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All Board Positions are open to be filled and you have a chance to self-nominate or nominate others; and to vote for people to occupy the positions to be filled. Up to six (6) positions for each Region (Africa, America, Asia/Pacific, Europe) are open to be filled.
The SEGH Board has a global regional representation which has helped to maintain an all-inclusive society. It intends to continue encouraging greater global diversity and inclusion.
University of Eldoret, Kenya
Membership: 6 years
Way in which the SEGH can improve
Diversify membership to include different professions including the medical, agriculture, wildlife, and veterinary professions. I intend to introduce SEGH to the societies where I belong through physical meetings and online communications. Regional meetings - I intend to mobilize resources to hold short regional meetings of members, especially those drawn from the early career researcher groups, to share research findings and training.
Plan for growing SEGH in your Region
Maintain active communications with members of SEGH from my region. We will continue to communicate through social online groups. I will encourage the members, especially the ECR to write blogs on topical subjects. At least once in a year we will hold a regional meeting to share scientific research outcomes and train where necessary.
Tech. & Voc. Training Inst. (TVET), Kenya; Rhodes Univ., South Africa
Membership: <1 year
Way in which the SEGH can improve
SEGH primarily focuses on environmental geochemistry and health. However, this sidelines the health of the aquatic environment and its resources such as fish despite the fact that anthropogenic activities such as gold mining have a huge implication on the aquatic environment. I intend to bridge this gap through a multidisciplinary approach by creating a linkage between environmental health and aquatic ecosystem health for sustainable resource utilization.
Plan for growing SEGH in your Region
I intend to campaign for membership at Rhodes University by students and staff in order for them to enjoy access to publications in high-end journals. Additionally, I am a member of the African Women In Science (AWIS) fellowship program with the African Centre for Aquatic Research and Education (ACARE) which aims to build capacity and offer mentorship opportunities to African women scientists. I will leverage this to market SEGH not only regionally, but also on a global scale.
University of Eldoret, Kenya
Membership: <1 year
Way in which the SEGH can improve
Increased collaborations between African universities and SEGH will increase its visibility. My role will be to solicit partnerships from the majority of Kenyan universities and research institutions with Environmental Geochemistry and Health-related projects or courses. Increase the percentage of African scholars who publish in the Journal of the Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health. Each African nation that is a member of SEGH should have a local committee that may assist in the management of SEGH activities. Have online short course on the objectives of SEGH and the activities that are underway.
Plan for growing SEGH in your Region
I plan on attending annual universities conferences in Kenya and distributing flyers about SEGH and the advantages of joining or requesting a chance to speak at these conferences. Constitute a local SEGH committee whose primary duty is to drive the SEGH agenda. Share the conference posters through the networks I've developed through conference planning and publication.
University of Kabianga, Kenya
Membership: 3 years
Way in which the SEGH can improve
SEGH has diverse membership, from various field of expertise say geology, medicine etc. An inventory should be clearly created per field to enable identification, utilisation and knowing gaps for strengthening per expertise.
Plan for growing SEGH in your Region
Increasing visibility of the society by intensifying sharing events, trainings and webinars in students, lecturers and other forums locally, regionally and internationally.
University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Membership: 2 years
Way in which the SEGH can improve
I believe SEGH can improve by having a wider and an all inclusive membership across the various regions of the world. By doing so, the society becomes more relevant and known, with a robust global impact.
Plan for growing SEGH in your Region
Being a Faculty member in the Geoscience Department of a University affords me the opportunity to meet and interact with upcoming youths/geochemists. I hope to be introducing and grooming these early careers into the membership of the society, believing that as they grow and become established in their professional career, then the society keeps expanding and having greater global relevance.
University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Membership: >6 years
Way in which the SEGH can improve
I will work at getting in more African researchers from the medical field and other relevant fields into the SEGH fold.
Plan for growing SEGH in your Region
I intend to do a one to one introduction of SEGH to relevant members. I will work at encouraging members that are not financial ones to pay up by telling them the benefits. I intend to invite colleagues for the forth coming conference. This helps and encourages them to be financial members.
Zambia Agriculture Research Institute
Membership: 4 years
Way in which the SEGH can improve
I feel that SEGH has not been visible enough to arouse interest among potential members in Southern Africa.
Plan for growing SEGH in your Region
I would like to help build the membership of SEGH in Southern Africa. I’ll aim to create awareness of SEGH through talks and local networking events.
Oklahoma State University, USA
Membership: 3 years
Way in which the SEGH can improve
I think that the SEGH leadership is doing a fine job. Now that we’re out of co-vid and having in-person meetings again, I look forward to growing our membership and continuing the strong standing of the society journal. I will contribute to SEGH by growing membership in the Americas.
Plan for growing SEGH in your Region
I’m working to start a collaborative network among SEGH researchers from Canada to South America. We are currently running a seminar series and planning a student research SEGH-live event to be held this year. We could really use some active new board members willing to put in the work with Bob leaving this year, so this will also be a focus for us.
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Membership: 8 years
Way in which the SEGH can improve
In October 2022 the SEGH-Americas board members started an initiative with a monthly seminar series/discussion group meeting, where we introduce like-minded local researchers and their students the academic contributions of regional researchers as well as our own unique research programs. This should be sustained.
Plan for growing SEGH in your Region
This initiative is intended to contribute to increasing the visibility and membership of SEGH in our region, in addition to contributing to establishing academic relationships between North and Latin America
Guangdong University of Technology, China
Membership: 10 years
Way in which the SEGH can improve
My research area focus on Environmental Geochemistry and health. And I am famous scientist in this area of China and it is easy to promote the scientists to raise the profile of our Soceity in Asia.
Plan for growing SEGH in your Region
Every year, I will be invited to attend more than 20 and more local and international conferences, so we can broaden our Soceity in these conferences. And also, I will invite our SEGH conference and Host our Soceity conference again back to China although I hold a great and successful SEGH conference of about 600 people at Guangzhou city, China, in 2017.
COMSATS Univ., Islamabad, Pakistan
Membership: 2 years
Way in which the SEGH can improve
E-waste pollution is a hot issues in Asia and all over the world. I think SEGH can address these e-waste issues through his platform. I have expertise regarding e-waste treatment technologies such as published papers and completed research projects. So my expertise could be useful for the training of researcher to manage e-waste.
Plan for growing SEGH in your Region
Asia has a unique geographic location in terms of climatic and biodiversity conditions. Due to high population and extensive industrial activities, this continent is facing severe environmental stresses on air, soil, sediments and water resources at local as well as regional scale. I intend to organize different webinar of Asia environmental issues by engaging different scientists. This will increase the visibility and membership of SEGH in Asia.
University of Queensland, Australia
Membership: 2 years
Way in which the SEGH can improve
In my opinion, SEGH must have its representation across Asia and Pacific where we should attract more students, Early Career Researchers, and educators to be member of SEGH. I can address well the role of SEGH activities being conducted across the globe and benefits of its membership. This can be done through signifying the role of SEGH and its collaboration for various issues while organising live events and writing strategy documents. More recently, I have included SEGH as a potential collaborator across the globe including Asia and Pacific.
Plan for growing SEGH in your Region
I have strong linkages with interdisciplinary team of scientists, researchers, academicians, and farmers in Australia and Asian countries. Such linkages could be used for strengthening SEGH activities. The board members of SEGH represent expertise in a diverse range of scientific fields and building professional networking to achieve Natural Resource Management related targets (outlined in the Sustainable Development Goals) has been the driving force to join SEGH. Linking activities of SEGH with other forums will reinforce the implementation of different frameworks, in achieving common goals of the scientific community.
National & Kapodestrian Univ. of Athens
Membership: >15 years
Way in which the SEGH can improve
Continuous work at supporting ECRs. Active promotion of SEGH within universities and the public domain.
Plan for growing SEGH in your Region
The presence of the next conference in Athens will be a considerable profile raising activity. I intend to use this to further the visibility of the Society among colleagues and more widely.
Sapienza University de Roma, Italy
Membership: 3 years
Way in which the SEGH can improve
With the SEGH it’s possible to improve a network to disseminate scientific knowledge and share research findings, facilitate the exchange of best practices and successful experiences in reducing environmental problems.
Plan for growing SEGH in your Region
The successful future of the Society will be expanding the size and scope of activities offered within applied geosciences.
Manchester Metropolitan University
Membership: 11 years
Way in which the SEGH can improve
The SEGH can improve in terms of marketing itself at academic institutions, especially in the UK and in Africa. This needs to be a collaborative but also well-organised effort by a small group within the board. However, that will require finances to facilitate visits and time to create promotional material.
Plan for growing SEGH in your Region
As indicated above, the SEGH needs to brand itself as one of the few organisation where multi-disciplinary research (combining environmental issues with health) is the core drive. This is often an area that is overlooked by different funding bodies. Greater presence and prestige of this group could be a means to obtain more funding opportunities.
British Geological Survey, UK
Membership: 7 years
Way in which the SEGH can improve
The role of the Web Master is key to ensuring that the society has a functioning website that can meet the needs of the society. Throughout my time as the Web Master, I have contributed to the continuous improvement of the website and other digital platforms. I have contributed to the improved media options available on the website (recorded videos, live Zooms and webinars) and I am keen to continue this work in the role.
Plan for growing SEGH in your Region
I believe we can expand our social media engagement through increased use. The increased online visibility of the society will impact all regions and should improve the societies engagement with early career researchers and those who actively use social media.
Geological Survey of Slovenia
Membership: 4 years
Way in which the SEGH can improve
I believe that the SEGH can increase its presence and promotion in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. SEGH can also improve in recruiting members from these areas. I could contribute to these improvements because I am ideally placed geographically for representation of SEGH in these parts of Europe and I could use the numerous connections that Geological Survey of Slovenia has established with research institutions and universities in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, especially in the Balkan region.
Plan for growing SEGH in your Region
My first goal will be to increase membership of Slovenian researchers in the SEGH which can be achieved by short presentations of SEGH at various events, such as national conferences and lectures for students. The growth of visibility and membership of SEGH in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe could be achieved by promoting SEGH through already established personal and company’s connections with researchers from various research institutes and universities in these areas. Later, when this basic approach will be implemented, some smaller events (on-line or in person) may be organised. Contributing some content to the SEGH website will also help to achieve these goals.
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