Author Resources

Be a part of this innovative conference.  Share your knowledge, advance the industry, and make connections. 

Call for Abstracts available now! Due by December 9. 

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We’re looking for the latest and greatest research, ideas, and solutions in the environmental industry on topics including, but not limited to:

• 2020 Mini Symposium—Embracing Innovation (Submissions on any subtopic may be included in a Mini Symposium session.)
• Hot Topics—Coastal Adaptation, Wildfires, Carbon Tax/Markets, Clean Technology, Zero Waste, Community-Focused Emission Reductions
• Air Emissions - Stationary/Mobile Sources, Inventory, Modeling, Measurements, Monitoring, Control Technologies
• Air Quality, Visibility, Data QA/QC
• Bioenergy, Biofuels, Biogas, Landfills
• Brownfield Redevelopment 
• Climate Change - Science, Policy, Regulation, Impacts, Mitigation & Adaptation
• Environmental Program Administration—Policy, Regulation & Implementation, Permitting, Public Participation, Odor Issues, EPA Priorities
• Emerging contaminants of concern
• Health, Safety and Environmental Effects and Exposure 
• Oil & Gas, Power Generation, Heavy Industry and General Manufacturing
• Regulatory and Legal Issues
• Sustainability, Resource Conservation, Green Infrastructure
• Transportation and Land Use
• Indoor Air, Vapor Intrusion
• Waste Treatment, Processing & Waste-to-Energy, Landfills, Site Remediation

1. Abstracts for individual platform or poster presentations, with later submittal of a full manuscript or extended abstract that will receive a technical review.
2. Abstracts for individual platform or poster presentations, with later submittal of a PowerPoint presentation that will receive only a content review.
3. Abstracts for panel proposals submitted by the panel chair, which will receive a content review, with a later submittal of a panel synopsis and a list of panelists.

• Full Manuscript                                             •   Panel Session 
• Extended Abstract                                        •   Platform or Poster with Technical Review 
• Slide Presentation Only                               •   Platform or Poster with Content Review 
• Outline Only

Why you should present
A&WMA’s Annual Conference is recognized as the premier international conference of its kind providing the latest information on air, environmental management and risk, climate change, resource conservation and waste issues. The conference typically has about 300 platform and poster presentations, 35+ panel sessions, and up to 10 concurrent sessions.

This year’s venue for the conference is San Francisco, California, which is the ideal place for scientists, practitioners, regulators and companies to gather from around the world to share new ideas and develop solutions to current and emerging environmental issues. California is a global leader in environmental and energy technologies, at the forefront of policies addressing climate change.  This conference will bring leading environmental experts and practitioners to spark new environmental initiatives embracing innovation and the vision to address and develop new approaches and effective solutions to addressing climate change, sustainability, emerging contaminants of concern and other environmental issues while accommodating growth.