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 |