Dates: 2-4 September 2025
Location: Bern, Switzerland
Venue: UniS building, University of Bern
Hybrid meeting (in-person and virtual)
SCOPE OF CONTASED2025
Sediments are sources and sinks of contaminants and play an essential role in mediating pollutants across compartments of ecosystems. Following ContaSed 2021, ContaSed2025 will focus on
natural and anthopogenic contaminants, primarily on emerging and already regulated organic pollutants, metallorganics, heavy metals, microplastics and algae toxins. A Session is dedicated to risk
assessment, remediation and policy. We invite contributions with empirical or modelling studies to the following sessions:
• Session 1: Analytical procedures and methods for assessing sediment contamination
• Session 2: From source to sink: transport and deposition of contaminants
• Session 3: Assessing risks of contaminants in sediments: methodologies, ecotoxicological case studies, and risk succession.
• Session 4: Fate of contaminants in depositional settings
• Session 5: Remediation, legal frameworks and polic
