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Presentation proposal deadline: June 30, 2024
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) invites?you to participate as a presenter at the 2024 Great Lakes PFAS Summit that takes place?
December 3-5, as a virtual event.?
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) continue to present some of the biggest challenges in chemical contamination across the world. The Great Lakes PFAS Summit will bring together environmental program managers, policy experts, researchers, and contractors from around the Great Lakes region, to share new methods of addressing this contamination and present innovative technical solutions developed to address these ?forever? chemicals.? ?
Participants may include local, state, and federal government officials; environmental consultants and vendors; academic researchers and students; industry managing PFAS contamination; and community organizations.
EGLE will be selecting roughly 24 proposals among the submissions and will notify presenters in August 2024. Additionally, proposals will also be considered for EGLE?s Remediation & Risk Management webinar series. All primary presenters will receive a complimentary Summit registration.
Conference sessions will include the topic areas shown below. Please review the topics to consider the category where your presentation would best fit. Authors may suggest additional topics that are not on the list, but they must fit a general topic area related to PFAS.?
Topic Areas
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Human and Ecological Impacts:?Example topics: PFAS in fish and wildlife; PFAS in agriculture and plant uptake; impact on tribal communities; outreach to impacted communities; PFAS in food and consumer products
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Regulation:?Example topics: PFAS policy and legislation; restrictions and bans; PFAS alternatives and assessment of toxicology of alternatives; biosolids management
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Fate and Transport:?Example topics: fate and transport in various media; site investigation and rapid characterization; forensics; precursor transformation; vapor intrusion
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Treatment:?Example topics: new, innovative treatment technologies; destruction technologies; pilot/field studies; AFFF clean-out technologies
Submission deadline is 11:59 p.m., June 30, 2024.
Questions?
Abstract submission topics and content:?
Nicole Sanabria:?[email protected]
Abstract submission process:
Alana Berthold:?[email protected]
Joel Roseberry:?[email protected]
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