Call for Artists
NOVEL BODIES
Scientific Art Posters for Society of Environmental Toxicity and Chemistry (SETAC), 46th Meeting, Portland, Oregon
Conference dates: 16–20 November 2025
Novel Bodies is organized as a parallel visual compendium to traditional scientific posters at the 46th Annual North America SETAC meeting. This year’s conference theme is The Essence of Science: Curiosity, Discovery and Solutions. Scientific abstracts and posters will be organized according to the session tracks (below). This exhibition will be curated by Minal T. Mistry, scientist, artist, and conference committee member from Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and Patricia Watts, founder and curator of ecoartspace.
Twenty visually captivating posters will be selected. Art posters will be displayed alongside those for accepted scientific abstracts. Artists are encouraged to submit a short abstract (250 words) describing their submission to aid the viewer. Viewers will be encouraged to share impressions from the dual poster format in a journal and will be shared with selected artists. In person conference dates: 16–20 November 2025.
Background
Society of Environmental Toxicity and Chemistry (SETAC) is the professional organization with the mission to advance environmental science and management. SETAC is dedicated to advancing environmental science and science-informed decision-making through collaboration, communication, education and leadership. It fulfills that purpose through events, publications, awards and education programs. The annual North America meeting draws a couple thousand attendees (may be affected this year due to federal changes).
Guidelines
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Posters should address a topic suitable to SETAC. See below in Session Tracks for focus areas.
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Posters should stand on their own, telling the research/topical story without a verbal narrative. Artists may submit an optional abstract (250 word max.) as a companion to the poster.
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Poster size: 18 x 24 inches or 24 x 36 inches
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Layout: Horizontal or vertical in either final print size
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Text should be readable from a minimum five feet away.
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Format: Submit printable PDF of artwork formatted for either of two sizes
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No AI generated submissions please.
For clarification please contact Minal Mistry (materials.deq at gmail.com)
Conference Session Tracks
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Environmental Toxicology and Stress Response: Explores environmental toxicology and response to stress (biological, physical and chemical) in various systems. Encompasses in silico and in vitro tools and methods involving adverse outcome pathway (AOP), mode of action, molecular toxicology, -omics, animal alternative testing, quantitative structural activity relationship (QSARs), high-throughput techniques and emerging approaches for statistical toxicology.
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Aquatic Toxicology, Ecology and Stress Response: Explores ecology, ecotoxicology and response to stress of all aquatic systems, including lentic and lotic freshwater systems, estuaries, coastal and marine environments.
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Wildlife Toxicology, Ecology and Stress Response: Covers all life forms of wildlife not strictly aquatic (amphibian, reptiles, birds, mammals and other organisms) living in areas from the deserts to the tropics and everything in between.
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Chemistry and Exposure Assessment: Comprises all aspects of chemical analysis, monitoring, fate and modeling, green chemistry and alternative chemical assessment.
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Environmental Risk Assessment: Bridges both aquatic and terrestrial environments, and all potential stressors (physical, chemical, biological and biotechnological) with human and ecological endpoints towards the goal of integrated holistic assessment such as “One Health.”
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Engineering, Remediation and Restoration: Addresses remediation and restoration of stressor-impacted air, water, and soil and sediment, including tools for predicting, monitoring and evaluation; technologies and methods for remediation and restoration; environmental engineering; green remediation; damage assessment; and strategies for management.
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Policy, Management and Communication: Includes all aspects of science application in policy or regulations and management (regulatory science), as well as science communication to stakeholders in diverse audiences.
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Systems Approaches: Uses cross- and trans-disciplinary approaches seeking to address complexity and large-scale issues by applying and integrating concepts such as life cycle assessment, sustainability, ecosystem services, impact assessment and environmental economics. Topics include regional and watershed-scale environmental management, climate change, resiliency and other related areas
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