The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) invites you to participate as a presenter at the 6th Annual Great Lakes PFAS Summit taking place December 2-4 as a virtual event.
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 be selecting roughly 24 abstracts among the submissions and will notify presenters in September 2025. Additionally, abstracts will also be considered for EGLE’s Remediation & Risk Management webinar series. All primary presenters will receive a complimentary Summit registration.
Presentation Abstract Submission Guidelines
Abstract submission deadline: 11:59 PM, June 29, 2025.
Abstract Title: Limited to 12 words.
Abstract Length: Limited to 300 words.
Presentations should be at least 30 minutes, and not more than 40 minutes, in length. Longer presentations should be submitted as two separate presentations of equal length (e.g., Part 1 and Part 2) .
Sessions will be hosted in Zoom. Acceptable presentation formats are PowerPoint (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat (.pdf). Sessions will be recorded and made available after the event.
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
- Regulation
Example topics: PFAS policy and legislation; restrictions and bans; PFAS alternatives and assessment of toxicology of alternatives; biosolids management - 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) - PFAS in Consumer Products
Example topics: testing methods; restrictions and bans; PFAS/ingredient labeling; PFAS in food and consumer products; educating the public - Ecological Impacts
Example topics: PFAS in fish and wildlife; PFAS in agriculture and plant uptake - Fate and Transport
Example topics: fate and transport in various media; site investigation and rapid characterization; forensics; precursor transformation; vapor intrusion - 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. Note: Those presentations with actual implementation of technology will be given preference. Exhibitor opportunities will be available.