Union (U)
Session Sub-categoryUnion
Session IDU-08
Title Advances in Legacy and Emerging Contaminant Biogeosciences
Short Title Legacy and Emerging Contaminants
Main Convener Name Michael S Bank
Affiliation Institute of Marine Research Bergen
Co-Convener 1 Name Sae Yun Kwon
Affiliation Pohang University of Science and Technology
Co-Convener 2 Name Zoyne Pedrero Zayas
Affiliation IPREM, CNRS, France
Session Language E
Scope Legacy and emerging contaminant pollution continues to be a significant environmental and public health concern. Processes of legacy and emerging contaminant fate and transport, and biotic uptake still have critical knowledge gaps. The goal of this session is to highlight recent scientific advances in legacy (heavy metals, POPS) and emerging contaminants (PFAS-PFOA compounds, microplastics) biogeosciences and impacts. Abstracts will be considered on a variety of topics including environmental cycling, exposure dynamics, toxicological impacts, bioaccumulation kinetics, and trophic transfer, etc. We encourage presentations to be submitted from a wide array of ecosystems including the atmosphere, and terrestrial, freshwater, and marine environments. Papers that consider the role of climate change, human health impacts, temporal trends, ecosystem recovery, source apportionment, food web dynamics, impacts on biodiversity, and biotic and abiotic controls on legacy and emerging contaminant cycling are strongly encouraged.
Session Format Orals and Posters session