ARCHE Consulting makes waves at SETAC Europe in Seville

SETAC Europe 34th Annual Meeting

ARCHE Consulting looks back at a succesful edition of SETAC Europe 34th Annual Meeting. This year, the conference took place from May 5th till 9th in the city of Seville, located in the south of Spain.

A total of ten members from the ARCHE Consulting team attended the conference. Below, there is an overview of the conference contributions at SETAC Seville. Feel free to reach out to the respective team members concerning any questions regarding the research.

Read the full scientific program on the SETAC Europe website

An overview of our contributions:

Monday, May 6th - 2024

Poster presentation
Exhibition Hall

Evaluating the sensitivity of environmental threshold derivation of Cu in Europe to the use of geographically relevant species

Charlotte Nys, Karel Vlaeminck, Patrick Van Sprang, Steve Lofts, Stijn Baken, Karel De Schamphelaere

Poster presentation
Exhibition Hall

EU-wide exposure assessment of metals in municipal sewage treatment plants

Maxime Eliat, Nora Ferencz, Seth Schittekatte, Marnix Vangheluwe, Hugo Waeterschoot

Poster presentation
Exhibition Hall

Regional exposure assessment of metals in the aquatic freshwater environment – sediment compartment

Nora Ferencz, Marnix Vangheluwe, Dagobert Heijerick, Violaine Verougstraete, Hugo Waeterschoot

Poster presentation
Exhibition Hall

Introducing the geographical relevancy of species to set environmental thresholds of Pb for aquatic environments in Europe

Patrick Van Sprang, Charlotte Nys, Jasim Chowdhury

Poster presentation
Exhibition Hall

A holistic modelling approach to predict silver (Ag) toxicity on rainbow trout populations

Karel Vlaeminck, Charlotte Nys, Katrien Arijs, Jelle Mertens, Karel De Schamphelaere

Poster presentation
Exhibition Hall

Speciation and ecotoxicitiy of the soluble fraction of tellurium and tellurium dioxide

Dagobert Heijerick, Kerstin Heitmann

Platform presentation
Bruselas - 11:55

Concentration addition or independent action: which model better predicts aquatic toxicity of environmentally realistic metal mixtures?

Maria Laura De Donno, Franz Marius Schmitt, Charlotte Nys, Karel Viaene, Hugo Waeterschoot, Karel De Schamphelaere

Platform presentation
Bruselas - 12:10

Investigating population versus individual sensitivity of Lymnaea stagnalis to nickel (Ni)

Kristi Weighman, Karel Viaene, Karel De Schamphelaere

Tuesday, May 7th - 2024

Poster corner
Exhibition Hall

Mapping PFAS distribution in Flanders, Belgium - Results of an extensive aquatic monitoring campaign

Nathalie Briels, Karel Vlaeminck, Karel Viaene, Maarten De Jonge, Marnix Vangheluwe, Frederik Verdonck

Wednesday, May 8th - 2024

Poster corner
Exhibition Hall

Metal mixture effects in the aquatic environment: Evaluating the potential for refinement of the default Mixture Allocation Factor (MAF) based on experimental data 

Charlotte Nys, Laura DeDonno, Marius Schmidtt, Karel Viaene, Koen Oorts, Marnix Vangheluwe, Hugo Waeterschoot, Violaine Verougstraete, Karel De Schamphelaere

Poster presentation
Exhibition Hall

A tiered toolbox to assess the impact of metal emissions on biodiversity integrating mixture risk calculations, biomonitoring and metabarcoding – Pilot study with a Belgian brook

Karel P.J. Viaene, Charlotte Nys, Nathalie Briels, Marnix Vangheluwe, Hugo Waeterschoot, Karel De Schamphelaere

Poster presentation
Exhibition Hall

The accuracy of the Concentration Addition and Independent action model to predict the toxicity of complex metal-metal mixtures to Daphnia magna – Is IA the better model? 

Franz Marius Schmitt, Karel Viaene, Maria Laura De Donno, Charlotte Nys, Koen Oorts, Marnix Vangheluwe, Violaine Verougstraete, Hugo Waeterschoot, Karel De Schamphelaere

Poster presentation
Exhibition Hall

MEED: Progress with the Metals Environmental Exposure Data collection program to anticipate the challenges of the EU Zero Pollution Ambition Policy and the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability

Hugo Waeterschoot, Marnix Vangheluwe, Violaine Verougstraete

Poster presentation
Exhibition Hall

Environmental classification of ferromolybdenum – Impact of copper impurity levels

Dagobert Heijerick, Sandra Carey

Poster presentation
Exhibition Hall

Ecological modelling in support of sediment remediation: impact of nature-based remediation on Hyalella azteca populations

Karel Vlaeminck, Karel Viaene, Jaap Postma, Marnix Vangheluwe

Thursday, May 9th - 2024

Poster presentation
Exhibition Hall

Common approach for setting environmental self-classifications for metals and metal compounds

Dagobert Heijerick, Hugo Waeterschoot, Stijn Baken, Jelle Mertens

Platform presentation
Paris - 12:25

Adaptation of metals risk assessments to consider climate change

Eric Van Genderen, Ellie Middleton, Jenny Stauber, Kevin Farley, Inna Sokolova, Patrick Van Sprang, Patricio Rodriguez, David Boyle, Jelle Mertens, Emily Garman, Stijn Baken, Yamini Gopalapillai, Erin Smith, Adam Ryan, Chris Cooper, Hugo Waeterschoot, Josephine Robertson, Claudine Albersammer