GRA is pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts for its upcoming symposium on Emerging Contaminants. Emerging chemical contaminants present numerous technical and institutional challenges to society and to environmental and public health professionals. Increasingly sensitive analytical techniques have detected the presence of previously unregulated chemicals in actual or potential sources of drinking water. In some cases, the impacts of these chemicals to human health and the environment are uncertain. Many of the emerging chemicals remain unregulated, but the number of regulated contaminants will continue to grow slowly over the next several decades.
GRA’s one and a half day event will profile the latest developments in detection, risk assessment, remediation and regulation of emerging contaminants in groundwater. Experts from academia, regulatory agencies, consulting, industry, and the legal arena will participate in moderated speaker sessions, poster sessions, and round-table panel discussions. Symposium sessions will cover a variety of topics, including the following:
- Overview of emerging contaminant classes, and physical and chemical properties of key contaminants
- Occurrence and sources of emerging contaminants in water
- Regulation of emerging contaminants in the United States and Europe
- Environmental fate and transport of emerging contaminants
- Analytical techniques for quantifying emerging contaminants in environmental samples
- Modeling tools
- Natural attenuation of emerging contaminants
- Human health effects from exposure to emerging contaminants
- Environmental and human risk assessment and management
- Innovative and cost-effective remediation and treatment technologies
- Green chemistry and preventing the emergence of new contaminants
Emerging contaminants to be covered include, but are not limited, to the following:
- Nanomaterials
- Pesticides/herbicides (e.g., 1,2,3-TCP)
- Pharmaceuticals, including antibiotics
- Phthalates
- Personal care products (e.g., polycyclic musks)
- Disinfection byproducts (e.g., NDMA)
- Industrial additives and byproducts (e.g., 1,4-dioxane, 1,2,3-TCP)
- Flame/fire retardants (e.g., PBDEs)
- Fluorinated compounds (e.g., PFOS)
GRA welcomes submittals of abstracts for papers and poster presentations on the topics outlined above. The deadline for submitting an abstract is August 10, 2008. Please feel free to contact the symposium co-chairs, Tom Mohr (408-265-2600) or Jennifer Nyman (510-735-3012) if you would like to discuss your topic for this symposium before submitting your abstract.
Student Paper Competition
A competition with cash scholarship prizes will be held for posters presented by students at the Symposium. Interested students should submit an abstract per the guidelines below.
Guidelines for submitting an abstract for a Paper or Poster Presentation are as follows:
- Word 9.0 documents are preferred.
- Please identify if you are submitting an abstract for a paper or poster presentation.
- Abstracts must be one page in length or less, and should be titled and include all contributing authors' names and affiliations.
- Please identify the name of the person who will be presenting the paper or poster, and add biographical sketches of the authors as a second page. The biosketches should be 50 words or less in paragraph form, and full mailing and e-mail addresses should be included in addition to other contact information (phone and fax numbers).
- Authors are required to indicate the topic for which the abstract is being submitted.
- Margins should be 1-inch top, bottom, and right side and 1 ¼-inch left margin. The text should be single-spaced, 10-point size, Arial font, with no pagination, footers and headers. Paragraphs should be justified.
- Major headings should be 12-point bold; minor headings should be 10-point italicized but not bolded. There should be one blank line above and below all headings, except above major headings which should have two blank lines.
- Graphics should not be used in abstracts.
By virtue of submitting an abstract, the submitter(s) grants GRA the right to publish any accepted abstract or the right to decline any abstract. You can submit your abstract by e-mail to Mary Megarry (mmegarry@nossaman.com; 916-446-3626) no later than August 10, 2008. The organizing committee made up of GRA members will review abstracts and make the final selections.
If you are interested in exhibiting your organization's services or products, or being an event sponsor, please contact Mary Megarry (mmegarry@nossaman.com; 916-446-3626). GRA welcomes co-sponsors as well as lunch, break, reception and student paper competition sponsors.
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