Managing Global Resources for a Secure Future

Title: Global Impacts of Environmental Contamination Poster (includes student competition)

Session Description: This is a joint symposium organized with the Committee ofSoils and Environmental Quality, Chinese Soil ScienceSociety. The symposium focuses on linkages betweenenvironmental contamination and soil health. The release ofcontaminants, including heavy metals, persistent organiccontaminants, pesticides, nanoparticles, chemicals ofemerging concern, antibiotic resistance genes, agriculturalbyproducts, and soil amendments, to the environment is asource of water and soil contamination, and serves as apathway for chronic exposure to the surrounding biota. Manyof these contaminants have been implicated or are suspectedto degrade soil health and agricultural product quality.