The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) invites you to participate as a presenter at the 7th Annual Great Lakes PFAS Summit taking place December 1–3 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 2026. 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 28, 2026.
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
- Approaches to Regulation
Example topics: Local, state, federal, and worldwide PFAS policy and legislation; biosolids management - Human Health Impacts and Community Outreach
Example topics: outreach to impacted communities; case studies involving firefighters, farmers, tribal communities, EJ areas, non-English speaking areas; PFAS alternatives and toxicological assessment - 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; PFAS in sediments - Fate and Transport
Example topics: fate and transport in various media; site investigation and rapid characterization; forensics; precursor transformation; vapor intrusion; short-chain PFAS - Treatment Technology
While the Great Lakes PFAS Summit has served as a forum to share new research and methods for addressing critical issues involving per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), its ability to incorporate PFAS treatment technology has become limited—even though this field has seen rapid expansion and growth. Therefore, EGLE will host two additional days for a virtual Treatment Technology Symposium on December 9–10, 2026, focused specifically on advancements in PFAS treatment technologies. EGLE will select up to 20 abstracts related to:- Full-scale and pilot-scale implementation, peer-reviewed publications, and case studies with independent third-party and/or peer-reviewed data
- Demonstrations confirming treatment system performance, fluoride mass balances, evaluation of incomplete combustion/destruction products, etc.
- Treatment of water and aqueous solutions (drinking water, municipal wastewater, industrial wastewater, landfill leachate, contaminated groundwater, industrial stormwater)
- Treatment of soils and sediments
- Treatment for the destruction of PFAS in residuals or concentrated materials (AFFF)