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SETAC North America is allowing late abstracts for the 31st Annual Meeting in Portland, OR.  http://portland.setac.org/

Abstracts submitted prior to the June 4th deadline will get first preference in selection of platforms but you now have until June 14th 2010 at 7AM CDT to submit your late abstract.

SETAC understands the hard work and long hours scientists are putting in to help clean-up and study this catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. This addition is to allow workers on the oil spill effort in the Gulf of Mexico additional time to submit an abstract and continue to enhance the high quality of science we all expect at a SETAC annual meeting.

SETAC thanks you for your efforts and looks forward to seeing you at the meeting in Portland, OR.

Don’t miss submitting your abstract by June 4 (Friday this week!) for the SETAC North America 31st Annual Meeting from 7-11 November 2010 in Portland Oregon.

Due to popular demand and unfortunate scheduling relative to a long US holiday weekend, the deadline for LCA X abstracts has been extended from Tuesday 1 June to Friday 4 June.

The conference website is at: http://lcacenter.org/LCAX/

There are some really excellent special session proposals in process. Many of them are aimed at the policy theme of the conference, but others will address emerging issues such as quality validation, carbon footprinting and EPDs.

The rest of the conference will be determined by your abstracts. As always, your new ideas for research and implementation is what make this an exciting conference. Please submit abstracts through the account system: http://iere.org/account

Not a member, visit the Institute for Environmental Research and Education:http://www.iere.org/

LCA X will be held in Portland, Oregon, from 2 to 4 November 2010.  The SETAC North America Conference will be in Portland the following week.  The ACLCA is planning bridging events between the two conferences. Watch our website for details.

 The conference web site is at: http://lcacenter.org/LCAX/

Please direct questions and comments to: LCAX “at” LCAcenter.org

SETAC North America 31st Annual Meeting, 7-11 November 2010

Call for Abstracts Now Open!

The theme for the SETAC North America 31st Annual Meeting is: Bridging Science with Communities. You can submit your abstract into the appropriate session online at http://portland.setac.org  All submissions must be made electronically. The deadline to submit abstracts is Friday, 4 June 2010. We’ve had a record number of session submissions and are expecting great attendance at this meeting!

The American Center for Life Cycle Assessment is seeking regular abstracts and special session proposals for the the Life Cycle Assessment X Conference in Portland (2-4 November 2010).  The theme this year is “Bridging Science, Policy, and the Public” and the conference is open to all areas of Life Cycle thinking.

Regular abstracts are due by June 1st.  If you would like to organize a special session, note that the pre-proposal deadline has been extended to May 7th. 

The general conference website can be found here: http://lcacenter.org/LCAX

Guidance on abstract preparation is available here:

http://lcacenter.org/LCAX/abstract-how-to.pdf

Information on special sessions is available here:

http://lcacenter.org/LCAX/special-session-how-to.pdf

As you plan your conference calendar for 2010, take note that this year’s major North American LCA conferences are being held in Portland, Oregon.  From November 2nd to November 11th it will be nothing but LCA. 

The American Center for LCA is holding thier conference the first week of November – http://www.lcacenter.org/ and the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemstry (SETAC) the original birthplace of LCA, is having its conference the week after - http://portland.setac.org/. 

Hot topics for this year include:

• Expansion of publicly available data sets
• LCA applications to carbon footprinting
• LCA use in the building and construction industry and the retail sectors
• Water and Land use impact assessment method development
• Environmental Product Declarations (Type III labeling programs)

If the growing interest in LCA despite the economic downturn is any indication things to come, 2010 looks to be another strong year for the field of quantitative systems based assessment methodologies, such as LCA.  If you are interested in certification programs that are available to LCA professionals, we recommend the ACLCA’s Certified Professional program taking place on November 1st, 2010, where else? In Portland: http://www.lcacenter.org/certification.html