Tuesday, 31st August Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Australasia 2021

SETAC Opening Ceremony - Kathryn Hassell & Vincent Pettigrove - Conference Co-Chairs:

Acknowledgement of Country

SETAC Council Awards

• From POPs to emerging contaminants of concern - Spanners in a circular economy - Jochen Mueller

• Australian gout prevalence estimates through wastewater - Fahad Ahmed
• National wastewater analysis of metformin in Australia - Qiuda Zheng
• A wastewater-based evaluation of the effectiveness of codeine control measures in Australia - Ben J Tscharke
• Pharmaceuticals in biota: the impact of wastewater treatment plant effluents on fish in Australia   - Minna Saaristo

• Water quality trends in the upper Murray and Mitta Mitta Rivers one year after the 2019/20 Black Summer bushfires - Klaus D Joehnk
• The effects of bushfire disturbances on estuaries - Thayanne L Barros
• Water Quality Impacts of the 2019/2020 Green Wattle Creek fire in the Lake Burragorang Catchment - Ann-Marie Rohlfs
• Response and recovery of freshwater biota exposed to multistressors in post- bushfire run off: A preliminary case study - Anu Kumar

• Urban stormwater runoff: Metal forms and dynamics in a polluted urban creek system in Melbourne, Australia - Sarah McDonald
• The use of bioassays to validate the Diffusive Gradients in Thin films (DGT) technique for measuring bioavailability of Uranium - Claudia Tanneberger
• In situ DGT sensing of bioavailable metal fluxes to improve toxicity predictions for sediments. - Stuart Simpson

• Characterizing chemical migrants from major baby food pouch brands available in the Australian market - Cheng Tang
• Could wastewater analysis be a useful tool for determining community usage of performance- and image-enhancing drugs (PIEDs)? - Katja Shimko
• The characterisation of antimicrobial resistance in Australian wastewater - Leah Clarke
• Release of Plastics to Australian Land from Biosolids End-Use - Elvis Dartey Okoffo

• Ingestion of plastic by Short-tailed Shearwaters has not decreased in 8 years. - Jacinta Colvin
• Lead Exposure in Scavenging Wildlife from Mainland Australia - Jordan O Hampton
• Fate and sublethal effects of metals during amphibian metamorphosis: A systematic review - Danielle Hill

• Projecting future changes in element concentrations of approximately 100 untreated discharges from legacy mines in Japan by a hierarchical log-linear model - Yuichi Iwasaki
• Resilience of Avicennia marina (grey mangrove) in highly contaminated lead-zinc smelter impacted sediments at Port Pirie, Upper Spencer Gulf, South Australia - Farzana H Kastury
• New technologies to future-proof the long-term ecological monitoring of the rehabilitated Ranger Uranium Mine - Andrew Harford
• Antagonistic interaction between magnesium and manganese in contaminant mixtures from a mine site - Melanie A Trenfield

• A wastewater-based assessment of the impact of a minimum unit price on population alcohol consumption in the Northern Territory - Jake W O'Brien
• Effects driven analysis of cheimcal contaminants from a rural and urban catchment - Grant Northcott
• Bio-molecular modelling of environmental contaminants and their effects on protein function - Michael Kuiper
• Communicating risk associated with emerging contaminants: 3 ways to achieve effective engagement - Danielle Torresan
• The pathway to 2021 Aotearoa-New Zealand Strategy for emerging contaminants Patua te taniwha kei tamariki tonu - Graham Sevicke-Jones
• Indigenous cultural and spiritual values and water quality management. - Bradley Moggridge

• Comparison of trace element body burdens in three delphinid species in Victoria, Australia - Chantel S Foord
• Upside-down jellyfish as a model organism for biomonitoring environmental variability - Madeline R McKenzie
• Development of a risk assessment framework for deep sea tailings placement (DSTP) - Jenny Stauber
• Deriving the first species-specific sensitivity constants for oil toxicity- and risk modelling for tropical coral larvae - Mikaela Nordborg
• Trace element concentrations in liver and muscle tissue of white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) from the east coast of Australia - Julia L Smith
• Chemical contaminants in the liver tissue of New Zealand Fur Seals (Arctocephalus forsteri) - Anil Gautam

• Experimental design and statistical analysis in aquatic live animal radiotracing studies - Sarah McDonald
• A shiny future for Burrlioz - David Fox
• Bioavailability of petroleum scale-associated contaminants to juvenile tiger prawns   - Amy MacIntosh
• Cadmium bioaccumulation and biodistribution during amphibian development and metamorphosis - Chantal Lanctot
• Biomonitoring for dissolved metals; don’t use gobies! - Tom Cresswell
• bayesnec: An R package for C-R modelling and estimation of No-Effect-Concentrations - Rebecca Fisher

• Contribution of nuclear applications to assess the impact of current and emerging environmental issues on aquatic organisms - Marc Metian

• Frontiers in quantifying wildlife behavioural responses to chemical pollution - Michael G Bertram
• Population- and sex-specific sensitivity of the marine amphipod Allorchestes compressa to metal exposure - Dung Dong
• The influence of toxicity modifying factors (pH, DOC, and water hardness) in Australian natural waters on toxicity and bioavailability of zinc to the cladoceran Ceriodaphnia dubia - Anthony Evans
• Nanotechnology in wine growing: knowledge gaps to harness its potential to reduce fungal diseases and environmental impact. - Jon Habito
• Optimising video acquisition for high throughput animal tracking in behavioural phenotyping - Jason Henry
• Evaluating the Chemical Space Covered by HRMS for Characterizing the Environmental Exposome - Youngjoon Jeon
• Soilsafe Aotearoa: A Citizen Science Project Screening for Metal Concentrations in Domestic Soils in New Zealand - Melanie Kah

• EthoCRED: A framework to guide reporting and evaluation of the reliability and relevance of behavioural ecotoxicity studies - Michael G Bertram
• Chronic toxicity of two perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and their mixtures to the waterflea, Ceriodaphnia dubia - Monal Khokhar
• Transfer of Polyfluorinated Phosphate Diesters (diPAPs) in a Plant-Soil System with Maize (Zea Mays) - René Lämmer
• Breaking down a stomach of steel: microplastic extraction from prawn digestive tracts - Joan Y. Q. Li
• Bioaccumulation and biomagnification of microplastics in marine organisms: A review and meta-analysis of current data - Michaela Miller
• Effects of ecologically relevant exposure to microplastics and seawater temperatures on damselfish (Acanthochromis polyacanthus) aggressive behaviour - Vilde Snekkevik

• Trace metals concentrations in the breast feathers of three waterbird species from northern Victoria, Australia. - Damien Nzabanita
• Recovery of high purity cobalt from cobalt spent catalyst used in textile industry - archana painuly
• Influence of nanomaterial ageing and presence of abiotic factors on effects of biogenic phosphorus-based nanomaterials on zebrafish embryos - Ayushi Priyam
• Current-use and legacy pesticides in rivers and streams in Victoria, south-eastern Australia - Paula Sardina
• The influence of abiotic factors on developmental and cardiovascular toxicity of metal nanoparticles in zebrafish embryos (Danio rerio). - Aaron G Schultz
• Tenacity response of the marine limpet Cellana tramoserica to diesel WAF exposure - Julie Mondon

• PFAS in biota: the impact of wastewater treatment plant effluents on fish in Victoria, Australia - Simon Sharp
• Behavioural effects on microplastic exposed fish: how and why to assess?  - Vilde Snekkevik
•   Mixture toxicity assessment of Pharmaceuticals released into Urban Waterways       - Helena Souza
• Discriminating source of oil contamination in teleost fish, Lates calcarifer, using multivariate analysis of a suite of physiological and behavioural biomarkers - Francis Spilsbury
• Urinary concentration of heavy metals in children living in industrialised areas in Dhaka, Bangladesh - E M Tanvir
• Baseline toxicological investigations of brushtail possums (trichosurus sp) in the Strathbogie Ranges, Victoria - Alannah Jensen