Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Water Nexus Issues: Real or Repackaged?
Discussion Leader: Timothy Strathmann (Colorado School of Mines, USA)
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:50 pm - 8:25 pm
Korneel Rabaey (Ghent University, Belgium)
"Water - Chemistry: The Hidden Nexus"
8:25 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 9:15 pm
Jeremy Guest (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
"Resource Recovery from Your Bodily Waste: The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Molecular Scale Processes, Mega Trends
Discussion Leader: Eric Pierce (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:45 am
Liane G. Benning (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany)
"The Great Melting: How Small Living Things Affect Global Processes"
9:45 am - 10:05 am
Discussion
10:05 am - 10:35 am
Coffee Break
10:35 am - 11:10 am
Brandy Toner (University of Minnesota, USA)
"Small Particles, Big Ocean: The Speciation of Particulate Iron in Marine Geochemical Gradients"
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:05 pm
Heather Allen (Ohio State University, USA)
"Salt Water and Ocean Gunk: Ion and Lipid Organization at the Ocean's Surface"
12:05 pm - 12:25 pm
Discussion
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Power Hour
The GRC Power Hour is an optional informal gathering open to all meeting participants. It is designed to help address the challenges women face in science and support the professional growth of women in our communities by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
Organizer: Jennifer Field (Oregon State University, USA)
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Impacts of Unconventional Gas and Oil Production
Discussion Leader: Charles Werth (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:40 pm - 8:15 pm
Avner Vengosh (Duke University, USA)
"The Origin of Hydraulic Fracturing Fluids"
8:15 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:10 pm
Paula Mouser (University of New Hampshire, USA)
"The Outsiders: Microbial Colonization and Sustenance in Fractured Shale"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Oxidative Processes and Contaminant Transformations
Discussion Leader: Karl Linden (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:45 am
Christina Remucal (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
"Shining Light on Dissolved Organic Matter: Applying Both Old and New Tools to Resolve Composition and Reactivity"
9:45 am - 10:05 am
Discussion
10:05 am - 10:35 am
Coffee Break
10:35 am - 11:10 am
Xiaohong Guan (Tongji University, China)
"Inducing Soluble Mn(III) Generation for Rapid Organic Contaminants Abatement"
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:05 pm
Brian Chaplin (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
"Electrochemical Advanced Oxidation Processes: Challenges and Opportunities for an Emerging Water Treatment Technology"
12:05 pm - 12:25 pm
Discussion
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Reinventing the Toilet
Discussion Leader: Alison Parker (Cranfield University, United Kingdom)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:40 pm - 8:15 pm
Tove Larsen (Eawag - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Switzerland)
"From Paris to Nairobi via Beijing: Innovative Source-Separating Toilet Technology for Global Water and Sanitation Challenges"
8:15 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:10 pm
Michael Hoffmann (California Institute of Technology, USA)
"Solar-Powered Onsite Wastewater Treatment: From a Science-Based Design Concept to Full-Scale Manufacturing in Six Years"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Antibiotic Resistance in Water Systems
Discussion Leader: Diana Aga (University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA)
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:45 am
Tong Zhang (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China)
"Metagenomic Insights into Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Environments"
9:45 am - 10:05 am
Discussion
10:05 am - 10:35 am
Coffee Break
10:35 am - 11:10 am
Michael Gillings (Macquarie University, Australia)
"Pollutants that Replicate: Mobile Elements, Integrons and Resistance Genes"
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:05 pm
Amy Pruden (Virginia Tech, USA)
"Antibiotic Resistance in the Water Environment: What Do We Monitor? What Do We Mitigate?"
12:05 pm - 12:25 pm
Discussion
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Microplastics
Discussion Leader: Tamara Galloway (University of Exeter, United Kingdom)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:40 pm - 8:15 pm
Chelsea Rochman (University of Toronto, Canada)
"Contamination and Effects of Plastic Debris and Associated Chemicals in the Marine Environment"
8:15 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:10 pm
Albert Koelmans (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)
"Microplastics: Closing the Gap Between the Known and Unknown"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Toxicant Exposure
Discussion Leader: Mark Strynar (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, USA)
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:45 am
Kim Anderson (Oregon State University, USA)
"Novel Approach to Assess Personal Chemical Exposure"
9:45 am - 10:05 am
Discussion
10:05 am - 10:35 am
Coffee Break
10:35 am - 11:10 am
Kevin Thomas (University of Queensland, Australia)
"What Else Can the Analysis of Urban Wastewater Reveal About Communities?"
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:05 pm
Frank von der Kammer (University of Vienna, Austria)
"Shining Light on the Neglected Dimensions: Hydrosols in the Aquatic Environment - A New Class of Pollutants?"
12:05 pm - 12:25 pm
Discussion
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Translating Aquatic Science Research to Practice
Discussion Leaders: Theresa Slifko (Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, USA) and Anh Pham (Carleton University, Canada)
7:30 pm - 7:35 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:35 pm - 8:10 pm
Peter Fiske (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
"Innovation Pathways in the Water Ecosystem: The PAX Water Story"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
Andrew Maizel (Colorado School of Mines, USA)
"Semiquantitative Suspect Screening to Assess Poly- and Perfluoroalkyl Substances in the Environment"
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
Cresten Mansfedt (Eawag, Switzerland)
"The Influence of the Solids Retention Time on Community Composition and Micropollutant Biotransformation"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Boya Xiong (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"Polyacrylamide Degradation During Hydraulic Fracturing at Deep Subsurface"
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm
Garrett McKay (Colorado School of Mines, USA)
"The Case Against Charge-Transfer Interactions in Dissolved Organic Matter Photophysics"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure