EQSPAE – 2016

International Conference on Deriving Environmental Quality Standards for the Protection of Aquatic Ecosystems (EQSPAE – 2016)

This conference aims to bring nationally and internationally renowned experts in the field of scientific derivation of environmental quality benchmarks to Hong Kong where they will share their knowledge and expertise on the latest development in the field with our local and regional experts and environmental practitioners from government, academia and private sector.

Topics will be:

• Scientific methodologies for the derivation of short- and long-term water and sediment quality guidelines for ecosystem protection in mainland China and different parts of the world;
• Scientific derivation of site-specific water and sediment quality guidelines;
• Quality control and assurance on acquisition of eco-toxicity data for EQB development;
• Advance methods for setting microbial quality standards;
• Establishment of benchmarks for indicating ecosystem health status;
• Application and validation of water and sediment quality guidelines/ criteria/ standards;
• The relationship between EQB, environmental policy and legislation for water and sediment quality management; and
• Plan for international collaboration in data sharing and knowledge exchange in relation to the derivation and application of EQB.