As part of our Land Condition Community we are launching our brand new Land Condition Early Careers Network - a forum designed to support those joining the sector by providing a platform to gain professional development, address skills gaps and help shape the future of the land condition sector.
On the 21st January we will be holding our first meetup.
With a new British Standard ‘Taking soil samples for the determination of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) — Specification’ scheduled for publication in 2019, we are hosting an afternoon discussion meeting in collaboration with BSSS on the 18th February, to discuss VOCs in soil in the context of contaminated land investigation and remediation.
The room for this event has changed.
With the world's oceans under increasing pressure from acidification, warming, habitat destruction, pollution and unsustainable fishing practices, the topic of marine protection has been a prominent environmental focus in 2018. Through support of the World Environment Day #BeatPlasticPollution campaign, widespread popularity for BBC documentary, Blue Planet II, and emerging new policy on sustainable fisheries, awareness and attention to marine issues is rapidly increasing.
Hosted by the Royal Geographical Society, this practical, activity-based workshop will provide participants with the opportunity to share ideas and experiences with GEES colleagues from across the UK, including:
The CEnv in a Day Workshop is for professionals who meet the criteria for Chartership. The aim of the day is to put all participants through the full application process in one day.
Until recently, identifying and analysing for TPH, tars etc. has relied on laboratory GCs. However, measuring fluorescence across the UV and visible range can, in three minutes, identify and analyse petroleum or coal tar derived hydrocarbon contamination of liquids and solids immediately on site or in a laboratory. This method provides quantitative values for TPH, DRO, GRO as well as total BTEX, total PAHs and Benzo(a)pyrene in soil, groundwater and waste streams.
Agricultural areas have expanded dramatically in the tropics, providing food for the world's population, but posing a severe threat to natural habitats and tropical biodiversity. A crop which has attracted particularly negative press and been associated with high levels of deforestation is oil palm.
The Scottish Contaminated Land Forum hosts quarterly forum meetings to provide a platform to discuss sectoral developments and emerging issues within the land condition sector.
We are collaborating with the SCLF and jointly hosting their next meeting on the 6th November.
The SCLF promote the effective and sustainable re-use of Contaminated Land in Scotland, at the November event we will hear from;
The CEnv in a Day Workshop is for professionals who meet the criteria for Chartership. The aim of the day is to put all participants through the full application process in one day.
In a modern capitalist society, is something without an ascribed monetary value considered worthless?
Phrases such as ‘natural capital’ and ‘ecosystem services’ are increasingly used within the environmental sector as part of a sustained attempt to assign monetary values to nature's services. Considering the practical and ethical dilemmas around this, what conceptual, methodological and moral challenges are there in pricing nature?
