, 239-252.
Reimann, C., Flem, B., Fabian, K., Birke, M., Ladenberger, A., Negrel, P., Demetriades, A.,
Hoogewerff, J. and The GEMAS Project Team, 2012. Lead and lead isotopes in agricultural
soils of Europe – The continental perspective. Applied Geochemistry, 27(3), 532-542.
Reimann, C., Filzmoser, P., Fabian, K., Hron, K., Birke, M., Demetriades, A., Dinelli, E.,
Ladenberger, A. & The GEMAS Project Team, 2012. The concept of compositional data
analysis in practice — Total major element concentrations in agricultural and grazing land
soils of Europe. Science of The Total Environment, 426, 196-210.
Scheib, A.J., Flight, D.M.A., Birke, M., Tarvainen, T., Locutura, J. & GEMAS Project Team,
2012. The geochemistry of niobium and its distribution and relative mobility in agricultural
soils of Europe. Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis, 12, 293-302.
Reimann, C., Demetriades, A., Birke, M., Eggen, O. A., Filzmoser, P., Kriete, C. &
EuroGeoSurveys Geochemistry Expert Group, 2012. The EuroGeoSurveys Geochemical
Mapping of Agricultural and grazing land Soils project (GEMAS) – Evaluation of quality
control results of particle size estimation by MIR prediction, Pb-isotope and MMI®
extraction analyses and results of the GEMAS ring test for the standards Ap and Gr. NGU
Report 2012.051, 136 pp.
http://www.ngu.no/upload/Publikasjoner/Rapporter/2012/2012_051.pdf
2.Oral presentations and posters
BIRKE, M.; REIMANN, C., RAUCH, U., DINELLI, E., DEMETRIADES, A. KLOS, V. and
the GEMAS Project Team (2012): GEMAS: Geochemical Mapping of agricultural and
grazing land soils at the European and national scales. Abstract Book, 6th SETAC World
Congress/SETAC Europe 22nd Annual Meeting, 20-24 May 2012, Berlin, pp: 35,
http://berlin.setac.eu, oral presentation
DINELLI, E., BIRKE, M., REIMANN, C., DEMETRIADES, A., DE VIVO, B. and the
GEMAS Project Team (2012): Comparison of XRF and aqua regia data from agricultural soil
in Europe: results from the GEMAS project. Abstract Book, 6th SETAC World
Congress/SETAC Europe 22nd Annual Meeting, 20-24 May, Berlin pp. 35, oral presentation,
http://berlin.setac.eu
REIMANN, C., FLEM, B., FABIAN, K., BIRKE, M., LADENBERGER, A., NEGREL, P.,
DEMETRIADES, A., HOOGENWERFF, J. and the GEMAS Project Team (2012): Lead and
lead isotopes in agricultural soils of Europe: natural distribution or contamination? Abstract
Book, 6th SETAC World Congress/SETAC Europe 22nd Annual Meeting, 20-24 May, Berlin
pp. 42, oral presentation, http://berlin.setac.eu
KRIETE, C., REIMANN, C., BIRKE, M., DEMETRIADES, A. (2012): Quality assurance in
the GEMAS project and results of the connected proficiency test. 6th SETAC World
Congress/SETAC Europe 22nd Annual Meeting, 20-24 May, Berlin pp. 42, oral presentation,
http://berlin.setac.eu
BIRKE, M:, RAUCH, U., STUMMEYER, J., KORTE, F., KEILERT, B. (2012): Urban
Geochemistry of the Berlin Metropolitan Area. 6th SETAC World Congress/SETAC Europe
22nd Annual Meeting, 20-24 May, Berlin pp. 462-463, poster, http://berlin.setac.eu
DINELLI, E., BIRKE, M., REIMANN, C., DEMETRIADES, A., DE VIVO, B. and the
GEMAS Project Team (2012): GEMAS project – interesting results from comparison of aqua
regia and total element concentrations in European agricultural soil. S. Scappini and S.
Zapparoli (Editors), 2012. 7th EUROGEO: European Congress on Regional Geoscientific
Carthography and Information Systems, 12-15 June 2012, Bologna, Italy, Proceedings,
Volume II, 669-670, keynote lecture, http://geo.regione.emiliaromagna.it/gstatico/documenti/eurogeo/7th_EUREGEO_Volume_2.pdf
DE VIVO, B., ALBANESE, S., LIMA, A., REIMANN, C., BIRKE, M., SCHOETERS, I.,
DEMETRIADES, A. and the GEMAS Project Team (2012): The GEMAS Project:
Geochemistry of European agricultural and grazing land soils. S. Scappini and S. Zapparoli
(Editors), 2012. 7th EUROGEO: European Congress on Regional Geoscientific Carthography
and Information Systems, 12-15 June 2012, Bologna, Italy, Proceedings, Volume II, 667-668,
keynote lecture, http://geo.regione.emiliaromagna.it/gstatico/documenti/eurogeo/7th_EUREGEO_Volume_2.pdf
DINELLI, E., BIRKE, M., REIMANN, C., DEMETRIADES, A., DE VIVO, B. and the
GEMAS Project Team (2012): The GEMAS project: results from the comparison of aqua
regia and XRF analysis. Abstract Book, 9th ISEG (International Symposium on
Environmental Geochemistry), 15-22 July 2012, Aveiro (Porto), Portugal, oral presentation
REIMANN, C., BIRKE, M., DEMETRIADES, A. and the GEMAS Project Team (2012):
GEMAS: mapping soil properties and metal concentrations in agricultural and grazing land
soil at the European scale. Abstract Book, 9th ISEG (International Symposium on
Environmental Geochemistry), 15-22 July 2012, Aveiro (Porto), Portugal, oral presentation
BIRKE, M., RAUCH, U: (2012): Environmental geochemistry analysis of German urban
areas for a sustainable development of cities. National Geochemistry Scientific Conference of
Ukraine, 21-22 August 2012, Kiev, Ukraine, keynote lecture
BIRKE, M., REIMANN, C., RAUCH, U., DINELLI, E., SCHEIB, A., DEMETRIADES, A.,
KLOS, V. and the GEMAS Project Team (2012): Geochemical mapping of agricultural and
grazing land soil at the European and national scales. National Geochemistry Scientific
Conference of Ukraine, 21-22 August 2012, Kiev, Ukraine, oral presentation
BIRKE, M., RAUCH, U. (2012): Progress of geochemical mapping in Germany. National
Geochemistry Scientific Conference of Ukraine, 21-22 August 2012, Kiev, Ukraine, oral
presentation
REIMANN, C:, BIRKE, M., DEMETRIADES, A., JOHNSON, C.C., and the GEMAS
Project Team (2012): Geochemical atlas of European agricultural and grazing land soil.
Proceeding of the 34th International Geological Congress, 4.2 Session 2 – Global geochemical
mapping: understanding chemical earth (The 2nd Arthur Darnley Symposium), 5-10 August,
2012, Brisbane, Australia, keynote lecture
KRIETE, C., REIMANN, C., BIRKE, M., DEMETRIADES, A. and the GEMAS Project
Team (2012): Quality Assurence in the European Geochemical Mapping Project GEMAS.
Abstract Book, Geoanalysis 2012, 8th International Conference on the Analysis of Geological
and Environmental Materials, 16-20 September 2012, Buzios, Brazil, oral presentation
2013
1. GEMAS atlas publications
Martiya Sadeghi, M., Petrosino, P., Ladenberger , A., Albanese, S., Andersson, M., Morris,
G., Annamaria Lima, A., De Vivo, B., The GEMAS Project Team, 2013. Ce, La and Y
concentrations in agricultural and grazing-land soils of Europe. Journal of Geochemical
Exploration, 133, 202-213.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0375674212002695
Ottesen, R.T., Birke, M., Finne, T.E., Gosar, M., Locutur, J., Reimann, C., Tarvainen, T., The
GEMAS Project Team, 2013. Mercury in European agricultural and grazing land soils.
Applied Geochemistry, 33, 1–12.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883292712003514
Saalink, R., Griffioen, J., Mol, G., Birke, M., The GEMAS Project Team, 2013 Geogenic and
agricultural controls on the geochemical composition of European agricultural soils. Journal
of Soils and Sediments, DOI 10.1007/s11368-013-0779-y.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11368-013-0779-y
Soriano-Disla, J.M., Janik, L., Mclaughlin, M.J., Forrester, S., Kirby, J.K., Reimann, C., The
EuroGeoSurveys GEMAS Project Team, 2013. Diffuse reflectancemid-infrared spectroscopy
for the prediction of the concentration of chemical elements estimated by x-ray fluorescence
in agricultural and grazing european soils. Applied Geochemistry, 29, 135-143.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883292712003216
Soriano-Disla J.M., Janik L., McLaughlin M.J., Forrester S., Kirby J., Reimann C. and the
GEMAS Project Team, 2013. Prediction of the concentration of chemical elements extracted
by aqua regia in agricultural and grazing European soils using diffuse reflectance midinfrared spectroscopy. Applied Geochemistry, 39, 33-42.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883292713002370
Tarvainen, T., Albanese, S., Birke, M., Poňavič, M., Reimann, C., The GEMAS Project
Team, 2013. Arsenic in agricultural and grazing land soils of Europe. Applied
Geochemistry, 28, 2-10.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883292712002788
2. Oral presentations and posters
Demetriades, A., Reimann, C., Birke, M., Kaminari, M. & The GEMAS Project Team, 2013.
The soil geochemical atlas of the agricultural and grazing land areas of Europe. Scientific
meeting of the Geological Society of Greece, University of Athens, Argyriades amphitheatre,
1st April 2013
Demetriades, A., Reimann, C., Birke, M., EGG & GEMAS Teams, 2013. The
hydrogeochemical and soil geochemical atlases of Europe. 21st Panhellenic Meeting of
ArcGIS users, 23 & 24 May 2013, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Athens, Hellas. Organised by
Marathon Data Systems.
Reimann, C., Demetriades, A., Birke, M. & GEMAS Project Team, 2013. Chemistry of
Europe’s Agricultural Soil – The GEMAS Project. Keynote lecture, 30 min. Goldschmidt
2013, Florence, Italy, August 25-30, 2013. Abstract, Mineralogical Magazine, 77(5), 2045.
http://goldschmidtabstracts.info/2013/2045.pdf
Ladenberger, A., Uhlbäck, J., Andersson, M., Reimann, C., Tarvainen, T., Sadeghi, M.,
Morris, G. & Eklund, M., 2013. Elemental Patterns in Agricultural and Grazing Land Soils
in Norway, Finland and Sweden – What Have We Learned from Continental Scale Mapping?
Goldschmidt 2013, Florence, Italy, August 25-30, 2013. Abstract, Mineralogical Magazine,
77(5), 1537. http://goldschmidtabstracts.info/2013/1537.pdf
Cicchella, D., Albanese, S., Dinelli, E., Giaccio, L., Lima, A., Valera, P. & De Vivo, B., 2013.
Geochemical Atlas of Italian Soils. Goldschmidt 2013, Florence, Italy, August 25-30, 2013.
Abstract, Mineralogical Magazine, 77(5), 888. http://goldschmidtabstracts.info/2013/888.pdf
Dinelli, E., Albanese, V., Albanese, S., Birke, M., De Vivo, B., Gosar, M., Hasliger, E.,
Hayoz, P., Reitner, H. & Salpeteur, I., 2013. GEMAS Results at a Regional Scale: The Alps.
Goldschmidt 2013, Florence, Italy, August 25-30, 2013. Abstract, Mineralogical Magazine,
77(5) 991. http://goldschmidtabstracts.info/2013/991.pdf
Sadeghi, M., Petrosino, P., Andersson, M., Albanese, S., Ladenberger, A., Morris, G.A.,
Uhlbäck, J., Lima, A. & De Vivo, B., 2013. REE Contents in Soils and Sediments from the
GEMAS and FOREGS Data-Bases: Comparison between Different Geological Contexts in
Italy and Sweden. Goldschmidt 2013, Florence, Italy, August 25-30, 2013. Abstract,
Mineralogical Magazine, 77(5), 2111. http://goldschmidtabstracts.info/2013/2111.pdf
Birke, M., Reimann, C., Demetriades, A., Dinelli, E., Rauch, U. and the GEMAS Project
Team, 2013. Geochemical mapping at European scale – the GEMAS project. International
Workshop on Groundwater Systems in Europe, 22-23 August 2013, Berlin
http://www.bgr.bund.de/EN/Themen/Wasser/Veranstaltungen/workshop_ihme_2013/ihme2013_inhalt.html
Bel-lan, A., Locutura, J., Batista, M.J. & Martínez, S., 2013. Resultados del Proyecto
GEMAS en la Península Ibérica.
Reimann, C., Demetriades, A., Birke, M. & the GEMAS Project Team, 2013. Does low
density geochemistry (1 site/2500 km2) deliver relevant information for the explorationist?
Keynote lecture, 26th International Applied Geochemistry Symposium, 30 min., Rotorua,
New Zealand, Nov. 21, 2013, (http://www.gns.cri.nz/iags/)
Mann, C. Reimann, P. De Caritat, N. Turner and GEMAS Project Team, 2013. Mobile Metal
Ion (MMI®) geochemistry of European agricultural soils, (http://www.gns.cri.nz/iags/)
Reimann, C., Demetriades, A., Birke, M. & the GEMAS Project Team, 2013. Geochemical
Mapping of Agricultural and grazing land Soil of Europe – Selected results from the GEMAS
project. Invited lecture, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 25 November 2013
Reimann, C. and the GEMAS Project Team: GEMAS: Geochemical mapping of agricultural
and grazing land soil at the continental scale. Plenary lecture at the celebration of FAO’s
world soil day. Rome, Dec. 5, 2013.
EuroGeoSurveys Workshop: Geochemical mapping of agricultural and grazing land soil in
Europe (GEMAS), 5 December 2013, FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy.
Ilse Schoeters: The use of the GEMAS data for compliance with European Chemicals
Legislation, EuroGeoSurveys Workshop: Geochemical mapping of agricultural and grazing
land soil in Europe (GEMAS), 5 December 2013, FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy.
Koen Oorts: Use of monitoring data for risk assessment of metals in soil, EuroGeoSurveys
Workshop: Geochemical mapping of agricultural and grazing land soil in Europe (GEMAS),
5 December 2013, FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy.
Les J. Janik, Sean Forrester, Jason K. Kirby, Michael J. McLaughlin, José M. Soriano-Disla,
Clemens Reimann: Prediction of metal and metalloid partitioning coefficients (Kd) in soil
using mid-infrared diffuse reflectance spectroscop, EuroGeoSurveys Workshop:
Geochemical mapping of agricultural and grazing land soil in Europe (GEMAS), 5 December
2013, FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy.
Rainer Baritz, Dietmar Zirlewagen, Vibeke Ernstsen: Relevance of GEMAS for soil property
mapping, EuroGeoSurveys Workshop: Geochemical mapping of agricultural and grazing
land soil in Europe (GEMAS), 5 December 2013, FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy.
Anna Ladenberger: GEMAS - soil, geology and health implications, EuroGeoSurveys
Workshop: Geochemical mapping of agricultural and grazing land soil in Europe (GEMAS),
5 December 2013, FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy.
Timo Tarvainen, Tarja Hatakka, Merja Eurola: Field balances of trace elements at the farm
scale in Finland and levels of trace elements on the GEMAS map , EuroGeoSurveys
Workshop: Geochemical mapping of agricultural and grazing land soil in Europe (GEMAS),
5 December 2013, FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy.
Ray Scanlon, Katherine Knights, Mairead Glennon, Patrick O’Connor: Natural and
anthropogenic signatures in Irish soil: A view from the local to the continental scale,
EuroGeoSurveys Workshop: Geochemical mapping of agricultural and grazing land soil in
Europe (GEMAS), 5 December 2013, FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy.
Benedetto De Vivo, Dominico Cicchella, Stefano Albanese, Enrico Dinelli, Lucia Giaccio,
Annamaria Lima, Paolo Valera: The geochemical atlas of agricultural and grazing land soil
of Italy based on GEMAS samples, EuroGeoSurveys Workshop: Geochemical mapping of
agricultural and grazing land soil in Europe (GEMAS), 5 December 2013, FAO Headquarters,
Rome, Italy.
Laurel G. Woodruff, David B. Smith, William F. Cannon: Soil geochemistry and mineralogy
for the Conterminous United States – Results from the North American Soil Geochemical
Landscapes project, EuroGeoSurveys Workshop: Geochemical mapping of agricultural and
grazing land soil in Europe (GEMAS), 5 December 2013, FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy.
Rannveig Anna Guicharnaud, Luca Montanarella: Heavy metal concentrations in European
soil, EuroGeoSurveys Workshop: Geochemical mapping of agricultural and grazing land soil
in Europe (GEMAS), 5 December 2013, FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy.
Dee Flight, Andreas Scheib, The Geochemical Baselines Team: London's soil chemistry: A
continental scale anomaly,EuroGeoSurveys Workshop: Geochemical mapping of agricultural
and grazing land soil in Europe (GEMAS), 5 December 2013, FAO Headquarters, Rome,
Italy.
Ernstsen, V., Baritz, R., Reimann, C. & GEMAS Project Team, 2013. Organic carbon in
topsoil - first time fully harmonised at a European scale. EGU General Assembly 2013,
Geophysical Research Abstracts, 15, EGU2013,14241-1, European Geosciences Union
General Assembly 2013, Vienna, Austria, 07–12 April 2013, poster.
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2013/EGU2013-14241-1.pdf
2014
1. GEMAS atlas publications
REIMANN, C., BIRKE, M., DEMETRIADES, A., FILZMOSER, P. & O’CONNOR, P. (eds.) (2014):
Chemistry of Europe’s Agricultural Soils. Part A: Methodology and Interpretation of the
GEMAS Data Set.–
Geol. Jb., B 102: 528 pp., 357 figs., 86 Tables, 1 DVD; Hannover.
REIMANN, C., BIRKE, M., DEMETRIADES, A., FILZMOSER, P. & O’CONNOR, P. (eds.) (2014):
Chemistry of Europe’s Agricultural Soils. Part B: General Background Information and
Further Analysis of the GEMAS Data Set.–
Geol. Jb., B 103: 352 pp., 121 figs., 65 Tables, 3 App.; Hannover.