Session Details
[U-08]Advances in Legacy and Emerging Contaminant Biogeosciences
Mon. May 25, 2026 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM JST
Mon. May 25, 2026 12:00 AM - 1:30 AM UTC
Mon. May 25, 2026 12:00 AM - 1:30 AM UTC
Exhibition Hall Special Setting (1) Exhibition Hall 7&8, Makuhari Messe
convener:Michael S Bank(Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway), Sae Yun Kwon(Pohang University of Science and Technology), Zoyne Pedrero Zayas(IPREM, CNRS, France), Chairperson:Bank S Michael(Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway)
Legacy and emerging contaminant pollution continues to be a significant environmental and public health concern. Processes of legacy and emerging contaminant fate and transport, and biotic uptake still have critical knowledge gaps. The goal of this session is to highlight recent scientific advances in legacy (heavy metals, POPS) and emerging contaminants (PFAS-PFOA compounds, microplastics) biogeosciences and impacts. Abstracts will be considered on a variety of topics including environmental cycling, exposure dynamics, toxicological impacts, bioaccumulation kinetics, and trophic transfer, etc. We encourage presentations to be submitted from a wide array of ecosystems including the atmosphere, and terrestrial, freshwater, and marine environments. Papers that consider the role of climate change, human health impacts, temporal trends, ecosystem recovery, source apportionment, food web dynamics, impacts on biodiversity, and biotic and abiotic controls on legacy and emerging contaminant cycling are strongly encouraged.
[U08-01]Using Machine Learning Models to Track Legacy and Emerging Contaminants
*Michael S Bank1 (1.Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway)
[U08-02]Planetary health impacts of the plastisphere microbiome
*Changchao Li1 (1.The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
[U08-03]Elevated methylmercury in Antarctic mosslands
*Martin Tsui1,2, Matthew Cheng1, Shaoyi Wang1, Ganxing Liu1, Yingyu Bao2, Marcellus Leung1, Luming Yang1, Zhao Liang Chen1, Jiying Li3, Jake Chung1, Sae Yun Kwon4, Huan Zhong5, Patrick Lee2, Lin Liu1, Alex Chow1 (1.Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2.City University of Hong Kong, 3.Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 4.Pohang University of Science and Technology, 5.Nanjing University)
[U08-04]Overlooked pollution of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in sandy coastal environments: particle-driven fate and environmental implications
*Jianwei Dong1 (1.Nanjing Normal University)
[U08-05]A Next-Generation Framework for Global Mercury Cycling in a Fully Coupled Earth System Model
*Yanxu Zhang1, Peng Zhang2, Tengfei Yuan1, Dong Peng2, Mao Mao1, Shaojian Huang1 (1.Tulane University, 2.Nanjing University)
[U08-06]Ocean acidification may increase the biological impact of legacy metal pollution, a case study from mine waste deposits in Arctic Norway.
*Sam Rastrick1, Helen Rastrick1, Weiwei Jiang2, James Brown, Terje van der Meeren van der Meeren1, Zengjie Jiang2, Michael Bank Bank1 (1.The Institute of Marine Research, Norway, 2.Yellow sea fisheries research institute)