Wednesday, 9th August Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Australasia 2023
Registration
8:00AM - 8:15AM
Wednesday, 9th August
Foyer
Introduction and Updates
8:15AM - 8:30AM
Wednesday, 9th August
Grand Ballroom
Tony Roach Plenary - Beate Escher
8:30AM - 9:30AM
Wednesday, 9th August
Grand Ballroom
Keynote: Anthony Chariton
9:30AM - 10:15AM
Wednesday, 9th August
Grand Ballroom
Morning Tea
10:15AM - 10:45AM
Wednesday, 9th August
Foyer
Concurrent Session: Toxicity of Mixtures and Multiple Stressors
10:45AM - 12:30PM
Wednesday, 9th August
Raffles Room
- Multiple stressors unpredictably affect primary production and decomposition in model freshwater ecosystems - Grant C Hose
- Effect-based monitoring of two New Zealand catchments reveals significant impact from both urban and agricultural activities on water and sediment quality - Frederic D.L. Leusch
- Restoring mangroves in contaminated environments: a toxic trap for resident fauna? - Jasmine A Rasmussen
- Environmentally relevant concentrations of chemically complex shale gas flowback produced water leads to potential reduced fitness of water fleas (Daphnia carinata): multiple lines of evidence approach. - Daniel Willems
- Changes in metabolic profiles of amphipods Allorchestes compressa after acute exposures to copper, pyrene, and their mixtures - Dayanthi Nugegoda
- Bioaccessibility of trace elements associated with beached plastic debris in Aotearoa / New Zealand - Hayden Masterton
Concurrent Session: Wildlife Ecotoxicology
10:45AM - 12:30PM
Wednesday, 9th August
Kingston Room
- Birds and the bees - insights from biomonitoring for environmental pollutants - Mark Patrick Taylor
- Maternal transfer of pfas in wild bird species - Lorenzo Ricolfi
- Investigating the effects of per and polyfluorinated alkyl substances on dolphin health in South Australia - Rebecca Souter
- Bioenergetics of humpback whale fibroblast upon chemical exposure - MD HAFIZ ALL HOSEN
- Contaminant assessment of stranded and deceased cetaceans on the New South Wales coast of Australia with a focus on rare Ziphiidae species - Natalie L Palmer
- Gut passage and retention of plastics in juvenile green turtles is shape and size dependent - Cherie A Motti
- Recent advances in cell-based wildlife toxicology - Jason van de Merwe
Concurrent Session: Trace Metal Chemistry and Toxicology
10:45AM - 12:30PM
Wednesday, 9th August
Savoy Room
Sponsored by:
- Comparative assessment of accumulation and distribution of metal(loid)s in two saltmarsh halophytes, Austral seablite (Suaeda australis) and Spiny rush (Juncus acutus) - Md Rushna Alam
- Validating a New Method to Assess Iron Bioavailability in Fresh Waters: A Laboratory-based Ecotoxicological Assessment with Ceriodaphnia dubia. - Emiliano Balsamo Crespo
- Application of bioavailability models to predict the toxicity of zinc to the cladoceran Ceriodaphnia dubia in Australian natural waters - Anthony AE Evans
- Copper alters the biomolecular makeup and retinal tissue composition of purple spotted gudgeons - Aleicia Holland
- DOM toxicity amelioration is a scam! Well… at least for some Australian DOM sources when microalgae are exposed to zinc. - Gwilym AV Price
Lunch
12:30PM - 1:15PM
Wednesday, 9th August
Foyer
Concurrent Session: Emerging Contaminants, Micropollutants, Hydrocarbons, UV Filters and EDCs
1:15PM - 2:15PM
Wednesday, 9th August
Raffles Room
Sponsored by:
- Harnessing a natural language processing AI to identify chemicals of emerging concern - Alex Cliff
- Understanding the chemicals in recycled rubber products from end-of-life tyres - Mike Williams
- Emerging Contaminants of Concern (ECC) - testing downstream from Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTP) in Central and Northern Queensland - Angela Capper
- Micropollutants in recycled water from three recycled water plants in metropolitan Melbourne. - Kathryn Hassell
Concurrent Session: Monitoring Challenges in Temporary Waters
1:15PM - 2:15PM
Wednesday, 9th August
Kingston Room
- Water quality management at highly ephemeral mineralogical divides - Chris Williams
- Mineralised Impacts in Temporary Waters: Monitoring Stream Health with Macroinvertebrate Assessments - Sarah IM McDonald
- Application of multidisciplinary weight of evidence approach for regulatory framework of water/sediment quality management - Nadeeka Rathnayake
- Development of a predictive ecological risk assessment - Jill Woodworth
Concurrent Session: Ecotoxicology in Weather and Climate Extremes
1:15PM - 2:15PM
Wednesday, 9th August
Savoy Room
- Evaluating the Interactive Effects of Climate Change and Chemical, Physical and Biological Stressors on Nearshore Coral Reefs: A Case Study in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia - Jenny L Stauber
- Environmental Protection of sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island: Derivation and application of site-specific Environmental Guidelines for soils at remediated fuel spill sites. - Catherine K King
- Implementing effective environmental incident response monitoring programs, case studies and lessons learned. - Colin Johnson
- Monitoring of Subsurface Emissions and the Influence of Meteorological Factors on Landfill Gas Emissions: A Case Study of a South African Landfill - Prince PO Njoku
Mini Break
2:15PM - 2:20PM
Wednesday, 9th August
Concurrent Session: Emerging Contaminants, Micropollutants, Hydrocarbons, UV Filters and EDCs
2:20PM - 3:35PM
Wednesday, 9th August
Raffles Room
- Weathering indices for polypropylene, polyethylene, and polystyrene microplastic samples by Pyrolysis Gas Chromatography Mass Spectroscopy - Tania TA Toapanta
- Conducting polymers for photocatalytic degradation of aqueous organic contaminants - Tahereh Jasemizad
- Cassiopea sp. as a biomonitor to contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) - Madeline R McKenzie
- Transcriptome analysis of the hermatypic coral Acropora tenuis and its symbiotic dinoflagellates exposed to the UV absorber oxybenzone (BP-3) included in sunscreens - Ichiro Takeuchi
- Accumulation profiles of halogenated organic compounds in the living fossil fish of Indonesian coelacanth (Latimeria menadoensis) - Dede Falahudin
Concurrent Session: Wildlife Ecotoxicology
2:20PM - 3:35PM
Wednesday, 9th August
Kingston Room
- Drugs in a social setting: How temazepam exposure affects the group formation and behaviour of unfamiliar fish - Jack L Manera
- Linking individual responses to collective outcomes: does exposure to fluoxetine disrupt the collective behaviour of fish? - Marcus Michelangeli
- Where have all the growlers gone? - Toxicological effects of bifenthrin on urban frog populations - Vincent Pettigrove
- Biokinetics and interaction of mercury and selenium in metamorphosing tadpoles - Danielle Hill
- Can environmentally relevant concentrations of copper and zinc impact the viability and transgenerational effects of amphibian-killing fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis? - Milad Esmaeilbeigi
Concurrent Session: Ecotoxicology in Weather and Climate Extremes
2:20PM - 3:35PM
Wednesday, 9th August
Savoy Room
- Contaminants of emerging concern in flood impacted waters - Minna Saaristo
- Set fire to the rain – impacts of bushfires on waterways over time and potential implications. - Timothy M Remaili
- Assessing impacts of bushfire fighting chemicals on Australian frogs - Chantal Lanctot
- Plasticity of upper thermal limits of Australian Paratya spp. (Decapoda, Atyidae) and considerations of climate change adaptation - Brendan G Cox
Afternoon Tea
3:35PM - 4:00PM
Wednesday, 9th August
Foyer
SETAC-AU AGM
4:00PM - 6:00PM
Wednesday, 9th August
Grand Ballroom
Conference Dinner
6:30PM - 10:00PM
Wednesday, 9th August
The Great Gallery - Museum of Tropical Queensland