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 Seeking presentations!
Presentation proposal deadline: June 29, 2025
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) invites you to participate as a presenter at the 2025 Great Lakes PFAS Summit that takes place
December 2-4, as a virtual event.
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) continue to present some of the biggest challenges in chemical contamination across the world. The Great Lakes PFAS Summit will bring together environmental program managers, policy experts, researchers, and contractors from around the world, to share new methods of addressing this contamination and present innovative technical solutions developed to address these “forever” chemicals.
Participants may include local, state, and federal government officials; environmental consultants and vendors; academic researchers and students; industry managing PFAS contamination; and community organizations.
EGLE will select roughly 24 proposals among the submissions and will notify presenters in September 2025. Additionally, proposals will also be considered for EGLE’s Remediation and Risk Management webinar series. All primary presenters will receive a complimentary Summit registration.
Conference sessions will include the topic areas shown below. Please review the topics to consider the category where your presentation would best fit. Authors may suggest additional topics that are not on the list, but they must fit a general topic area related to PFAS.
Topic Areas
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Regulation: Example topics: PFAS policy and legislation; restrictions and bans; PFAS alternatives and assessment of toxicology of alternatives; biosolids management
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Human Impacts and Community Outreach: Example topics: outreach to impacted communities; case studies involving specific groups of people (farmers, tribal communities, EJ areas, non-English speaking areas)
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PFAS in Consumer Products: Example topics: testing methods; restrictions and bans; PFAS/ingredient labeling; PFAS in food and consumer products; educating the public
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Ecological Impacts: Example topics: PFAS in fish and wildlife; PFAS in agriculture and plant uptake
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Fate and Transport: Example topics: fate and transport in various media; site investigation and rapid characterization; forensics; precursor transformation; vapor intrusion
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Treatment: Example topics: new, innovative treatment technologies; destruction technologies; pilot/field studies; AFFF clean-out technologies. Note: Those presentations with actual implementation of technology will be given preference.
Submission deadline is 11:59 p.m., June 29, 2025.
Questions?
Abstract submission topics and content:
Nicole Sanabria: SanabriaN@Michigan.gov
Abstract submission process:
Alana Berthold: BertholdA@Michigan.gov
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