Schedule – 24 March

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Time (AEDT) Speaker Affiliation  Topic 
9.00 – 9:05 Ratin Mathur Industry Training Manager, CRC CARE Symposium host – Day 1
       
9.05 – 9:15 Laureate Professor Ravi Naidu CRC CARE and Global Centre for Environmental Remediation, University of Newcastle, Australia Symposium Chair – Opening remarks and welcome to delegates
9:15 – 10:15
(Keynote)		 Professor Ian Cousins Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University, Sweden Sources, transport and fate of various PFAS in the atmosphere
10.15 – 10:45 Laureate Professor Ravi Naidu CRC CARE and Global Centre for Environmental Remediation, University of Newcastle, Australia Innovative technologies for the remediation of PFAS-contaminated water and soil
10:45 – 11:00 Morning tea break
11.00 – 11:30 Dr Michael Dourson  Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment (TERA), USA Comparing human observational studies with clinical findings: the half-life of perfluorooctanoate (PFOA)
Dr Bernard Gadagbui
11.30 – 12.00 Ginny Yingling Minnesota Department of Health, USA PFAS in Minnesota, USA – 18 years of investigating the forever chemicals and what’s next
12:00 – 12:30 Lunch break
12.30 – 13.00 Dr Kate Hughes Ecology Data Bank Services, Australia Adequate but with room for improvement: experts’ communication about PFAS risks
 
13.00 – 13.30 Johanna Johnson Logan City Council, Australia Gasification of biosolids – does it remove PFAS?
 
13.30 – 13.50 Dr Anithadevi Kenday Sivaram Global Centre for Environmental Remediation, University of Newcastle, Australia Ecotoxicology of PFAS
 
13.50 – 14.10 Dr Anthony Umeh Global Centre for Environmental Remediation, University of Newcastle, Australia PFOS sorption in soils and the prediction of associated sorption coefficients by machine learning
 
14.10 – 14.30 Dr Timothy Coggan ADE Consulting Group Airborne PFAS – where is the risk and do we have the tools to measure and manage it?
 
14.30 – 14.50 Siyuan Liu Global Centre for Environmental Remediation, University of Newcastle, Australia PFAS in market vegetables – a survey on 53 vegetable samples from Sydney and Newcastle
 
14.50 – 15.10 Andrew Mitchell ADE Consulting Group 5 ASLP – is this the right tool for characterising PFAS risk in-situ and in waste materials?
15:10 – 15:25 Afternoon tea break
15:25 – 15:55 Professor Satyandra K Gupta University of Southern California, USA Robots for ensuring human safety during disinfection and clean-up operations
15:55 – 16:25 Professor Prosun Bhattacharya KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden COVID-19 as an emerging contaminant
16:25 – 17:00 All presenters Panel discussion / live Q&A session