The 34th annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) took place in Seville from 5-9 May 2024. It is a non-profit, global organisation consisting of more than 16,000 members and 85 partner organisations in over 90 countries, dedicated to the advancement of environmental science and management. This year's event took place under the motto "Science-based solutions in times of crisis: Integrating Science and Policy for Environmental Problems."
The focus was on the following topics:
- Environmental and human toxicology: From molecules to organisms, from omics to in vivo.
- Ecotoxicology becomes stress ecology: From populations to ecosystems and landscapes
- Environmental chemistry and exposure assessment: Analysis, monitoring, fate and modelling
- Ecological and human health risk assessment of chemicals, mixtures and stressors and risk mitigation Strategies
- Life cycle assessment and foot-printing
- Environmental policy, risk management, and science communication
- Moving beyond - cross cutting themes, emerging and transdisciplinary topics
Prof. Dr Edmund Maser, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) in Kiel and PI in CONMAR and Dr Guilherme Lotufo from the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, USA had successfully applied for a session entitled: "Legacy of War: Environmental Contamination, Ecotoxicity and Human Health Concerns of Explosives and Chemical Warfare Agents".
CONMAR contributions:
- A. Beck: Monitoring environmental contamination from relic munitions in the Baltic Sea using lab-based methods and novel fieldable instrumentation
- E. Maser: How Contaminated is our Fish with Munition Chemicals from World War Relics
- M. Brenner, R. Schuster, I. Binder, T. Bünning, J. Strehse, E. Maser: Depuration Kinetics of TNT and its Metabolites in lab Exposed Blue Mussels (Mytilus edulis, L.)
- G. Lotufo, E. Maser, J. Strehse: Munitions at Sea: Making ecotoxicological sense out of a littered seafloor – spatial and temporal considerations
- K. Arinaitwe, A. Beck, M. Gledhill, J. Greinert, E. Achterberg: Spatial Distribution of WWII Legacy Munition Compounds in the Baltic Sea
- T. Bünning, J. Strehse, E. Maser: Ecotoxicological risk of World War relic munitions in the sea after low and high order blast in place operations
- R. Schuster, F. Binder, M. Brenner: Heritage of war - a multi-biomarker approach to investigate the effects of sunken war wrecks on common dab (Limanda limanda) in the North Sea
- W. Schütte, J. Van Landuyt, J. Strehse, T. H. Bünning, S. Van Haelst, K. Parmentier, E. Maser, N. Boon, M. De Rijcke Bacterial clues of shipwreck TNT pollution in the North Sea
- R. Schuster, F. Binder, M. Brenner: Biological effects of munition left on war wrecks on the health of blue mussels (Mytilus edulis, L.) in the North Sea
Edmund Maser, UKSH & Matthias Brenner, AWI
