Primary Convener:
Dengjun Wang, University of Florida

Convener:
Kenneth Carroll, New Mexico State University
Bo Guo, University of Arizona
Mark Brusseau, University of Arizona

Early Career Convener:
Bo Guo, University of Arizona

Chair:
Dengjun Wang, University of Florida
Bo Guo, University of Arizona

Contaminants have adversely impacted agricultural and industrial productivity, but also caused potential risks to human health and the environment. These include conventional contaminants (e.g., heavy metals, nutrients, harmful algae, pesticides, chlorinated solvents, polychlorinated biphenyls, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons), and newly emerging contaminants like per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), microplastics, and 6-PPD. There is a pressing need to improve process-based understanding of contaminant fate, transport, and transformation to develop new cost-effective strategies for contaminated site management, remediation, and risk assessment. This session invites laboratory- and field-scale studies, mathematical modeling, and data analysis in: 1) contaminant sampling, instrumentation, and quantification technologies; 2) contaminant occurrence, distribution, and source zone evaluation; 3) contaminant fate and transport in various environmental compartments, including unsaturated and saturated zone; 4) contaminant transformation, bioaccumulation, toxicity, and risks; 5) contaminant remedial technologies; and 6) artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) for advancing contaminant fate, transport, transformation, and remediation in the environment.

Index Terms
0402 Agricultural systems
0432 Contaminant and organic biogeochemistry
0481 Restoration
0496 Water quality

Suggested Itineraries:
Gulf Coast Region
Biochemistry
Career and Professional Development
Science Communications
Machine Learning and AI
Open Science and Open Data
Global Impacts‚ Solutions‚ & Policies

Cross-Listed:
ED - Education
B - Biogeosciences
GH - GeoHealth
GC - Global Environmental Change

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering