The annual general meeting will be a perfect opportunity for members to give necessary and much welcome feedback on the year's achievements, and to offer input and suggestions on any upcoming plans and improvements for the IAQM.
The Burntwood Lecture, which takes place in November of each year, provides an opportunity for an eminent speaker to talk on a current, critical and often controversial environmental theme.
University of Oxford's Professor Steve Rayner will be our keynote speaker this year.
The Midlands IES Regional Group presents a seminar on waste and environmental management in the upstream oil and gas sector.
Registration and refreshments will be available from 13:30, with presentations commencing at 14:00. There will be a Q&A session at the end and the event which will end at 16:00.
Steve Filkin. Director at Filkin & Co. EHS Limited. will lead the seminar on this day. The seminar will include a keynote presentation reviewing the environmental management challenges presented by the principal operations undertaken in the upstream sector.
The North East IES Regional Group presents a seminar on Air Pollution and Personal Exposure Monitoring.
Speaker Dr Anil Namdeo will be talking about cyclists' exposure to air pollution and his experience of monitoring personal exposure in Mumbai, Jakarta, Tanzania and Newcastle.
The annual meeting of the Dispersion Modellers User Group will be taking place at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Covent Garden London. The meeting provides a great opportunity to hear from people at the forefront of dispersion modelling and really is a must attend for anyone involved in this field. It is of particular relevance to:
Speakers
With the announcement of the 14th round of licences at the end of July 2014, just over half of the UK is now potentially available for exploration. What does this mean for the management of our environmental resources, in particular water and air?
This seminar will uncover What we know about fracking and what we don’t know.
A joint event between the IAQM and Highways Agency (HA). The HA will present on refinements to DMRB, speed limits as mitigation measures, other mitigation measures, the role of Euro V1/6 vehicles in reducing emissions and the assessment of road schemes.
The preliminary running order is as follows:
The IAQM is pleased to invite you to our launch event for our new guidance on how odour should be considered in the planning process. The launch of the guidance represents the culmination of an 18 month process by IAQM members to prepare the document and consult with its membership on its content. We are holding an afternoon event with three speakers talking about very different aspects of how odours affect our environment as well as full details of the IAQM guidance itself. The programme for the event is:
2.00 Coffee & Networking
The Government issued its National Planning Guidance in March 2014. This includes advice on the assessment of air quality as well as dust from mineral sites; but as with all its guidance it lacks detail. Following the success of the IAQM guidance on the assessment of dust from demolition and construction, IAQM is investigating the need for similar guidance for mineral and waste management activities. The aim of this meeting is to discuss how dust impacts on amenity and ambient concentrations of particulate matter, and how these impacts should be assessed for planning applications.
This year’s AGM will feature Robert Vaughan and Sean O’Byrne of Defra, who will update the audience on the responses to the recent LAQM consultation and latest Departmental thinking on reform of LAQM. This will be followed by comments from IAQM and Jo Barnes, UWE.
Places are available free of charge to IAQM members, but you must inform us that you are coming as places are limited.
