Welcome to the new Waste Management (WM) Symposia "Knowledge Base". It complements the WM Proceedings link which shares our conference archives since we began with WM1974. Beginning with WM2003, WM provided search capabilities for the conference presentations and have expanded these search features. The searches, however, are limited to data from each WM conference year.
This new Knowledge Base link will let you easily search across multiple years of conference data, currently containing over 8,000 papers and presentations. The site includes abstracts, papers and presentations from all conferences back to WM2014. This site also includes an advance Artificial Intelligence (AI) inquiry option which lets you type in your questions.
The new Knowledge Base has two main tabs:
Conferences search: This screen lists all the conferences since WM2014. Click on the year link to view, filter and search authors and papers for each individual conference you have chosen. Besides a Global Search it also features an Advanced Search option that allows you to search across all conferences since WM2014 or select individual conferences when searching. You can search on multiple keywords, filter by Session Titles and/or WM Conference Tracks.
AI Search: The AI Search allows you to ask a question, rather than typing in a keyword. It also provides an AI output. Enter your question as a sentence e.g. "What is the status of the Fukushima site?"
As a Technical Program Registrant to the WM2025 Conference, you have free access in your profile to the Knowledge Base link for one year (expires May 31, 2026).
This Knowledge Base option is still in beta testing. If you have any suggestions, please contact Gary Benda, WM PAC Chair at gbenda@wmsym.org or send an anonymous comment to this Comments Form.