We are excited to share the names of the award recipients of our Student Awards Program at SETAC_HDC Spring Meeting 2024!

We granted three awards for excellent platform presentations and five awards for poster presentations which included 3-minute rapid-fire talks on their research.

The top winner will also receive a registration waiver for the SETAC North America Meeting 2024.

Platform presentation Winners

1^st Place: Abdullah Al-Amin, Temple University

Presentation Title: Efficacy of spent coffee ground derived biochar on stormwater derived Pb removal

2^nd Place: Ashkan Alborzi, PhD; Texas Tech University [current: CDM Smith]

Presentation Title: Development of single model capable to extent the equilibrium for different families of contaminant in polymeric passive sampling

3^rd Place: Khalid Mustafa, Stevens Institute of Technology

Presentation Title: Understanding PFAS transformations during wastewater treatment: preliminary results

Poster presentation Winners

1^st Place: Renee Heller, New York University

Presentation Title: A comparison of the effect of thermal stress and chemical exposure on Atlantic tomcod Microgadus tomcod populations from the Hudson River and Maine

2^nd Place: Adedamola Samuel Adenekan, New York University

Presentation Title: Temperature stress during development on Hudson River Atlantic tomcod

 3^rd Place: Kristin Terez, New York University

Presentation Title: Development of toxicity to PAHs in Hudson River ahr2Variant Atlantic tomcod compared to a reference population

4^th Place: Angelina Lewis, Rowan University

Presentation Title: Stormwater heavy metal distribution in Camden, New Jersey

5^th Place: Arash Aliasghar, Stevens Institute of Technology

Presentation Title: Phytotechnology in wastewater treatment: Impact of Vetiver grass (Chrysipogon zizanioides) coverage rates on nitrate removal in hydroponic setting

Congratulations to the award winners for your outstanding research work and presentations!

Thank you,

SETAC HDC Director Board