Scope of ContaSed2025
Sediments are sources and sinks of contaminants and play an essential role in mediating pollutants across compartments of ecosystems. Following ContaSed 2021, ContaSed2025 will focus on natural and anthopogenic contaminants, primarily on emerging and already regulated organic pollutants, metallorganics, heavy metals, microplastics and algae toxins. A Session is dedicated to risk assessment, remediation and policy. We invite contributions with empirical or modelling studies to the following Sessions:
Session 1: Analytical procedures and methods for assessing sediment contamination
Innovative analytical techniques including sampling, extraction and detection techniques, as well as robust data processing to assess sediment contamination, prioritize relevant contaminants, and identify challenging compounds. Sampling and methods for in situ assessment of contaminated sediments.
Session 2: From source to sink: transport and deposition of contaminants in sediments from inland and marine waters
Location of pollution sources, transport dynamics, and time series and/or spatial distribution of contaminated sediments to reconstruct anthropogenic changes over time from decades to millennia. Monitoring data from different aquatic settings under multiple stressors derived from anthropogenic activities.
Session 3: Assessing risks of contaminants in sediments: methodologies, ecotoxicological case studies, and risk succession.
Methods for assessing environmental risk and bioaccumulation, chemical proxies for bioavailability, good practices, and lessons learned from case studies on contaminated sediments' effects and risk assessment.
Session 4: Fate of contaminants in depositional settings
Transformation, speciation, sorption, transport, deposition of sediment-bounded chemicals, and bioremediation. Chemicals persistence/tansformation in the sedimentary column.
Session 5: Remediation and policy
Remediation targets and sediment remediation, legal frameworks, policies and implementation, and science-policy interface.
Deadlines
Abstract submission: February 15, 2025
Notification for acceptance of papers/form of presentation: March 20, 2025
Registration and payment (oral presenters): April 30, 2025
Registration and payment (poster presenters): June 16, 2025
