Past Asia-Pacific Award Winners

And we are pleased to acknowledge the three Honorary Life Members from the Australasian Society of Ecotoxicology (now merged with SETAC):

Margaret Burchett
Des Connell
David Leece

The SETAC Asia-Pacific Student Research Grant awards a research student AUD $2,500 to advance a research project that makes an important contribution to environmental chemistry and/or toxicology in the Asia-Pacific region.  

2023

Stacey O'Brian

The University of Queensland

Stacey O'Brian research examens microplastics in the environment. The proposed research will use a simultaneous sampling program to calculate the mass concentration of plastics in various compartments using Pyr-GC/MS. The aim is to understand the fluxes, relationships and sources of plastics in air. 

You can keep up to date with O'Brian's research on Twitter and ResearchGate. 

Honorable mentions go to Shannon Kaiser, Macquarie University, and Rachel Mackie, University of Queensland, for their excellent proposals.

The Best Student Presentation Awards (BPA) honour an individual prominent performance by a student for the top Platform Presentation and Poster Presentations at the SETAC Asia-Pacific meeting.

2024 Award Winners at the SETAC Asia-Pacific 14th Biennial Meeting, Tianjin, China

Best Student Posters Presentation Awards

Liwei He, Jinan University, China: Identification of toxicants in treated flowback and produced water from shale gas exploitation using effect directed analysis combined with nontarget screening

Kailin Shen, Changwon National University, Korea: Suspect and nontarget screening of organic pollutants in purified-, bottled-, and tap Water, using liquid chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry: Involving flame retardants, plasticizers, etc

May Britt Rian: Stockholm University, Sweden: Non-Target screening of persistent chemicals in Swedish waters based on wastewater persistency

Best Student Oral Presentation Awards

Bo Fang, Nankai University, China: Emerging polyfluoroalkyl substances in contemporary aqueous film-forming foams: Nontarget identification and aerobic soil transformation

Xintong Liu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China: The tip of the iceberg: Contribution of anthropogenic contaminants and natural toxins to species-specific seawater toxicity

Cheng Tang, The University of Queensland, Australia: Plastic-related oligomers migrated from single and multilayer breast milk storage bags