Awards and Post-Event Information
Thank you for attending the 2023 RemPlex Global Summit on Environmental Remediation held at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) on November 13–17, 2023. This page includes the best presentation and poster awards, and the most up-to-date post-event information.
Best Presentation Awards
![RemPlex Technical Session](/sites/default/files/styles/iconographic/public/media/image/EED_2409_WEB_TechSess1.jpg?itok=vcJXk-qh)
Hilary Emerson
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Session 1: Environmental Management and Stewardship Innovations
“Phosphate Amendments for Treatment of U and Tc-99 in the Hanford Site’s Central Plateau”
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Xuehang Song
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Session 2: Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning-Empowered Digitization of Environmental Systems
“Leveraging a Data-Driven Approach for Optimizing Pump-and-Treat Well Network Operations”
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Léa Lévy
Lund University
Session 3: Innovative Characterization and Monitoring Technologies and Methodologies
“Building Reliable Groundwater Transport Models at Contaminated Sites Using Cross-Borehole Electrical Monitoring”
![RemPlex Technical Session Four](/sites/default/files/styles/iconographic/public/media/image/EED_2409_WEB_TechSess4.jpg?itok=CVrwjNEy)
Callum Robinson
The University of Manchester
Session 4: Emerging Remediation Technologies
“In Situ Biomineralisation for Sellafield Groundwater Radionuclide Remediation”
![RemPlex Technical Session Five](/sites/default/files/styles/iconographic/public/media/image/EED_2409_WEB_TechSess5.jpg?itok=IeI6yLFH)
Tollef Winslow
Central Plateau Cleanup Company
Session 5: Environmental Data Management, Analysis, and Visualization
“Geoframework Models: A Force Multiplier”
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Chandra Tummala
Wayne State University
Session 6: Critical Minerals (including Rare Earth Elements): the Promise, Challenge, and Environmental Risk
“Recovering Critical Minerals from the Phosphate Fertilizers Could Reduce their Accumulated Concentration Levels in the Agricultural Soils”
![RemPlex Technical Session Seven](/sites/default/files/styles/iconographic/public/media/image/EED_2409_WEB_TechSess7.jpg?itok=Vf4VbcXn)
Federica Panzarella
KU Leuven and Belgian Nuclear Research Centre – SCK CEN
Session 7: Ensuring Sustainability and Resiliency of Remediation Projects
“Site Remediation and Social Sustainability: A Case Study”
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Fred Zhang
INTERA Inc.
Session 8: Multiscale Modeling in Porous Media: Theory to Applications
“Modeling Evapotranspiration and Soil-Moisture Flow of a Modified RCRA Subtitle C Surface Barrier”
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Luke Placzek
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Session 9: Autonomous Measurements and Remote Sensing Across Scales
“Leveraging Aerial Robotics for Environmental Discovery”
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Rahima Tufail
Wayne State University
Poster Session
“Functionality of Coal Fly Ash in Mortars After Rare Earth Element Recovery”
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Missed the Event?
Summit video recordings are available on our YouTube playlist and can be found linked throughout the site—as are the presentation PDFs—for the opening sessions, case studies, lunch programs, and technical sessions.
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