We are delighted to announce a special journal Symposia taking place at the ACS Fall in San Diego, USA, next month. This Symposia will feature talks from Editorial Board members of Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, Environmental Science: Nano, and Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, alongside some of our recent Emerging Investigators and winners of our inaugural Best Papers Initiative.
Symposium details
When: Sunday 25th August (all-day) and Monday 26th August (morning)
Where: Room 29A, San Diego Convention Center, USA
Speakers and talk titles:
| Sunday 25th August | |
| 8:20am | Amir Farnoud Ohio University, USA Interactions of nanomaterials with the cell plasma membrane: Can model membranes predict nanoparticle-induced membrane damage in cells? |
| 8:45am | Yu (Frank) Yang University of Nevada Reno, USA Quantitative analysis for the environmental fate of carbon nanotubes in soil-plant systems for their environmental implication and application |
| 9:10am | Leanne Gilbertson University of Pittsburgh, USA Designing sustainably at the nanoscale |
| 9:35am | Liwu Zhang Fudan University, China Promoted heterogeneous reaction of SO2 in atmosphere by CO2 and flue gas SO2 utilization |
| 10:15am | Ning Dai University at Buffalo, USA Sunlight photolysis of anthropogenic chemicals on simulated environmental surfaces |
| 10:40am | Ryan Sullivan Carnegie Mellon University, USA Using aerosol optical tweezers to learn and predict the chemical evolution of the composition, pH, and phase separated morphology of complex atmospheric particles |
| 11:05am | Lin Du Shandong University, China Exploring the surface properties of aqueous organic aerosol |
| 11:30am | Raoul-Marie Couture Universite Laval, Canada Disentangling the contributions of metabolism, light, and flocculation to removing dissolved organic carbon from vertically stratified aquatic environments |
| 1:35pm | Yujie Men University of Illinois, USA Organic contaminants of emerging concerns: Environmental fate and impacts |
| 2:00pm | Manish Kumar Pennsylvania State University, USA Biomimetic and bioinspired membranes: Challenges and opportunities |
| 2:25pm | John Fortner Yale University, USA Next generation graphene-based membranes for water treatment: Evolving from 2D to 3D materials |
| 2:50pm | Delphine Farmer Colorado State University, USA Chemistry of wildfire smoke: Measuring emissions and evolution of submicron particles |
| 3:30pm | Ed Kolodziej University of Washington (Tacoma/Seattle), USA Characterizing urban stormwater impacts on water quality |
| 3:55pm | Krista Wigginton University of Michigan, USA Nucleic acid reactivity with UV radiation and HOCl and the impact of virus capsids |
| 4:20pm | Ligy Philip IIT Madras, India Development of low-cost colorimetric sensor for the detection of aqueous nitrite ion |
| 4:45pm | Graham Gagnon Dalhousie University, Canada Achieving low levels of lead at the tap through a multi-faceted corrosion control program |
| Monday 26th August | |
| 8:25am | Stuart Khan University of New South Wales, Australia Biologically mediated chiral inversion of emerging contaminants: Role of wastewater treatment |
| 8:55am | Greg LeFevre University of Iowa, USA Putting the “bio” in bioretention: Microbial, plant, and fungal transformation processes in green stormwater infrastructure for sustained removal of emerging contaminants |
| 9:25am | Haizhou Liu University of California Riverside, USA Which photo-oxidant for potable reuse? Treatment efficiency and toxicity considerations |
| 10:10am | Joel Pedersen UW-Madison, USA Modulation of nanoparticle-membrane interactions by proteins |
| 10:40am | Sijin Liu RCEES, China Transformation-determined nanotoxicity |
| 11:10am | Korin Wheeler Santa Clara University, USA Toward predictive analysis of nanoparticle protein corona populations |
This Symposium aims to showcase the exciting research being conducted by thought-leaders and rising stars in the field of environmental science and engineering – we do hope that you will be able to join us!
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