LINK TO ATTEND IFHAB EVENING PANEL DISCUSSION
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
5:30 PM | (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) | 1 hr 45 mins
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5:30 PM | (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) | 1 hr 45 mins
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Meeting number (access code): 2314 778 2390
Meeting password: 7HBnX3MPdg2
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IFHAB and the International Conference on Toxic Cyanobacteria (ICTC) are jointly hosting the ICTC 12th Conference to be held at the University of Toledo in May 2022! We are excited to host you in northwest Ohio. Below are the afternoon and evening sessions organized by IFHAB. Note the Evening Panel Session is a hybrid event (details to join online are provided above).
IFHAB Afternoon Session:
Interdisciplinary Freshwater Harmful Algal Bloom Workshop: Current and future issues in cyanobacterial harmful algal bloom detection, monitoring, mitigation and management
This session will highlight challenges and advancements in the understanding, monitoring, and application of interdisciplinary freshwater HABs research. Topics will include fundamental research, combining interdisciplinary research approaches, spatial/temporal trends, citizen science, and applications to policy or resource management.
IFHAB Evening Panel Session:
Experts in the hot seat: What is the greatest challenge facing us in the management and reduction of cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms?
This session and panel discussion will highlight the challenges researchers face when communicating key scientific findings to advance public awareness/education and decision-making. Topics with a focus on how science/research is applied and communicated in the real world including regional case studies, alternative perspectives, liability mitigation, science-policy-risk communication and setting realistic expectations.
IFHAB Afternoon Session:
Interdisciplinary Freshwater Harmful Algal Bloom Workshop: Current and future issues in cyanobacterial harmful algal bloom detection, monitoring, mitigation and management
This session will highlight challenges and advancements in the understanding, monitoring, and application of interdisciplinary freshwater HABs research. Topics will include fundamental research, combining interdisciplinary research approaches, spatial/temporal trends, citizen science, and applications to policy or resource management.
IFHAB Evening Panel Session:
Experts in the hot seat: What is the greatest challenge facing us in the management and reduction of cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms?
This session and panel discussion will highlight the challenges researchers face when communicating key scientific findings to advance public awareness/education and decision-making. Topics with a focus on how science/research is applied and communicated in the real world including regional case studies, alternative perspectives, liability mitigation, science-policy-risk communication and setting realistic expectations.
EVENING PANEL SPEAK PROFILES
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Wayne Carmichael
Professor Carmichael has studied cyanobacteria and cyanotoxins for over 50 years. During his career he has held visiting faculty appointments at academic institutions in Hawaii, Scotland, Norway, China, Portugal, Brazil, Japan, Ukraine and Australia. He has consulted on CyanoHABs and water resource management throughout the USA, in Brazil, Australia, South Africa, Honduras, Columbia, Panama, Canada and more.Prof Carmichael’s fields of study have encompassed botany, zoology, biology, limnology, toxicology, pharmacology, and environmental science. In 1980 Prof Carmichael founded the International Conference on Toxic Cyanobacteria (ICTC) which has been staged on a regular basis ever since. The first of the conferences was hosted at Wright State University OH, and since then they have been staged at a variety of venues internationally. He is pleased to see that ICTC-12 is held once again in its “home state” of Ohio. His expertise has been valued and utilized by organizations as diverse as the Center for Disease Control (CDC), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Prof. Carmichael had a role in the WHO’s 1998-99 initiative to develop guidelines for cyanotoxins standards in drinking and recreational waters. The publication: "Toxic Cyanobacteria in Water: A guide to their public health consequences, monitoring and management. 1999.” now serves as the basis for setting of guidelines for microcystins in water supplies worldwide. Professor Carmichael served on the National Harmful Algae Bloom Committee of the USA for 6 years. Now retired, his projects focus on remediation and prevention of harmful cyanobacteria in municipal and recreational water supplies. This includes serving on national and international HAB committees, organization of and participation in workshops and symposia plus advising on HAB remediation policy, strategy and methods for local, state, national and international agencies and groups. |
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Ingrid Chorus
Ingrid Chorus headed the Department on Drinking Water and Swimming Pool Hygiene of the Federal Environment Agency of Germany, which also acts as a World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Centre. She has extensive professional experience in the areas both of managing water to keep it safe for human use and of protecting water resources. Her focus is on phytoplankton ecology and on toxic cyanobacteria, combining research and policy development. Most recently, she supported WHO in the derivation of cyanotoxin guideline values, and together with Martin Welker she edited the second edition of the WHO guidebook “Toxic Cyanobacteria in Water”, published in March 2021. |
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Lori Bradford
Dr. Lori Bradford (PhD) is a Canada Research Chair in Incorporating Social and Cultural Factors into Engineering Design, and editor of The Engaged Scholar Journal at the University of Saskatchewan. Her work bridges social and cultural sciences, community-based research, and technical work in a variety of contexts such as watershed management, urban and rural water security, and bioremediation. She is principal investigator on a Lake Winnipeg Basin Program-funded citizen-science research project on Indigenous Engagement in Nutrient Management in Treaties 4, 5, and 6; and a co-investigator looking at risk perceptions, and other human dimensions in the Global Water Futures-funded FormBlooms project. With ten years of engaged scholarship partnered with Indigenous communities in the Prairies, she will share cross-cultural insights on issues of water governance and policies increasing risks to Indigenous communities in the Prairie region. |
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Keith Loftin
Dr. Loftin received his BS, MS, and PhD from the University of Missouri-Rolla in Polymers and Coatings Chemistry, Environmental Engineering, and Civil Engineering with an emphasis in Environmental Engineering respectively. He has been with the US Geological Survey at the Kansas Water Science Center in Lawrence, Kansas as a research chemist since 2004, and is the currently the Environmental Health Mission Area Toxins and Harmful Algal Bloom Team Science Lead and Supervisor of the Algal and Other Toxins Laboratory. Dr. Loftin received several awards from the EPA Office of Water and the Rudolph Hering Medal for his work on drinking water treatment in antibiotics and National surveys of cyanotoxins in lakes and reservoirs, and wetlands. He has spent 18 years working on algal toxin detection methods, bloom dynamics, toxin production, toxin exposure and treatment in addition to work on antibiotics, other pharmaceuticals, herbicides and pesticides. |
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René Shahmohamadloo
René is both a Liber Ero Postdoctoral Fellow and NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at Washington State University and the University of Guelph. His research aims to advance our understanding of human-induced environmental change on ecological and evolutionary processes in wildlife. Specifically, René researches pollution-driven adaptation, or “evolutionary ecotoxicology”, which seeks to understand the role of adaptation in organisms that enable populations to thrive in anthropogenically-stressed ecosystems. His work focuses on understanding the biology of harmful algal blooms and the evolutionary and toxicological responses on organisms exposed to them. René serves on the Board of Directors for the International Association for Great Lakes Research and is on the Scientific Planning Committee for the Interdisciplinary Freshwater Harmful Algal Blooms Workshop. |
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Arash Zamyadi
Arash has a PhD in Civil Engineering from Polytechnique Montreal, The University of Montreal (Canada). He is Water Research Australia Limited (WaterRA) Victoria based Research Manager hosted by Melbourne Water. He also holds a Senior Lecturer position at Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Melbourne. Arash has 11 years of experience working with academics, government agencies, utilities and industry partners in Australia, Canada, the United States and European Union to tackle water and environmental related challenges. He brings to the water sector his research expertise in how climate change and harmful algal blooms affect water treatment, removal of combined microbial and chemical contaminants, and reuse opportunities. He is also leading WaterRA strategic initiative on “water-energy nexus and nutrient recovery within circular economy framework”, and “hydrogen economy based advanced treatment”. Arash has a strong publication record (66 papers, 16 and 5 published in 2021 and 2022 accordingly, two book chapters, Google H-index: 24). He is an International Water Association Fellow for his sustained outstanding contribution as an engineer, educator, researcher and scientist to the water profession. |