Analytical chemistry for emerging contaminants in the environment
This symposium will provide an opportunity for scientists and engineers to share recent advances in the analysis of “Emerging Contaminants” and new knowledge regarding their environmental fate. Emerging Contaminants include hormones, pharmaceuticals, personal care products, engineered nanomaterials, new pesticides, flame retardants, and biotoxins, that are of increasing interest due to their relatively unknown environmental impacts and long-term ecological effects.
In addition to novel analytical techniques for environmental monitoring of Emerging Contaminants, we will also include presentations on:
- New research findings on the fate and behavior of these environmental contaminants from laboratory and field studies
- Identification of the chemical and biological transformation products in plants, soil, water, and water treatment systems
- Sorption, leaching, run-off, and biodegradation studies to elucidate the fate and transport of these chemicals in the natural environment
- Ecotoxicology and risk assessment of emerging contaminants
Session organizer
Prof. Diana S. Aga is associate professor in the chemistry department at the University at Buffalo. Dr. Aga specializes in the fate and transport of pollutants, environmental sampling and analysis, waste water treatment of micropollutants, capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE), liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS), enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS), molecularly imprinted sorbents in solid-phase extraction.
