{"id":16302,"date":"2021-06-29T10:59:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T14:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/?p=16302"},"modified":"2021-12-01T15:59:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T20:59:03","slug":"flouros-2021-register-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/flouros-2021-register-now\/","title":{"rendered":"FLUOROS 2021: Register Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/fluoros\/registration\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-16303 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/fluoros-global-2021_social_dark.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/fluoros-global-2021_social_dark.jpg 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/fluoros-global-2021_social_dark-133x133.jpg 133w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/fluoros-global-2021_social_dark-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/fluoros-global-2021_social_dark-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/fluoros-global-2021_social_dark-364x364.jpg 364w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>FLUOROS 2021 \u2013 Global Community Coming Together to Problem-Solve PFAS<\/p>\n<p>Addressing PFAS isn\u2019t easy, but it\u2019s necessary \u2013 and worthy of global village problem-solving. That\u2019s the positive and informed approach of leaders of the University of Rhode Island (URI) STEEP (Sources, Transport, Exposure, &#038; Effects of PFAS) Superfund Research Program (SRP), as they prepare for FLOUROS 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCooperative efforts are critical to our future as a global community, and FLUOROS Global 2021 is an opportunity for us all to join together to address the PFAS challenge,\u201d says URI Coastal Institute Director Judith Swift, a director of STEEP, a multi-organization effort that includes Harvard\u2019s T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Silent Spring Institute. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>PFAS, \u201csilent\u201d and dangerous chemicals often present in common household goods, industrial settings, and military installations, pose threats to people and the environmental. FLUOROS Global 2021 is a prime opportunity to engage in learning about protecting drinking water and human and natural environments from PFAS \u2013 especially when harm is compounded by other global health issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA major concern is the insidious threat of PFAS exposure to the immune system,\u201d states Philippe Grandjean, co-lead of the STEEP SRP and a member of the Harvard team.&nbsp; \u201cIn a time with widespread COVID-19 infections, a fully functional immune system is crucial.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And everyone can play a role in helping lessen the effects of PFAS in family, work, and community life; that\u2019s why FLOUROS Global 2021, first offered in 2005, offers a multitude of venues (in-person and virtual), dialogues, and events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s critical that we come together to disseminate and understand the biomedical and environmental research advances we\u2019re making on the PFAS front, so we can ultimately minimize both human exposure and environmental effects,\u201d says URI Professor of Chemical Oceanography Rainer Lohmann, a lead STEEP researcher.<\/p>\n<p>FLUOROS Global 2021 \u2013 International Perspectives on PFAS Science\u201d takes place October 3-7, 2021, both in-person at the WaterFire Fine Arts Center (Providence, RI) and virtually on-line. <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/fluoros-global-2021-worldwide-gathering-of-pfas-community-examined-science-solutions-for-forever-chemicals\/\">More Information<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FLUOROS 2021 \u2013 Global Community Coming Together to Problem-Solve PFAS Addressing PFAS isn\u2019t easy, but it\u2019s necessary \u2013 and worthy of global village problem-solving. That\u2019s the positive and informed approach of leaders of the University of Rhode Island (URI) STEEP (Sources, Transport, Exposure, &#038; Effects of PFAS) Superfund Research Program (SRP), as they prepare for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16448,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16302\/revisions\/16448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}