Invited Speakers

Dr. Marlene Ågerstrand
Rearcher, Department of Environmental Science & Analytical Chemistry, Stockholm University, Sweden

Presentation title:
CRED – Criteria for Reporting and Evaluating Ecotoxicity Data
Prof. Youn-Joo An
Professor and Department Chair, Department of Environmental Science, Konkuk University, Korea

Presentation title:
Current Status of Water Quality Standards for the Protection of Human Health and Aquatic Ecosystems in Korea
Prof. Bryan Brooks
Professor and Director, Environmental Health Science Programme, Department of Environmental Science, Baylor University, USA

Presentation title: Perspectives on Alternative Endpoints in Aquatic Toxicology and Environmental Quality Criteria Derivation
Prof. Allen Burton
Professor and Director, Cooperative Institute for Limnology & Ecosystems Research; Director of the University of Michigan Water Centre, University of Michigan, USA

Presentation title:
Breaking from Tradition: Establishing More Realistic Sediment Quality Guidelines
Dr. Peter M. Chapman
Principal Environmental Scientist, Chapema Environmental Strategies, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Presentation title:
Environmental Quality Benchmarks – The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Dr. Kathryn Gallagher
Branch Chief, Ecological Risk Assessment Branch, United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) Office of Water, USA

Presentation title:
U.S. EPA’s Current Approach to Developing Aquatic Life Ambient Water Quality Criteria, Recent Successes, and Efforts to EPA’s Methodology for Deriving Criteria
Prof. John P. Giesy
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Environmental Toxicology, Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences and Toxicology Centre, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

Presentation title:
Water Quality Criteria in the 21st Century
Dr. James C.W. Lam
Assistant Professor, Department of Science and Environmental Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Presentation title:
Emerging Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in Marine Mammals from South China
Dr. Stanley Lau
Assistant Professor, Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

Presentation title:
A Peptide Identification-free Shotgun Proteomics Workflow to Differentiate Escherichia coli Isolates by Fecal Sources
Prof. Kenneth M. Y. Leung
Professor and Associate Dean, School of Biological Sciences, and The Swire Institute of Marine Science,The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Presentation title:
Understanding the Influence of Multiple Stressors on Chemical Effect Thresholds Is a Prerequisite of the Quest for the “Holy Grail”
Prof. Zheng-yan Li
Professot, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, China

Presentation title:
WQC Derivation and Ecological Risk Assessment for Bisphenol A Considering its Endocrine Disrupting Features
Prof. Zheng-tao Liu
Director, State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Ecological Effect and Risk Assessment of Chemicals, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China

Presentation title:
Study of Environmental Criteria of Heavy Metal Cr(VI), Pb and Cd in China
Dr. Graham Merrington
Director, WCA Environment Limited, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, UK

Presentation title:
Recent Developments in the Derivation and Implementation of Environmental Quality Standards for Chemicals in the UK
Dr. Adam Peters
Principal Scientist, WCA Environment Limited, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, UK

Presentation title:
Field-Based Approaches to Derive Environmental Quality Standards
Dr. Stuart Simpson
Senior Principal Research Scientist, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, CSIRO Division of Land and Water, Australia

Presentation title:
Incorporating Bioavailability within Environmental Quality Standards: Use of in situ Fluxes of Contaminants from Sediments
Dr. Jenny Stauber
Chief Research Scientist, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO CSIRO Division of Land and Water), Australia

Presentation title:
Development of Water Quality Guidelines for Metals in Tropical Ecosystems
Dr. Rick van Dam
Director & Senior Principal Research Scientist Environmental Research Institute of the Supervising Scientist, Department of the Environment, Australia

Presentation title:
How Specific is Site-Specific? Proposed Guidance for Deriving Location-Specific Water Quality Guideline Values

Dr Ju-ying Wang
Director, Marine Chemical Department, National Marine Environmental Monitoring Centre, State Oceanic Administration, Dalian, China

Presentation title:
The Scientific Foundation for Derivation of Sediment Quality Guidelines in Mainland China
Prof. Zi-jian Wang
Professor, Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Presentation title:
High-throughput Screening and Prioritization for Chemicals with Hazard or Risk Potencies
Dr. Michael Warne
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University, UK

Presentation title:
Recent Development of Water Quality Guidelines in Australia and New Zealand
Mr. Richard J. Wenning
Principal Consultant, Ramboll Environ, San Francisco, California, USA

Presentation title:
Critical Review of Mercury Sediment Quality Values
Prof. Feng-chang Wu
Director, State Key Laboratory in Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, and State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory for Lake Pollution Control, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China

Presentation title:
Application of QSAR in Deriving Water Quality Criteria for Metals
Prof. Rudolf S. S. Wu
Research Chair Professor, Department of Science and Environmental Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong, China

Presentation title:
Challenges in Derivation of Water Quality Guidelines for Dissolved Oxygen, the Alien
Prof. Zhen-guang Yan
Associate Professor, State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Ecological Effect and Risk Assessment of Chemicals, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China

Presentation title:
Screening of Priority Pollutants and Resident Test Organisms for Development of Water Quality Criteria in China
Prof. Xiao-wei Zhang
Professor, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, China

Presentation title:
Metagenomic Profiling of Zooplankton Community Reveal Environmental Threshold of Ammonia in Eutrophic Aquatic Ecosystem: A Case Study on Tai Lake, China
   
 
     
 

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