On May 20-24, 2024, group members attended IAGLR’s 67th Annual Conference on Great Lakes Research in Windsor, Canada. Dr. Zheng Wang and Huifang Bi made the presentations entitled “Application of nanobubbles for the clean up of sand polluted by oil spills” and “Exploration of a bio-based coating strategy as an oil spill response countermeasure”, respectively. They also discussed the research and collaboration with other conference participants.