Tuesday, 8th August
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Australasia 2023
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Speakers
Student Buddy Breakfast
7:00AM - 8:00AM
Tuesday, 8th August
Grand Ballroom
Registration
8:00AM - 8:30AM
Tuesday, 8th August
Foyer
Welcome to Country & Opening Ceremony
8:30AM - 9:30AM
Tuesday, 8th August
Grand Ballroom
Keynote: Manuwuri Tracey-Lee Forester
9:30AM - 10:15AM
Tuesday, 8th August
Grand Ballroom
Sponsored by:
Strengthening Eco-toxicology R&D through partnerships with First Nations Peoples.
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Manuwuri Traceylee Forester
Morning Tea & Exhibition
10:15AM - 10:45AM
Tuesday, 8th August
Foyer
Concurrent Session: Community-led Science: Co-designing Scientific Programs To Build Knowledge and Facilitate Behaviour Change
10:45AM - 12:30PM
Tuesday, 8th August
Raffles Room
Sponsored by:
Does involvement in Citizen Science improve water quality outcomes in the Great Barrier Reef Catchment Area?
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Sharon Hook
Targeting the GBR sediment hotspot through landholder monitoring and engagement alongside sediment tracing and modelling
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Stephen Lewis
Building knowledge and trust using local water quality data: A banana industry case study
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Alicia Buckle
‘Prove to me it’s my molecule of nitrogen’- some wins, losses, draws and ongoing challenges with nitrate-sensing networks in the Great Barrier Reef catchment area
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Aaron Davis
Using place-based, community-led water quality monitoring programs to improve water quality
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Alicia Buckle
Metabolomics unveiled: exploring PFAS impacts in honeybees through Citizen Science
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Phoebe Lewis
Concurrent Session: Assessing Environmental Benefits and Risks in Decomissioning
10:45AM - 12:30PM
Tuesday, 8th August
Kingston Room
Characterising contaminants in subsea gas pipeline scale to inform offshore decommissioning
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Tom Cresswell
Take it or leave it: a tiered assessment of the impacts of scale residue from offshore infrastructure on marine organisms
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Amy E MacIntosh
Challenges and opportunities in assigning toxicity thresholds for petroleum hydrocarbons
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Andrew P Negri
How sensitive are corals to petroleum hydrocarbons?
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Diane L Brinkman
Molecular responses of sponge larvae exposed to partially weathered condensate
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Heidi Luter
The sensitivity of a common tropical coral to petroleum oil increases with exposure duration and UV light
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Mikaela Nordborg
Concurrent Session: Human Health Issues Associated With Environmental Contaminants
10:45AM - 12:30PM
Tuesday, 8th August
Savoy Room
Sponsored by:
Plastics for dinner: Store-bought seafood, but not wild-caught, as a source of microplastics to human consumers
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Amanda Dawson
Assessing exposure of the Australian population to microplastics through bottled water consumption
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Subharthe Samandra
Impact on human health of microplastics in the New Zealand diet
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Jeane Nicolas
Estimating total dietary exposure to nano- and microplastics
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Coral Jeffries
Assessing the migration of unexpected added substances from breastmilk storage plastic containers
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Cheng Tang
Dressed to kill? Chemicals in clothing made from synthetic textile fibres
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Sally Gaw
Uptake of contaminants of emerging concern into edible crops
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Kara L Fry
Concurrent Session: Micro (Nano)Plastics: Identification, Abundance and Fate
10:45AM - 12:30PM
Tuesday, 8th August
Palmer Collective - Flinders Room
Sponsored by:
Developing a fast and reliable method to analyse Microplastics in environmental Sand and Sediment samples
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Julia E Jaeger
Rapid elutriation method for the isolation of microplastics from sandy sediments
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Marilia Ragagnin
Advancing Microplastics Characterization in the Environment via the Agilent 8700 Laser Direct Infrared (LDIR) Chemical Imaging System
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Wesam Alwan
Airborne emissions of microplastic fibres from domestic laundry dryers
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Stacey O'Brien
Characterization of airborne microplastics in Australian indoor air and estimation of human exposure levels
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Kushani Perera
Evaluation of micro and nano plastic background of commercial breast milk storage bags
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Laura Puente-De La Cruz
Plastic in your garden? A study investigating microplastics and bioplastics in commercial & home-made composts
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Simran Kaur
Lunch
12:30PM - 1:15PM
Tuesday, 8th August
Foyer
Concurrent Session: Indigenous Knowledge & Partnerships in Environmental Monitoring
1:15PM - 2:15PM
Tuesday, 8th August
Raffles Room
Developing a Kaupapa Māori science education programme focused on microplastics, plastic pollution and sustainability
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Grace Feltham
Managing the risk of emerging organic contaminants in New Zealand – developing a Te Tiriti-based strategy.
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Graham Sevicke-Jones
Blending traditional knowledge with scientific data using Environmental DNA
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Sarah Hale
Mamu Healthy Waters: Monitoring waterways using traditional knowledge and western science
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Alicia Buckle
Concurrent Session: Bioavailability and Toxicity of PFAS/PFOS
1:15PM - 2:15PM
Tuesday, 8th August
Kingston Room
Passive sampling and non-target analysis reveals new classes of PFAS in an AFFF-impacted groundwater in Australia
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Sara Ghorbani Gorji
Fate and Behavior of PFAS in Port Phillip Bay
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Navneet Mr Singh
Background concentrations and spatial distribution of PFAS in waterways arising from various catchment land-uses in the greater Melbourne area, Australia
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Tanya R Paige
Release of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from a waste management facility fire to an urban creek
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Brad Clarke
Concurrent Session: Human Health Issues Associated With Environmental Contaminants
1:15PM - 2:15PM
Tuesday, 8th August
Savoy Room
Sponsored by:
Identifying and prioritising human health risk pathways for PFAS in biosolids
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Kate Langdon
The link between air pollution and neurotoxicity using killifish, X-ray fluorescent microscopy and single cell transcriptomics
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Farzana Kastury
Assessment of oxidative potential & heavy metal concentration of fine particulate matter(PM
2.5
) and in lung cancer subjects
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Tulika Tripathi
Persistent Organochlorine Pesticide Exposure and Breast Cancer among Indian women: A possible Linkage
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MADHU ANAND
Concurrent Session: Micro (Nano)Plastics: Identification, Abundance and Fate
1:15PM - 2:15PM
Tuesday, 8th August
Palmer Collective - Flinders Room
Sponsored by:
Microplastics contaminate municipal biowastes destined for land application, including biosolids and compost, in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Helena Ruffell
Microplastic pollution in Australian biosolids: Abundance, characteristics and potential transport to agricultural lands
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Shima Ziajahromi
First evidence of microplastic pollution in the River Nile, Sudan: Nile Tilapia as a bio-indicator
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Dalia Saad
A spatial risk assessment for microplastics in NSW estuaries and an application in Sydney Harbour New South Wales
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Samantha K Lynch
Mini Break
2:15PM - 2:20PM
Tuesday, 8th August
Concurrent Session: Bioavailability and Toxicity of PFAS/PFOS
2:20PM - 3:35PM
Tuesday, 8th August
Raffles Room
Bioaccumulation, partitioning in tissues and offloading of PFAS to hatchlings of female wild-caught freshwater turtles
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Suzanne Vardy
The Biological Impact and Metabolic Burden of PFAS Contamination in Wild-Caught Freshwater Turtles: Omics-Based Ecosurveillance Reveals Atypical Scute Formation in Hatchlings Exposed to Elevated PFAS.
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David J Beale
Biomolecular and behavioural responses of the European honey bee (
Apis mellifera
) exposed to sublethal PFOS concentrations
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Susan C Wilson
Bioaccumulation and metabolic impact of environmental PFAS residue on wild-caught urban wetland tiger snakes (
Notechis scutatus
)
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Damian C. Lettoof
Concurrent Session: Bioavailability and Toxicity of PFAS/PFOS
2:20PM - 3:35PM
Tuesday, 8th August
Kingston Room
Sorption and transfer behaviour of perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) and polyfluoroalkyl phosphate diesters (diPAPs) in the soil-plant pathway for hazard assessment and evaluation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination
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Mark Buecking
Analysis of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Food and Garden Organics (FOGO)
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Hong T. M. (Rose) Nguyen
Bridging the Knowledge Gap on Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Consumer Household Products
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Pradeep Dewapriya
PFAS investigations downstream of Jabiru township and Ranger Uranium Mine
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Gisela D Lamche
Midges demonstrate greater sensitivity to PFOS compared to Daphnia
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Anu Kumar
Concurrent Session: Human Health Issues Associated With Environmental Contaminants and Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in The Environment
2:20PM - 3:35PM
Tuesday, 8th August
Savoy Room
The COVID conundrum: The environmental impacts of the pandemic across the Tropics
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Michelle (Shelley) Templeman
Persistence, bioaccumulation, and toxicity (PBT) comparative assessment with a human health twist
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Tarah G Hagen
Analysis of pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) in the environment
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Sasha Koreshkova
Toxicokinetics of oseltamivir ethylester and oseltamivir carboxylate in
Daphnia magna
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Yi-Chi Chen
The impacts of multigenerational fluoxetine exposure on behaviour, metabolic rate, and morphology in fish
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Kate N Fergusson
Concurrent Session: Micro (Nano)Plastics: Identification, Abundance and Fate
2:20PM - 3:35PM
Tuesday, 8th August
Palmer Collective - Flinders Room
Sponsored by:
Distribution and abundance of microplastics along the northern Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area
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Madi J McLatchie
Degradation of polyethylene and polypropylene in the environment
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Vaibhav Budhiraja
The fate of plastic additives in microplastic pollution
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James H Bridson
Impact of microplastics (unleached and leached of additives) on the growth of white mustard
(Sinapis alba)
and perennial ryegrass
(Lolium perenne)
.
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Helena Ruffell
A nexus of contaminants: understanding the potential risks and benefits of wastewater microplastics and their plastisphere communities
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Olga Pantos
Afternoon Tea
3:35PM - 4:00PM
Tuesday, 8th August
Foyer
Plenary - Sheriden Morris
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Tuesday, 8th August
Grand Ballroom
A New Approach to Stakeholder Engagement and Participation for Policy delivery: Great Barrier Reef Water Quality
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Sheriden Morris
Poster Session
5:00PM - 6:30PM
Tuesday, 8th August
Foyer
Quantification of plastic additives in beached plastic debris from Aotearoa / New Zealand
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James Bridson
Taking control of microplastics data: A comparison of control and blank data correction methods
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Amanda Dawson
Vertical distribution of microplastics in agricultural soil
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Veronika J Schacht
There's something in the air: A review of sources, prevalence and behaviour of microplastics in the atmosphere
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Stacey O'Brien
Mapping the behavioral impacts of pesticide exposure on zebrafish: a systematic evidence map and bibliometric analysis
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Kyle Morrison
Impacts of the psychoactive pollutant venlafaxine on ecologically important behaviours in eastern mosquitofish (
Gambusia holbrooki
)
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Raiko Rafeeq
Advantages of model-averaging of species sensitivity distributions used for regulating produced water discharges
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Monique T Binet
How much is too much? Improving our knowledge base of contaminants in Australian marine megafauna for investigating wildlife strandings
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Megan Gillmore
Effects of rice straw and sulfate application in paddy soil on arsenic behavior and formation of dimethylated arsenicals
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Sang-Gyu Yoon
A controlled study of stability and degradation of plastics in Aotearoa / New Zealand marine environments
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James Bridson
Biofilm formation on plasticised polystyrene and polyvinyl chloride microplastics in the marine environment
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Alexandra Gulizia
Road to contamination: Quantification and identification of tyre wear particles in balcony dust
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Simran Kaur
Leaching behavior of di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate from weathered polyvinyl chloride microplastics in groundwater
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Dong-Jun Baek
Evaluation of surface characteristics of microplastics through photoaging and each consequence of metal adsorption
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Haeun Kim
A low cost rapid assessment method for standardised multi-tiered broad scale microplastic monitoring programs
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Samantha K Lynch
Monitoring of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in different arctic fox tissues
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Mark Buecking
Tracking the impacts of pharmaceutical pollutants on animal movement and species interactions: A multi-lake experimental approach.
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Marcus Michelangeli
The direct total oxidizable precursor assay as a tool to identify PFAS hotspots in German rivers
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Mark Buecking
Novel online tools for the calculation and visualisation of pesticide mixture toxicity in waterways
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Hayley Kaminski
Ecotoxicological effects of ibuprofen and naproxen on Daphnia carinata
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Helena Souza
Investigating the role of seagrass in the trace metal biogeochemistry of estuarine sediment
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HEERA LEE
Identifying populations with elevated PFAS exposure using a modified human biomonitoring technique
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Sandra Nilsson
The pumped active suspended sediment (PASS) sampler
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Nicholas J C Doriean
Copper Aters the Proteome and Amino Acid Composition of Zebrafish (
Danio rerio)
Larvae
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Sarah L Green
Circumnavigation of Antarctica Reveals Microplastic Contamination in the Southern Ocean: A collaboration with Lisa Blair Sails the World.
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Keegan Vickers
Identification and quantification of antifouling paint particles in complex environmental matrices by Pyrolysis-Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry
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Gabriel E. De-la-Torre
Cobalt behaviour during estuarine mixing and sediment resuspension in an urban estuary
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Mark Donaldson
Using tissue residue-based effects concentrations in setting sediment guidelines for dioxin-like compounds
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Jackie Wright
Sustainable Chemicals Management Requires Informed Chemical Substitution
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Glen Walker
The dynamic of PFAS in soils and plants: Implications on remediation
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Yanju Liu
Effects to marine benthic organism exposed to tire particles and their dissolved components
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Seiichi Uno
In vivo
screening system using knockout zebrafish to determine thyroid endocrine disruptors
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Kyunghee Ji
Scenario-based integrated exposure assessment of parabens
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Inhye Lee
Student Function
6:30PM - 8:00PM
Tuesday, 8th August
The Rum Garden, Heritage Exchange
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