Abstracts

Platform session 1:  Per- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances - PFASs

• Ian Overton - International State-of-Knowledge on Per- and Poly-FluoroAlkyl Substances (PFASs) in the Water Industry

• Danielle Oliver - The role of soil properties in the sorption behavior of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs)

• Emma Knight - The Sorption of PFOS and PFHxS in Australian soils

• Matthew Askeland - Investigating sorption behaviour of Perfluoroalkyl substances to a selection of biochars

• Drew Szabo - Distribution coefficient (Kd) of wastewater derived precursor per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)

• Timothy Coggan - Investigation of the levels of PFAS in aqueous matrices from Nineteen Australian wastewater treatment plants.

• Hue Nguyen - Poly-/perfluoroalkyl substances in wastewater treatment plants across Australia: Distribution, Mass load and Formation.

Platform session 2:  Endocrine disruptors and Other emerging contaminants

• Annegaaike Leopold - Calidris environment bv, The Netherlands Research to policy on emerging contaminants - the EU perspective

• Eric Gismondi - Molt-inhibiting hormone and ecdysteroid receptor in the amphipod Gammarus pulex: identification and consequences of endocrine disruptor exposures

• Kevin Thomas - Exploring the Potential of a Global Emerging Contaminant Early Warning Network through the Use of Retrospective Suspect Screening with High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry

• Grant Northcott - Identification of priority emerging organic contaminants in treated wastewater

• Jake O’Brien - What’s in our wastewater: a novel approach for identifying emerging contaminants in our wastewater

• Anne Colville - Ionic liquids: Solvents of the future

Platform session 3: Pharmaceuticals and antimicrobial resistance

• Edward Topp - Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Environmental Dimension of Antimicrobial Resistance Development

• Guang-Guo Ying - Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance Genes in the Livestock Environment

• Erica Donner - Microbiome and mobile antibiotic resistome in Australian wastewater, recycled water, and biosolids.

• Phil Choi - Assessment of population histamine burden by analysing a histamine metabolite in wastewater

• Lisa Hamilton - Pharmaceutical and personal care products as indicators of waterway quality improvements from two sewering projects in the Southern Highlands NSW

Platform session 4: Microplastics and Other emerging contaminants

• Shima Ziajahromi - Wastewater-based microplastics: Presence in wastewater effluent and effects on freshwater organisms

• Sally Gaw - Double trouble? The effects of microplastics and triclosan individually and as a binary mixture on the green-lipped mussel Perna canaliculus.

• Mike Williams - Release of geogenic contaminants during coal seam gas extraction: laboratory studies

• Cobus Gerber - Substances of abuse in treated wastewater and biosolids

• Luis Restrepo - Removal of illicit drugs and psychopharmaceuticals in wastewater treatment

Platform session 5 - Aquatic and terrestrial effects     

• Vincent Pettigrove - Use of passive samplers to monitor polar organic micropollutants in waters treated for potable water supplies

• Jon Dominic Habito - The potential of sediment-bound bifenthrin to induce stress responses in Flathead gudgeon (Philypnodon grandiceps)

• Brad Angel - The mechanism of toxicity of nanoparticulate CeO2 to unicellular algae

• Ichiro Takeuchi - Effects of ambient levels of Irgarol 1051 in tropical coastal seawater on the hard coral Acropora tenuis

• Francisco Sanchez-Bayo - Ecosystem impacts of water contamination by neonicotinoids and fipronil insecticides

Platform session 6​: Risk assessment, management, regulations and policies  

• Virginia (Jinny) Baker - What’s in our water, and what can we do about it?  Science at the interface of policy, community and sustainable change.

• Glen Walker - Priority Environmental Contaminants in Australia Identified by Use of the IMAP Framework

• Ben Tscharke - What’s in our wastewater: what can wastewater influent tell us about human use of and exposure to chemicals?

• Fred Leusch - 3Ring DTA: Application of in vitro bioassays to assess toxicity of wastewater

• Louis Tremblay - A research project to manage emerging organic contaminants in New Zealand

Platform session 7: Per- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances - PFASs

• Andrew Mitchell - The Outside-In Approach to PFAS Investigations

• Charles Grimison - Immobilisation of PFAS impacted soils: comparison of amendments and performance metrics

• Melanie Kah - Interactions between PFASs and sorbent materials used for water remediation

• Kathryn Hassell - Bioaccumulation of PFOA and PFOS, but not the PFOA replacement, GenX (HPFO-DA) following 21-d dietary exposure in a small estuarine fish, the blue spot goby (Pseudogobius sp.)

• Karl Bowles - Are bioaccumulation factors useful for regulation of PFOS in aquatic ecosystems?

• Kirsten Broadgate - Application of new methodologies for deriving aquatic ecosystem guidelines in Australia and New Zealand: PFOS in freshwater

Platform session 8: treatment processes and technologies 

• Risha Jasmine Singh - Fruit and vegetable peel-sodium alginate bead biosorption with respect to the uptake of arsenic and heavy metals: A study of multi-ion biosorption parameters

• Yolanta Gruchlik - Chemical removal in selected waste stabilisation ponds in Western Australia: Implications for water reuse

• Rebecca Aijing Li - Occurrence of N-nitrosamines affected by nitrification and rechloramination in chloraminated drinking water distribution systems

• Sebastien Allard - Impact of different pre-treatment processes on NOM’s electrochemical properties and subsequent DBPs formation from chlorination
  

Posters

• Sarit Kaserzon - In-situ calibration of novel passive sampling devices for the monitoring of PFAS in contaminated ground water

• Sandra Nilsson - Effects of different conventional cooking methods on the concentration of PFASs in seafood

• Carolyn Sonter - Analysis of poly and perfluorinated alkyl substances in honey and bees, Williamtown, NSW, Australia

• Ki Yong Kim - Spatial and seasonal variability and removal efficiency of perfluoroalkyl compounds in drinking water treatment plant, with distribution changing trend from short-chain PFASs

• Lily Weir - ‘Soiled’ samples: Investigation of PFAS leaching parameters at a coastally located fire-fighting training ground

• Katie Richardson - PFAS uptake into fish, and assessment of human consumption risk

• David Beale - Characterization of environmental pollution and ecosystem health of a subtropical marine port using metabolomics-based approaches

• Lisa Golding - Toxicity of dissolved barium to freshwater biota as a contaminant in produced waters

• Maita Subba - Establishing standard acute test of metals and pesticides for Potamopyrgus antipodarum

• Ana Miranda - Alteration in the thyroid hormones ratio, vitellogenin, and oxidative stress in fish by PFOA

• Haotian Wang - Dissolved organic matter affects both bioconcentration kinetics and steady-state concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)

• Eric Gismondi - Expression variations of the retinoid X and the estrogen receptors in Brachionus calyciflorus exposed to anti-androgens

• Sally Gaw - Out of sight? Emerging organic contaminant concentrations in Canterbury (NZ) shallow groundwater

• Sally Gaw - Microplastics in New Zealand green lipped mussels Perna canaliculus

• Maolida Nihemaiti - Degradation of fluoroquinolone antibiotics by peroxymonosulfate without generation of radicals

• Bingxu Nan - The occurrences and effects of microplastics on Australian freshwater shrimp Paratya australiensis

• Teresa Calipari - Microplastics adversely affect growth of the freshwater alga Chlorella sp. 12

• Warish Ahmed - Pathogenic bacteria, sewage-associated marker genes and antibiotic resistance genes in storm drain outfalls

• Warish Ahmed - Quantitative microbial risk assessment of sewage-associated marker genes in recreational water contaminated with fresh unrelated sewage

• Asa Jamting - Characterisation of nanoparticles in natural and waste waters

• Divina Angela Navarro - What happens to graphene nanomaterials in soil?

• Melanie Kah - A meta-analysis to evaluate the performances of nano-agrochemicals against their conventional analogues.

• Richard Bade - Screening and identification of illicit drugs and pharmaceuticals in influent and effluent wastewater using LC-HRMS

• Haysem Alhassen - Effects of selected pharmaceutical stressors on freshwater ecosystem processes

• Nao Ishikawa - Evaluation of tylosin transfer from soil to water environment

• Olha Furman - Ecological risk assessment of industrial nanomaterials: A case study in Australia

• Selvendiran Periyasamy - Electrochemical advanced oxidation processes for the degradation of caffeine from synthetic wastewater by using BDD anode

• Supriya Lath - In situ remediation of As, Cd, PFOA and PFOS from soil using graphene-based materials

• Khadeeja Rehman - Large-scale remediation of oil-contaminated water using floating treatment wetlands

• Wei Hu - Mechanistic investigation of bromamines Decomposition in the presence of Cu(II)

• Rachel Mackie - Trends in nicotine consumption between 2010 and 2017 in an Australian city using the wastewater-based epidemiology approach.

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