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Session Proposal: Innovative measurement technologies, characterization methodologies and modeling techniques for emerging contaminants (AGU25)

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Innovative measurement technologies, characterization methodologies and modeling techniques for emerging contaminants

Session ID#: 250777

Session Description:
Emerging contaminants of concern such as PFAS, 6-PPD, pharmaceuticals, and microplastics are distinguished by one or more of the factors: low environmental concentrations, presence in multiple media, non-point sources, and evolving understanding of their impact to human health and biota. These factors coupled with lack of in-situ measurement/detection tools/technologies pose challenges to our understanding of their fate & transport in the environment. This session seeks an interdisciplinary discussion of emerging contaminants in soil, groundwater and surface water, and opportunistic strategies for targeting their concurrent presence in wastewater and runoff, leveraging existing tools and conceptual site models of legacy contaminants. We invite contributions focused on (1) integrated conceptual models (2) innovative lab-scale measurement technologies (3) field-scale monitoring and characterization methodologies (4) computational fate & transport models.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • NS - Near Surface Geophysics
Index Terms:

1831 Groundwater quality [HYDROLOGY]
1835 Hydrogeophysics [HYDROLOGY]
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
1875 Vadose zone [HYDROLOGY]
Primary Convener:  Raghavendra Suribhatla, Haley and Aldrich Inc., Costa Mesa, United States
Conveners:  Bo Guo, University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tuscon, United States, Dimitrios Ntarlagiannis, Rutgers University Newark, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Newark, United States and Lee D Slater, Rutgers University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Newark, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Tahereh Moghtaderi, Rutgers University Newark, Newark, United States
 
Designing a Water Quality Monitoring System to Measure Contaminant Transport and Nutrient Loss from Agricultural Fields (1926191)
Evan Sanford1, Jill K Coleman Wasik2 and Bahareh Hassanpour2, (1)University of Wisconsin River Falls, River Falls, WI, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin River Falls, Plant and Earth Science, River Falls, United States
 
Characterizing PFAS Retention and Saturation Effects in Vadose Zone Soils with Spectral Induced Polarization (1949095)
Tahereh Moghtaderi, Rutgers University Newark, Newark, NJ, United States, Dimitrios Ntarlagiannis, Rutgers University Newark, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Newark, United States, Charles E Schaefer, CDM Smith, Edison, NJ, United States and Lee D Slater, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Energy and Environment Directorate, Richland, United States; Rutgers University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Newark, United States
 
Using Macroinvertebrate Bioaccumulation to Assess Low-Level PFAS Contamination in a Moderately Developed Colorado Watershed (1960642)
Alexandra Chessman, Andrew Fayram, Desirray Bonsall and Timothy Bohling, City of Loveland Utilities, Water Quality Laboratory, Loveland, United States
 
Analytical Improvements Using Orbitrap-IRMS to Measure Solutions of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) for Stable Isotopic Ratios (1961267)
Brett Davidheiser, Thermo Fisher Scientific West Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, FL, United States, Paul Wojtal, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Center for Marine Science, Wilmington, United States, Chad Lane, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Earth and Ocean Sciences, Wilmington, NC, United States and Ralph N Mead, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, United States
 
Nanoplastic Detection in Water with Fluorescence Spectrophotometry (1973725)
Madison Fitzgerald and David M Kahler, Duquesne University, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Science, Pittsburgh, United States
 
Circular Economy-Driven Remediation of Manganese-Contaminated Wastewater Using Natural and Acid-Activated Bentonite (1978334)
Yasser Khawassek, Mohamed H. Taha, Ahmed E. M. Hussein and Ghada M. Hussein, Nuclear Materials Authority, Cairo, Egypt
 
Probabilistic Assessment of Pfas Contamination Into Groundwater by Analytical Model with Monte Carlo Simulations (1986357)
Ruth Gong, Mandeville High School, Mandeville, United States
 
Identifying Sources and Estimating PFAS Loading Mass in a Midwestern Wastewater Treatment System. (2001164)
James Hartrick1, Brendan Francis O'Leary2, Carol J Miller2, Karoline Tangen3, Gwendolyn Schmidt3, Abass Gazal3, Emily Bradley3 and Kishore Gopalakrishnan4, (1)LimnoTech, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)Wayne State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Detroit, MI, United States, (3)Wayne State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Detroit, United States, (4)Wayne State University, Biology, Detroit, United States
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