Conference topics and meeting outline
Conference topics:
- Air pollution: sources and health impact
- Bioavailability and effects of metals in terrestrial and aquatic environments
- Ecological and human health risk assessments
- Effects of climate change on the environment
- Emerging contaminants: fate and effects of pharmaceutical and personal care products, nanoparticles, and microplastics, PFAS
- Environmental health/public health: implications of compromised ecosystems
- Environmental impact assessment
- Environmental impact of oil/gas extraction and refining
- Environmental management and policy
- Environmental modeling
- Environmental monitoring on water, soil, air, and biota
- Environmental remediation and restoration
- Environmental sustainability: approaches and actions
- Environmental technology
- Fate and effects of pesticides and POPs
- Harmful Algal Bloom: causes, effects, and prevention
- Impacts of urban development on the environment
- Impacts of industrialization on the environment
- Life cycle assessment
- Local environmental issues in Asian countries: dioxins in Vietnam; arsenic contamination in groundwater in Asia; Water resources in the Mekong Delta and Red River watersheds: quality, quantity, and management; macro- and microplastic pollution in Asia
Publication:
The conference plans to organize special issues for selected research presented at the conference to be published in Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management Journal and the Journal of Integrated Global STEM.
Short courses: (Half day)
- Environmental Risk Assessment Considerations for Biologically Active Chemicals: Focusing on Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) and Endocrine Disruptors (Prof. Bryan Brooks, Baylor University, USA)
- Human Health Risk Assessment (Prof. Mark Robson, Rutgers University, USA)
- Analysis of Microplastics in Environmental Samples (Dr. Andrew Barrick, Auburn University, USA).
Program outlines:
| Date | Happening |
| March 8 (afternoon) | Short courses |
| March 9 | Opening/Platform presentation |
| March 10 | Conference: Platform presentations and posters, conference gala dinner |
| March 11 | Conference: Platform presentations and posters |
| March 12 | Conference: Platform presentations/conclusion |
