Division of Environmental Chemistry: Call for Abstracts

Submission Deadline: Monday, September 29 2025

Program Chair(s): Slawo Lomnicki, Bikram Subedi

Note: Submission deadlines are at 11:59 EST on the day posted. Symposia, organizers and deadlines are subject to change. Last updated August 15, 2025.

Title Type Submission Type Organizer Cosponsor Description
ACS Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Science & Technology (Invited) Oral Invited
  • G&A: Grants and Awards Committee
Advanced Materials and Computation For Environmental Applications Oral Contributed
  • COMP: Division of Computers in Chemistry
  • ANYL: Division of Analytical Chemistry
Population growth, rising water demands, degrading freshwater supplies, changing weather patterns, e...
Advances in PFAS Research and Outlook Oral Contributed Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are manmade chemicals and have been widely used since thei...
Advancing Public Health Surveillance: Biomonitoring and Wastewater Analysis Oral Contributed
  • CHAS: Division of Chemical Health and Safety
  • CCPA: Committee on Chemistry and Public Affairs
  • CCA: Committee on Community Activities
Exposure to a diverse range of environmental contaminants—both occupational and environmental—th...
Advancing Resource Recovery For Critical Minerals Oral Contributed As global demand for critical minerals—such as rare earth elements, lithium, cobalt, and nickel—...
Aging of Micro- and Nanoplastics In The Environment and The Associated Analytical Approaches Oral Contributed
  • CES: Committee on Environment and Sustainability
  • ANYL: Division of Analytical Chemistry
This symposium will focus on the environmental aging processes of micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) and...
Aquatic Photochemistry Oral Contributed Aquatic photochemical transformations are important in geochemistry and environmental chemistry in d...
Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Sensing for Enhancing Food Safety Oral Contributed Building on emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in food safety and multimodal sensing...
Behavior of Advanced Materials and Emerging Contaminants in the Soil-Plant Continuum Oral Contributed
  • CES: Committee on Environment and Sustainability
  • AGRO: Division of Agrochemicals
Modern agriculture is increasingly shaped by two parallel trends: the intentional application of adv...
Chemistry in Communities: Important Challenges To Understanding and Measuring Air, Water, and Soil Environmental Pollution Oral Contributed
  • CES: Committee on Environment and Sustainability
  • CCPA: Committee on Chemistry and Public Affairs
  • CCA: Committee on Community Activities
  • BMGT: Division of Business Development and Management
Environmental challenges, both anthropogenic and natural, abound in communities facing decades of is...
Circular Chemistry For Sustainable Development: Building Green Economies in Latin America and the Caribbean Oral Contributed
  • IAC: International Activities Committee
  • I&EC: Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
  • CES: Committee on Environment and Sustainability
  • BMGT: Division of Business Development and Management
This symposium explores how shifting Latin America and the Caribbean’s chemical sector from a line...
Circular Economy of Synthetic and Bio-Based Polymers: Advances in Feedstocks, (Bio)Degradation, Recycling, and Chemistry Oral Contributed
  • CEPA: Committee on Economic and Professional Affairs
  • CES: Committee on Environment and Sustainability
Our society is shifting from a linear economic model (take-make-use-dispose) to a circular economic ...
Electrified Water Treatment Processes Oral Contributed Most existing water treatment processes highly rely on the use of chemicals, such as coagulants, oxi...
Enabling Circular Economy Through the Sustainable Conversion of Waste Streams Into Valuable Resources Oral Contributed
  • SCHB: Division of Small Chemical Businesses
  • CES: Committee on Environment and Sustainability
  • BMGT: Division of Business Development and Management
This symposium aims to explore innovative scientific and engineering solutions that advance a sustai...
Environmental Contaminants: Impacts, Exposure, and Toxic Effects Oral Contributed A wide range of chemicals and chemical mixtures are released by human activity, including both legac...
Environmental Implications and Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Oral Contributed
  • COMP: Division of Computers in Chemistry
  • CHED: Division of Chemical Education
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) has opened new front...
ES&T Journals Award Session For James J. Morgan Early Career Lectureship (Invited) Oral Invited
  • G&A: Grants and Awards Committee
General Environmental Chemistry Oral Contributed Recent advances in our understanding of environmental chemistry and engineering research, education,...
Geochemical Perspectives on Energy Production, Development, and Transition Oral Contributed Addressing the geochemical and environmental implications of energy production, development, and tra...
Innovation, Community Impact, and Sustainable Chemistry Solutions Across the Chemical Enterprise: A Multi-Stakeholder Approach Oral Contributed
  • CES: Committee on Environment and Sustainability
  • CCPA: Committee on Chemistry and Public Affairs
  • CCA: Committee on Community Activities
While chemical innovations drive global progress, they create environmental challenges that dispropo...
Interfaces, Interactions, and Innovation: A Holistic View of PFAS Science Oral Contributed
  • CES: Committee on Environment and Sustainability
This symposium will explore the multifaceted chemistry of PFAS, spanning fundamental molecular behav...
Mass Spectrometry For Environmental Processes and Contaminant Fate Oral Contributed
  • CES: Committee on Environment and Sustainability
Mass spectrometry has played a central role in advancing the molecular-level understanding of natura...
Methane: Chemistry of a Greenhouse Gas Oral Contributed
  • CES: Committee on Environment and Sustainability
Methane (natural gas) is an insidious greenhouse gas, accounting for about 1/3 of the recent increas...
Microplastics, Nanoplastics, and Plastic Additives: Emerging Techniques For Detection and Assessing Environmental Impacts Oral Contributed
  • CES: Committee on Environment and Sustainability
Microplastic (anthropogenic polymer particles < 5 millimeters in diameter) research is an evolving f...
Nanocomposites With Tunable Interfaces For Enhanced Catalytic Reactivity In Environmental Applications Oral Contributed
  • CES: Committee on Environment and Sustainability
  • CATL: Division of Catalysis Science and Technology
This symposium aims to showcase recent advances in the design and applications of nanocomposites wit...
Nanotechnology In Water and Wastewater Treatment: Advanced Materials For A Sustainable Future Oral Contributed Population growth, rising water demands, deteriorating freshwater supplies, shifting climate pattern...
New Trends in Air Pollution Oral Contributed Air pollution issues are one of the most important drivers of the environmental human health. With t...
Photocatalytic Fuel Synthesis: Mechanisms, Materials, and Future Trends; Honoring Professor Detlef W. Bahnemann, Germany Oral Contributed
  • ENFL: Division of Energy and Fuels
  • CES: Committee on Environment and Sustainability
Rare Earth Element: Occurrences, Extraction Method Development, and Application Oral Contributed
  • GEOC: Division of Geochemistry
  • ENFL: Division of Energy and Fuels
  • CES: Committee on Environment and Sustainability
This symposium invites contributions on the above topics from researchers across academia, national ...
Sustainable Lab Program for General Chemistry Oral Contributed
Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) Fire Impacts On Environmental Systems: Integrating Soil, Water, Air, and Public Health Perspectives Oral Contributed
  • ENFL: Division of Energy and Fuels
  • COMSCI: Committee on Science
  • CES: Committee on Environment and Sustainability
  • AGRO: Division of Agrochemicals
The recent Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) fires, particularly in the Los Angeles regions, have highl...
Advanced Materials and Computation For Environmental Applications Poster Contributed
  • COMP: Division of Computers in Chemistry
  • ANYL: Division of Analytical Chemistry
Population growth, rising water demands, degrading freshwater supplies, changing weather patterns, e...
Advances in PFAS Research and Outlook Poster Contributed Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are manmade chemicals and have been widely used since thei...
Advancing Public Health Surveillance: Biomonitoring and Wastewater Analysis Poster Contributed Exposure to a diverse range of environmental contaminants—both occupational and environmental—th...
Advancing Resource Recovery For Critical Minerals Poster Contributed As global demand for critical minerals—such as rare earth elements, lithium, cobalt, and nickel—...
Aging of Micro- and Nanoplastics In The Environment and The Associated Analytical Approaches Poster Contributed
  • CES: Committee on Environment and Sustainability
  • ANYL: Division of Analytical Chemistry
This symposium will focus on the environmental aging processes of micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) and...
Aquatic Photochemistry Poster Contributed Aquatic photochemical transformations are important in geochemistry and environmental chemistry in d...
Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Sensing for Enhancing Food Safety Poster Contributed Building on emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in food safety and multimodal sensing...
Behavior of Advanced Materials and Emerging Contaminants in the Soil-Plant Continuum Poster Contributed Modern agriculture is increasingly shaped by two parallel trends: the intentional application of adv...
Chemistry in Communities: Important Challenges To Understanding and Measuring Air, Water, and Soil Environmental Pollution Poster Contributed
  • CES: Committee on Environment and Sustainability
  • CCPA: Committee on Chemistry and Public Affairs
  • CCA: Committee on Community Activities
  • BMGT: Division of Business Development and Management
Environmental challenges, both anthropogenic and natural, abound in communities facing decades of is...
Circular Chemistry For Sustainable Development: Building Green Economies in Latin America and the Caribbean Poster Contributed
  • IAC: International Activities Committee
  • I&EC: Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
  • CES: Committee on Environment and Sustainability
  • BMGT: Division of Business Development and Management
This symposium explores how shifting Latin America and the Caribbean’s chemical sector from a line...
Circular Economy of Synthetic and Bio-Based Polymers: Advances in Feedstocks, (Bio)Degradation, Recycling, and Chemistry Poster Contributed
  • CEPA: Committee on Economic and Professional Affairs
  • CES: Committee on Environment and Sustainability
Our society is shifting from a linear economic model (take-make-use-dispose) to a circular economic ...
Electrified Water Treatment Processes Poster Contributed Most existing water treatment processes highly rely on the use of chemicals, such as coagulants, oxi...
Enabling Circular Economy Through the Sustainable Conversion of Waste Streams Into Valuable Resources Poster Contributed
  • SCHB: Division of Small Chemical Businesses
  • CES: Committee on Environment and Sustainability
  • BMGT: Division of Business Development and Management
This symposium aims to explore innovative scientific and engineering solutions that advance a sustai...
Environmental Contaminants: Impacts, Exposure, and Toxic Effects Poster Contributed A wide range of chemicals and chemical mixtures are released by human activity, including both legac...
Environmental Implications and Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Poster Contributed
  • COMP: Division of Computers in Chemistry
  • CHED: Division of Chemical Education
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) has opened new front...
General Environmental Chemistry Poster Contributed Recent advances in our understanding of environmental chemistry and engineering research, education,...
Geochemical Perspectives on Energy Production, Development, and Transition Poster Contributed Addressing the geochemical and environmental implications of energy production, development, and tra...
Innovation, Community Impact, and Sustainable Chemistry Solutions Across the Chemical Enterprise: A Multi-Stakeholder Approach Poster Contributed
  • CES: Committee on Environment and Sustainability
  • CCPA: Committee on Chemistry and Public Affairs
  • CCA: Committee on Community Activities
While chemical innovations drive global progress, they create environmental challenges that dispropo...
Interfaces, Interactions, and Innovation: A Holistic View of PFAS Science Poster Contributed
  • CES: Committee on Environment and Sustainability
This symposium will explore the multifaceted chemistry of PFAS, spanning fundamental molecular behav...
Mass Spectrometry For Environmental Processes and Contaminant Fate Poster Contributed
  • CES: Committee on Environment and Sustainability
Mass spectrometry has played a central role in advancing the molecular-level understanding of natura...
Methane: Chemistry of a Greenhouse Gas Poster Contributed
  • CES: Committee on Environment and Sustainability
Methane (natural gas) is an insidious greenhouse gas, accounting for about 1/3 of the recent increas...
Microplastics, Nanoplastics, and Plastic Additives: Emerging Techniques For Detection and Assessing Environmental Impacts Poster Contributed
  • CES: Committee on Environment and Sustainability
Microplastic (anthropogenic polymer particles < 5 millimeters in diameter) research is an evolving f...
Nanocomposites With Tunable Interfaces For Enhanced Catalytic Reactivity In Environmental Applications Poster Contributed
  • CES: Committee on Environment and Sustainability
  • CATL: Division of Catalysis Science and Technology
This symposium aims to showcase recent advances in the design and applications of nanocomposites wit...
Nanotechnology In Water and Wastewater Treatment: Advanced Materials For A Sustainable Future Poster Contributed Population growth, rising water demands, deteriorating freshwater supplies, shifting climate pattern...
New Trends in Air Pollution Poster Contributed Air pollution issues are one of the most important drivers of the environmental human health. With t...
Photocatalytic Fuel Synthesis: Mechanisms, Materials, and Future Trends; Honoring Professor Detlef W. Bahnemann, Germany Poster Contributed
  • ENFL: Division of Energy and Fuels
  • CES: Committee on Environment and Sustainability
Rare Earth Element: Occurrences, Extraction Method Development, and Application Poster Contributed
  • GEOC: Division of Geochemistry
  • ENFL: Division of Energy and Fuels
  • CES: Committee on Environment and Sustainability
This symposium invites contributions on the above topics from researchers across academia, national ...
Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) Fire Impacts On Environmental Systems: Integrating Soil, Water, Air, and Public Health Perspectives Poster Contributed
  • ENFL: Division of Energy and Fuels
  • COMSCI: Committee on Science
  • CES: Committee on Environment and Sustainability
  • AGRO: Division of Agrochemicals
The recent Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) fires, particularly in the Los Angeles regions, have highl...
Transforming Chemistry Practices for Sustainability and Safety (Invited) Oral Invited
Virtual Graduate Students Symposium in Asia-Pacific Region on Current Environmental Issues Oral Contributed
PFAS in the Atmosphere: Sources, Fate, and Transport Oral Contributed Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a large class of synthetic chemicals increasingly rec...
PFAS in the Atmosphere: Sources, Fate, and Transport Poster Contributed Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a large class of synthetic chemicals increasingly rec...