 Micropollutants (also referred to as emerging contaminants, trace organic compounds, microconstituents, contaminants of emerging concern, etc.) include pharmaceuticals, ingredients of personal care products, biocides, fluorinated compounds, disinfection byproducts, nanomaterials and industrial additives. The presence of these compounds in wastewater, surface water, sediments, soils, groundwater and drinking water presents numerous technical and institutional challenges to society and environmental and public health professionals. In June 2007, the Micropol & Ecohazard 2007 conference in Germany provided an international platform for drinking water and wastewater engineers, environmental chemists, water and wastewater utility managers, hydrogeologists, and ecotoxicologists to discuss the effects of micropollutants and their removal in natural and engineered water systems. Because of the tremendous success of the 2007 conference, the International Water Association (IWA) has partnered with the Groundwater Resources Association of California (GRA) to invite you to attend Micropol & Ecohazard 2009 to be held in June 2009 in San Francisco, California. This three-day international event is the first comprehensive conference to profile the latest developments in the detection, risk assessment, treatment and regulation of micropollutants in all environmental media by the world’s top experts. In addition to two concurrent oral sessions, poster/exhibitor opportunities and social activities, we are pleased to have several of the world's leading experts as plenary speakers. We are expecting over 400 attendees from all over the world.
Conference Topics
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Environmental Chemistry
- Advances in analytical methods
- Occurrence, fate, transport, process studies
- Modeling approaches
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Drinking Water Treatment
- Fate and removal during water treatment (and relevant water processes such as flocculation, ozonation, AOPs, GAC, PAC, nanofiltration, reverse osmosis and bank filtration)
- Formation of emerging disinfection byproducts during water treatment including those from the reaction of micropollutants with disinfectants
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Wastewater Treatment and Water Reuse
- New concepts and methods to reduce and/or remove micropollutants from water
- Fate, transport, process kinetics and modeling in wastewater treatment plants
- Treatment efficiencies, costs and resource/energy requirements
- Fate and removal in reuse and reclamation facilities, and during soil aquifer treatment, groundwater recharge and surface water replenishment efforts
- Stormwater overflow and sewer exfiltration
- Biosolids
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Fate, Transport and Removal in Soil and Groundwater
- Site investigation and remediation
- Modeling
- Case studies
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Toxicity and Risk Assessment
- Biological effects in the environment
- Mixture toxicity
- Ecological risk evaluation and assessment criteria for effluents
- Approaches to determine the toxicological relevance in drinking water
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Regulations and Management
- Wastewater, recycled water, groundwater, surface water, drinking water
- Urban water management
- River basin management
- Source control
Organizing Committee
R. Deeb, Malcolm Pirnie, Inc., USA (Co-Chair)
J. Drewes, Colorado School of Mines, USA
M. Focazio, United States Geological Survey, USA
M. Fürhacker, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
B. Jacobsen, Avedoere Wastewater Services, Denmark
S. Khan, University of New South Wales, Australia
M. Reinhard, Stanford University, USA
S. Richardson, United States Environmental Protection Agency, USA
H. Rohns, Stadtwerke Duesseldorf AG, Germany
D. Sedlak, University of California at Berkeley, USA (Co-Chair)
T. Ternes, Federal Institute of Hydrology, Germany
Technical Program Committee
M. Alaee, Environment Canada, Canada
A. Boxall, UK Environment, UK
R. Deeb, Malcolm Pirnie, Inc., USA
J. Drewes, Colorado School of Mines, USA
J. Field, Oregon State University, USA
M. Focazio, United States Geological Survey, USA
B. Jacobsen, Avedoere Wastewater Services, Denmark
M. Jekel, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
G. Jiang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
S. Khan, University of New South Wales, Australia
R. Kookana, CSIRO, Australia
C. Metcalfe, Trent University, Canada
W. Mitch, Yale University, USA
C. Schmidt, RheinEnergie Koeln, Germany
H. Seah, Public Utility Board, Singapore
D. Sedlak, University of California, Berkeley, USA
H. Siegrist, EAWAG, Switzerland
S. Snyder, Southern Nevada Water Authority, USA
M. Reinhard, Stanford University, USA
S. Richardson, United States Environmental Protection Agency, USA
T. Ternes, Federal Institute of Hydrology, Germany
U. von Gunten, EAWAG, Switzerland
Student Presentation Awards
Students are encouraged to attend Micropol and Ecohazard 2009. Student participation in the conference should be valuable to career development. The platform and poster presentations and the exhibits will provide useful information about the work of a wide range of organizations. To help make it possible for more students to attend, the student registration fee is less than half the standard rate.
As an added feature of the conference, a student presentation competition will be conducted. The primary student author of each winning presentation (oral and posters) will be recognized during the conference’s closing session. Significant financial awards will also be presented to the student winners.
• Eligibility. The presenter must be a full-time student on or before April 15, 2009. Abstracts may list faculty advisors as co-authors, but the conference presentation (oral or poster) must be made by the student.
• Criteria. Review criteria will be originality of the research, technical approach, data interpretation and presentation, and general relevance to the scope of the conference.
• Inquiries. Questions about the student presentation awards may be directed to Rula Deeb (rdeeb@pirnie.com).
Student Presentation Award Sponsors
Exhibitors
Calcon Systems Inc. | Laboratory Data Consultants Inc. | PRIMA Environmental, Inc.
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