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RSC Environmental Science Journal Forum at SETAC Asia-Pacific

We are delighted to announce a special RSC Journal Forum, ‘Environmental Solutions for Planetary Health’ taking place at SETAC Asia-Pacific in Tianjin, China, next month. This Forum will feature talks from Editorial and Advisory Board members of Environmental Science: Advances, Environmental Science: Atmospheres, Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts and Environmental Science: Nano part of our Environmental Science journal portfolio.

More details about the SETAC Asia-Pacific conference can be found here, including details on how to register.

Forum details

When: 23rd September, 12:30-17:00

Where: 19th Meeting Room, Society Hill Hotels & Conventions

12:30-13:30 Lunch & Learn

Join Grace Thoburn (Deputy Editor, RSC) for her talk ‘Publishing with the Environmental Science journals of the Royal Society of Chemistry’. This will be followed by an interactive ‘Meet the Editorial Board members’ session, where Editorial Board members of our Environmental Science journals welcome your questions about the journals and publishing.

13:30-17:00 RSC Forum: Environmental Solutions for Planetary Health

13:30-14:00 Zongwei Cai, Hong Kong Baptist University
Mass spectrometry-based investigation of environmental new pollutants and their health effects

14:00-14:30 Derek Muir, University of Guelph
Screening Global Industrial Chemical Inventories for Novel Substances of Environmental Concern

14:30-15:00 Iseult Lynch, University of Birmingham
Leveraging nanomaterials safely and sustainably for food and water security

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-16:00 Mingliang Fang, Fudan University
Toxicological Study of Human Exposure to Mixtures of Chemicals: Challenges and Approaches

16:00-16:30 Beate Escher, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Proxies of the Ecoexposome

16:30-17:00 Shuxiao Wang, Tsinghua University
Emission and Long-Time Aging of Full-Volatility Organics from Wildfires

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RSC Environmental Science Journal Symposium at NCEC this August

We are delighted to announce a special journal Symposia taking place at the NCEC in Tianjin, China, 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.

More details about the NCEC conference can be found here, including details on how to register

Symposium details

When: Saturday 17th August (all-day)

Where: Nankai University, Tianjin

Speakers and talk titles:

John Fortner Yale University, USA
TBC

Helen Hsu-Kim Duke University, USA
Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in the Peruvian Amazon: Mobilization, Bioaccumulation, and Exposure of Mercury

Zhang Lin South China University of Technology, China
TBC

Greg Lowry Carnegie Mellon University, USA
TBC

Iseult Lynch University of Birmingham, UK
TBC

Joel Pedersen UW-Madison, USA
Modulation of nanoparticle-membrane interactions by proteins

Weiguo Song Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Nano stirrer to enhance catalytic rate within micro droplets

Paul Tratnyek Oregon Health & Science University, USA
Redox Properties of Natural Organic Matter

Peter Vikesland Virginia Tech, USA
Nanosensor development for pH sensing in confined environments

Laura Carter University of Leeds, UK
Pharmaceutical Exposure in Agro-Ecosystems

Jingyun Fang Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Roles of halogen radicals for the abatement of micropollutants by the UV/chlorine process

Xian-Zheng Yuan Shandong University, China
Short-term nanoplastics exposure causes oxidative stress and membrane destruction in cyanobacteria

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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RSC Environmental Science Journal Symposium at ACS Fall this August

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!

Click here to return to the ESPI journal homepage

Click here to return to the ES:Nano journal homepage

Click here to return to the ESWRT journal homepage

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