Serving Citizens and Scientists in the 21st Century

Week-at-a-Glance

Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday

View the Itinerary Planner for a complete list of all sessions and full abstracts HERE

Business and Committee Meetings HERE

For a list of the Special Symposia, click HERE

Saturday

2:00pm – 7:00pm: Registration Desk Open

2:00pm – 6:30pm: Horicon Marsh State Wildlife Area Tour

Sunday

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7:00am – 8:00pm: Registration Desk Open

9:00am – 12:00pm: Discovery World Aquarium Tour

9:30am – 2:00pm: Schlitz Audubon Nature Center

9:30am – 3:00pm: Historic Cedarburg: Cedar Creek Winery & Boutique Shopping

10:00am – 2:00pm: Milwaukee City Tour

6:30pm – 8:00pm: Sunday Opening Session

8:00pm – 11:00pm: Sunday Opening Reception

8:00pm – 11:00pm: Exhibit Hall Hours

Short Courses

Half-day Courses - Sunday, 8:00am - Noon

Half-day Courses - Sunday, 1:00pm - 5:00pm

Full-day Courses - Sunday, 8:00am - 5:00pm

Monday

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7:00am – 6:00pm: Registration Desk Open

7:00am – 8:00am: New Member Breakfast

9:30am – 6:30pm: Exhibit Hall Hours

9:30am – 1:30pm: The Domes & Miller Brewery Tour

8:00am – 11:40am: Platform Sessions

  1. Advances in Soil Toxicity Test Method Development
  2. Biomarkers - So What? Integration of Biomarkers and Ecologically-Relevant Endpoints
  3. Brominated Flame Retardants: Environmental Fate and Exposure- Part 1
  4. Challenges and New Analytical Methods for the Analysis of Emerging Contaminants
  5. Ecotoxicology- Part 1
  6. Fate and Effects of Metals: Dietary Perspective in the Aquatic Environment
  7. Green Chemistry: Designing Safer Chemicals
  8. Issues and Solutions: Integrating Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessments
  9. Life-cycle Assessment
  10. Plant uptake, phytotoxicity, and phytotransformation of emerging contaminants
  11. Urban Contaminants: Sources, Composition, Fate from a Multimedia Perspective- Part 1
  12. Interactive Platform - Advances in Bioaccumulation Assessment

11:50am - 12:55pm: Student Noontime Seminar

1:00pm - 1:40pm: Theme Speaker Dr. David Sedlak

1:50pm – 5:30pm: Platform Sessions

  1. Atrazine in the environment
  2. Bioaccumulation approaches for persistent organic pollutants
  3. Bioavailability of Sediment-Associated Contaminants
  4. Brominated Flame Retardants: Environmental Fate and Exposure- Part 2
  5. Ecotoxicology- Part 2
  6. Emerging Issues and Approaches in Avian Toxicology
  7. Fate and Effects of Metals: Chemical Perspective
  8. LCA and Decision-Making: Making Life Cycle Assessment More Useful in the Real World
  9. Science, Heal Thyself: What Happens when Science Examines Science
  10. Sustainability
  11. Urban Contaminants: Sources, Composition, Fate from a Multimedia Perspective- Part 2
  12. Interactive Platform - A Synopsis of the Pellston Workshop on Tissue Residue Toxicity

8:00am - 7:00pm: Posters

5:30pm- 6:30pm: Poster Social (Want Free Drinks?)

6:30pm - 9:00pm: Student Mentor Dinner (Open to Students and Mentors Only)

Tuesday

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7:00am – 6:00pm: Registration Desk Open

9:30am – 6:30pm: Exhibit Hall Hours

9:30am – 12:30pm: SETAC NA Fun Run

8:00am – 11:40am: Platform Sessions

  1. Diversity in POPs
  2. Environmental Chemistry
  3. Environmental Risk Assessment of Pharmaceuticals
  4. Future issues in environmental toxicology and chemistry
  5. Linking molecular/biochemical responses to ecologically-relevant effects: Connecting the dots.
  6. Metals in the Environment: Aquatic Biological Perspectives
  7. Perchlorate Today- What We Have Learned in a Decade of Research
  8. Remediation/Restoration- Part 1
  9. Soil Ecotoxicology and Risk Assessment
  10. Strategies for sustainable management of sediments
  11. Interactive Platform - Urban Environmental and Health: From Lab Bench to Classroom to Community- Part 1

11:40am – 1:30pm: Women in SETAC Luncheon Dr. Nancy E. Mathews

1:00pm – 1:40pm: Theme Speaker Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon

1:50pm – 5:30pm: Platform Sessions

  1. Assessment and Remediation of Chemical Contamination in Tidal Estuary Sediments
  2. Common Effects Endpoints For Persistent Toxic Substances in Human and Ecological Epidemiology
  3. Ecological Fate and Effects of Explosives and Related Compounds
  4. Endocrine Disruptors Crossing the Ag/Urban Interface: Utilization of Wastewater and Sludges in Agriculture
  5. Environmental nanoscience
  6. Fate and Effects of Metals: Aquatic Biological Perspective
  7. Modern Biological Approaches to Environmental Toxicology
  8. Monitoring, Trends and Environmental Chemistry of Perfluorinated Compounds
  9. Remediation/Restoration- Part 2
  10. Securing the Homeland against Chemical and Biological Threats
  11. Interactive Platform - Urban Environmental and Health: From Lab Bench to Classroom to Community- Part 2
  12. Debate Session - Making Decisions in the Face of Uncertainty

8:00am - 7:00pm: Posters

5:30pm - 6:30pm: Poster Social (Want Free Drinks?)

7:00pm – 11:00pm: SETAC Social: An Evening with Harley-Davidson

Wednesday

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7:00am – 6:00pm: Registration Desk Open

9:30am – 6:30pm: Exhibit Hall Hours

9:00am – 12:00pm: Discovery World Aquarium Tour

8:00am – 11:40am: Platform Sessions

  1. A systems biology approach for integration of molecular endpoints to understand stressor impacts and biomarker discovery
  2. Contaminated Sediments and Soils
  3. Environmental Assessment
  4. Environmental chemistry and toxicology of chiral compounds
  5. Environmental fate and effects of manufactured nanomaterials Part 1
  6. Fate and Effects of Metals: Regulatory and Risk Assessment Perspective
  7. Human Exposure to Emerging Environmental Contaminants
  8. Mercury Fate and Biogeochemistry- Part 1
  9. Sampling and Analytical Determinations in Environmental Matrices
  10. Sources, Fate and Transport of Perfluorinated Compounds
  11. Wildlife Ecotoxicology
  12. Interactive Platform - Development and Use of Wildlife TRVs in ERA

11:50am - 12:55pm: Student Noontime Seminar

1:00pm – 1:40pm: Theme Speaker Dr. Nora Savage

1:50pm – 5:30pm: Platform Sessions

  1. Biomarkers and Contaminant Exposure in Biota
  2. Ecotoxicogenomics: Standardization and Utility for Future Ecological Risk Assessments
  3. Environmental fate and effects of manufactured nanomaterials Part 2
  4. Evaluation of the Synthetic Pyrethroids in the Urban and Agricultural Environment
  5. Fate and Effects of Metals:Terrestrial/Wetland Perspective
  6. Ground Water-Surface Water Interactions: Emerging Risk Issues
  7. Mercury Fate and Biogeochemistry- Part 2
  8. North American Experiences in Contaminated Sediment Assessment and Management: Canadian and US Perspectives
  9. Remediation and Modeling of Perfluorinated Compounds
  10. Risk Assessment and Risk Management for Reptiles and Amphibians
  11. Sources and Fate of EDCs and Pharmaceuticals in the Environment
  12. LCA Now and in the Future: Facilitated Discussion on the Gaps between Methodology and Practice (Is LCA a Dying Art?)

8:00am - 7:00pm: Posters

5:30pm - 6:30pm: Poster Social (Want Free Drinks?)

Thursday

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7:00am – 6:00pm: Registration Desk Open

10:00am – 2:00pm: Great Churches of Milwaukee

8:00am – 11:40am: Platform Sessions

  1. A retrospective view of avian biomonitoring and contaminant effects in the Great Lakes: Lessons learned and implications for Great Lakes Management- Part 1
  2. Aircraft and pavement deicers and anti-icers
  3. Biological Contamination of Great Lakes and Marine Coastal Beaches: Sources, Fate, Monitoring, and Predictive Modeling
  4. CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF PHARMACEUTICALS AND PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS (PPCP) IN RIVER WATER, SEDIMENTS AND WASTE WATER
  5. Fate and Ecotoxicity of 'Materials of Importance to the Military' in Soil Environments, and Innovative Methods to Carry Out such Investigations.
  6. National and International Policy Perspectives and Regulatory Mechanisms for Emerging Pollutants
  7. Passive Sampling Techniques and Case Studies in Saturated Sediments and Soils
  8. Post-remediation Evaluations of Effectiveness
  9. REACH: Implications and Importance to North America
  10. Selenium in Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems
  11. Toxicant Effects on Fishes
  12. Urban Pesticide Use Effects on Ecosystems

1:00pm – 1:40pm: Theme Speaker Dr. Deborah Swackhamer

1:50pm – 5:30pm: Platform Sessions

  1. A retrospective view of avian biomonitoring and contaminant effects in the Great Lakes: Lessons learned and implications for Great Lakes Management- Part 2
  2. Advances in the Analysis of Emerging Environmental Contaminants
  3. Contaminated Harbor and River Sediment
  4. Cooperative Natural Resource Damage Assessments: Cooperation vs. Collaboration. How do we improve the process?
  5. Ecological and Human Health Risk Assessment at the Hanford Site: Multiple-stakeholder Contributions to the Process.
  6. Emerging Contaminants and the Great Lakes: Assessment of Risk to Human Health and the Environment
  7. Environmental Policy and Management
  8. Human Health Issues and Environmental Chemistry
  9. Immunotoxicology
  10. Mercury Pollution: Towards a Holistic Appraisal of Sources, Environmental Cycling, Biotic Exposure, Consequences, and Management
  11. Urban Watersheds: Issues of scale, complexity and resource assessment and management
  12. Debate Session - The importance of professional environmental scientists communicating environmental issues and concerns to the general public. Do we have an ethical and moral responsibility to do so?

8:00am - 7:00pm: Posters

5:30pm - 6:30pm: Poster Social (Want Free Drinks?)

 

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