Thursday, 10th August Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Australasia 2023
Registration
8:30AM - 8:45AM
Thursday, 10th August
Foyer
Introduction and Updates
8:45AM - 9:00AM
Thursday, 10th August
Grand Ballroom
Plenary: Michelle Bloor
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Thursday, 10th August
Grand Ballroom
Special Panel Discussion
10:00AM - 10:30AM
Thursday, 10th August
Grand Ballroom
Morning Tea
10:30AM - 11:00AM
Thursday, 10th August
Foyer
Concurrent Session: Science Priorities For Sustainable Chemicals Management and a Circular Economy
11:00AM - 12:30PM
Thursday, 10th August
Raffles Room
- The Australian Regulatory Cheminformatics Engine: addressing challenges in identifying, prioritising and substituting hazardous chemicals - Daniel Weber
- Environmental risk assessment as a link between scientific research and chemicals management in Australia - Caitlin McQueen
- Expanding the toolkit to predict environmental impacts from emerging chemicals - Janina Beyer
- Characterisation of Waste Hazards for Safe Reuse: A National Program of Activity - Naomi J Boxall
- Organic wastes applied to land – Australian approaches to assessing risks and establishing acceptable levels - Jackie Wright
- Closing the loop on nappies: an Aussie trial - Anu Kumar
Concurrent Session: Environmental Monitoring and Management in Major Industry Areas
11:00AM - 12:30PM
Thursday, 10th August
Kingston Room
Sponsored by:
- Learnings from undertaking nearly 30 years of monitoring in Cleveland Bay, Townsville. - Melinda Louden
- Plastics, tyre wear and tyre additive chemicals in surface water from 5 Queensland urban centres - Cassandra Rauert
- Understanding the microplastic pollution budget of Moreton Bay - Elvis Dartey Okoffo
- Probabilistic risk assessment of mine-derived copper in the Ok Tedi/Fly River, Papua New Guinea. - David Spadaro
- Deriving site-specific freshwater nickel, cobalt and chromium guidelines in the presence of naturally high background concentrations: A case study from New Caledonia - Lisa A Golding
- Biosecurity monitoring: Using AI technology and eDNA to detect invasive pests at the Port of Townsville. - Elaine Glen
Concurrent Session: Environmental Omics & eDNA
11:00AM - 12:30PM
Thursday, 10th August
Savoy Room
- Toxic traces: The use of DNA metabarcoding to investigate and monitor ciguatoxin-producing dinoflagellates along the coast of Queensland, Australia - Joseph C Perkins
- Using environmental DNA to help understand and manage environmental contaminants - Dr Luke M Noble
- eDNA can improve water and sediment quality management – A case study of the Ranger uranium mine - Andrew J Harford
- Metabolomic and lipidomic responses of Chironomus tepperi exposed to polyethylene microplastics in sediment: A two-generational investigation - Hsuan-Cheng Lu
- User-friendly field protocols for environmental DNA sampling - Cecilia Villacorta-Rath
- Community-led passive eDNA monitoring in GBR waterways - Sarah Stephenson
Concurrent Session: Best Management Practices for Pesticides in Australia
11:00AM - 12:30PM
Thursday, 10th August
Portside Room
- Proposed water quality guidelines and risk assessment for five pesticides frequently detected in Great Barrier Reef catchment waterways - Hannah C Mitchell
- Neonicotinoid insecticides and the Great Barrier Reef: An ecosystem unprotected? - Cath A Neelamraju
- Trend Analysis of Imidacloprid Concentrations in Waterways Discharging to the Great Barrier Reef Lagoon - Heinrich Rass
- Investigating the partitioning behaviour of neonicotinoids in Australian soils - Carla Alongi
- Environmental monitoring of neonicotinoids in Australian aquatic environments - Carly A Beggs
- Estimation of glyphosate and AMPA mass loads from twenty-two wastewater-treatment plants across Australia - Garth Campbell
Lunch
12:30PM - 1:15PM
Thursday, 10th August
Concurrent Session: Environmental Regulation - Challenges and Opportunities
1:15PM - 2:15PM
Thursday, 10th August
Raffles Room
- Protecting the invisible guardians: establishing guideline values for copper toxicity to marine microbial communities - Marie MT Thomas
- Anthropogenic dissolved inorganic nitrogen loads discharging from Great Barrier Reef catchments, are they ecologically relevant? - Ryan DR Turner
- Sensor technology in regulatory monitoring and response - Paula Sardina
Concurrent Session: Emerging Monitoring Technologies & Developments in Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology
1:15PM - 2:15PM
Thursday, 10th August
Kingston Room
- Saltwater intrusion management using 3D numerical modelling for the Pacific Island country of Vanuatu - Ashneel Sharan
- Hyperspectral analysis “Water Fingerprinting” improving the in-situ measurements of water quality that discharge to the Great Barrier Reef lagoon - Cheuk Yat Ng
- Can biofilms and zooplankton act as bioindicators of pollution in constructed stormwater wetlands? - Hannah Faraone
- Rapid Assessment of Hydrocarbon Contamination in Soils Using Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy and Binary Classification Algorithms - Deeksha Beniwal
Concurrent Session: Emerging Monitoring Technologies & Developments in Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology
1:15PM - 2:15PM
Thursday, 10th August
Savoy Room
- Saving Nemo: Replacing, reducing and refining the use of animals in direct toxicity assessment of wastewater - Kimberly A. Finlayson
- Adaption and application of cell based bioassays to whole water samples - Matt Johnson
- Remote monitoring of Enterococcus faecalis in wastewater and environmental waters - Alka AB Batra
- Use of passive sampling and high-resolution mass spectrometry for screening emerging pesticides of concern within the greater Melbourne area - Pulasthi Serasinghe
Concurrent Session: Best Management Practices for Pesticides in Australia
1:15PM - 2:15PM
Thursday, 10th August
Portside Room
Sponsored by:
- What’s the alternative? Can glyphosate be eliminated or reduced from urban vegetation management programs? - Erica Odell
- Assessing the impact of instream herbicide use on waterway health - Jackie Myers
- How do you manage a problem like bifenthrin? - Claudette Kellar
- A pesticide decision support tool to reduce the aquatic risk associated with sugar cane industry. - Michael StJ Warne
Mini Break
2:15PM - 2:20PM
Thursday, 10th August
Concurrent Session: Environmental Regulation - Challenges and Opportunities
2:20PM - 3:35PM
Thursday, 10th August
Raffles Room
- CREED – A framework to evaluate the reliability and relevance of measured chemical data in the environment - Andrew J Harford
- Has the Rio Doce “Time Bomb” Been Defused? Using a Weight-of-Evidence Approach to Determine Sediment Quality - Ross Smith
- A framework using multiple lines of evidence to assess aquatic ecosystem health in urban, rural and agricultural catchments - Sara Long
- Bioaccumulation of PFOS Southeast Queensland Freshwater Ecosystems – How well do the new PFOS ANZG Guideline Values protect consumers of aquatic foods against risk? - Suzanne Vardy
- Replacing whole animal testing with new approach methods (NAMs) in regulatory assessment of chemicals: A case study based on OECD TG 249 ‘Fish cell line acute toxicity – The RTgill-W1 cell line assay’ - Francisco Sanchez-Bayo
Concurrent Session: Environmental Monitoring and Management in Major Industry Areas
2:20PM - 3:35PM
Thursday, 10th August
Savoy Room
Sponsored by:
- From data point to decision-making: how a confluence of water data is being channeled into change - Kara-Mae Coulter-Atkins
- Managing the risk of emerging organic contaminants in New Zealand - a multi-disciplinary, cross sectorial approach - Louis A Tremblay
- Northern Water Supply a new and sustainable water supply for South Australia. - Antony Lockyer
- Managing dredging activities - Ross Jones
Concurrent Session: Emerging Monitoring Technologies & Developments in Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology
2:20PM - 3:35PM
Thursday, 10th August
Kingston Room
- Introducing the no significant effect concentration (nsec) - Rebecca Fisher
- Establishing riverine nutrient criteria using individual taxa thresholds - Adam D Canning
- Methods for monitoring billabong phytoplankton communities - Melanie A Trenfield
- Microplastics monitoring program in Australian marine waters: operationalization and data for environmental management. - Marina F. M. Santana
- Assessing the mass concentration of microplastics and nanoplastics in wastewater treatment plants by Pyrolysis Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry - Elvis Dartey Okoffo
Concurrent Session: Mercury in Australasia - From Sources to Sink
2:20PM - 3:35PM
Thursday, 10th August
Portside Room
- Science as a driver for implementation of the Minamata Convention on Mercury - Sarah Douglass
- Offshore oil and gas regulation – Mercury and the Minamata Convention - tarren J reitsema
- Gaps in the mercury pipeline – limitations predicting mercury biomagnification from local releases - Darren J Koppel
- Preliminary investigations into the solubility of metacinnabar (HgS) under Australian marine conditions. - Francesca Gissi
- Small-scale mercury mining on Seram Island Mollucus Province Indonesia - Amanda Reichelt-Brushett
Afternoon Tea
3:35PM - 4:00PM
Thursday, 10th August
Foyer
Closing Ceremony
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Thursday, 10th August
Grand Ballroom
Informal Events - TBA
5:00PM - 8:00PM
Thursday, 10th August