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Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health

The Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health (SEGH) was established in 1971 to provide a forum for scientists to work together in understanding the interaction between the geochemical environment and the health of plants, animals, and humans. We recognise the importance of interdisciplinary research, our members represent expertise in a diverse range of scientific fields, such as biology, engineering, geology, hydrology, epidemiology, chemistry, medicine, nutrition, and toxicology. 

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Board Members

President

Prof Akinade Olatunji (University of Ibadan)

Past President

 Dr Michael Watts - British Geological Survey, UK

Secretary

Dr Gillian Gibson - Gibson Consulting and Training, UK

Membership Secretary/Treasurer

Mrs Anthea Brown -  Rt. British Geological Survey, UK

Webmaster

Dr Olivier Humphrey- British Geological Survey, UK

African Chairs

Odipo Osapo (Kenya)

Belinda Kaninga (Zambia)

Americas Chairs

Mark Button (Canada)
Ofelia Morton-Bermea (Mexico)

Bob Finkelman (USA) 

Clay Prater (USA)

Pauline Pornizzo (Uruguay)

Asia/Middle East Chairs

Taicheng An (China) 

Xia Huo (China)

Ahad Nazarpour (Iran)

Hasham Zaffari (Pakistan) 

Munir Zia (Pakistan)

European Chairs

Ariadne Argyraki (Greece)
Maurizio Barbieri (Italy)
Paula Marinho-Reis (Portugal)

Keith Torrance (UK)
Sanja Potgieter-Vermaak (UK)

Meet Our Board Members

Prof. Ariadne Argyraki

Dr. Ofelia Morton-Bermea

Prof. Ariadne Argyraki

Professor of Geochemistry in National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Her main research interests are on environmental geochemistry, focusing on the study of geochemical behaviour of potentially harmful elements in different environments.

Dr. Keith Torrance

Dr. Ofelia Morton-Bermea

Prof. Ariadne Argyraki

Keith Torrance is an environmental geochemist based at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. His research interests are contaminated sediments from urban canals, brownfield land assessment and the impact of mining on the environment. Previous to joining Strathclyde he worked as an environmental scientist in Alaska on remediation projects in the Arctic.

Dr. Ofelia Morton-Bermea

Dr. Ofelia Morton-Bermea

Dr. Ofelia Morton-Bermea

Researcher in the field of environmental geochemistry and responsible for the ICP-MS laboratory of the Institute of Geophysics at the  
National Autonomous University of Mexico

Dr. Olivier Humphrey

Dr. Olivier Humphrey

Dr. Ofelia Morton-Bermea

I am an Environmental Chemist at the British Geological Survey. My research involves investigating the interactions between environmental pollution, food security and human health.

Dr. Mark Button

Dr. Olivier Humphrey

Dr. Mark Button

I am currently based at the University of British Columbia in Kelowna where I coordinate the core facility for trace element analysis, the Fipke Laboratory for Trace Element Research (FiLTER). My research looks at the environmental geochemistry and toxicology of historic and emerging contaminants with a focus on the use of Plasma spectrometry for novel types of analyses.

Anthea Brown

Dr. Olivier Humphrey

Dr. Mark Button

SEGH Membership Secretary & Treasurer

I worked at the British Geological Survey from 1989 on the Geochemical Survey Programme in Wales; then I managed BGS Enquiries until retirement. I joined SEGH in 1990 and with my late husband, Malcolm, organised SEGH1994 conference at BGS, Keyworth and we were heavily involved in SEGH1997 along with Pa

SEGH Membership Secretary & Treasurer

I worked at the British Geological Survey from 1989 on the Geochemical Survey Programme in Wales; then I managed BGS Enquiries until retirement. I joined SEGH in 1990 and with my late husband, Malcolm, organised SEGH1994 conference at BGS, Keyworth and we were heavily involved in SEGH1997 along with Pat O’Connor at the Geological Survey of Ireland in Dublin. I have enjoyed many SEGH conferences since then especially Zambia in 2018.

Dr. Munir Zia

Dr. Maurizio Barbieri

Dr. Maurizio Barbieri

Dr Munir Zia, elected SEGH Board Member from Pakistan for the second time is affiliated as R&D Coordinator with Fauji Fertilizer Company Pvt Ltd., Pakistan since 2001. Dr Zia has also worked at University of South Australia; University of Adelaide, Australia; USDA-ARS; and BGS-UoN Centre for Environmental Geochemistry in different roles s

Dr Munir Zia, elected SEGH Board Member from Pakistan for the second time is affiliated as R&D Coordinator with Fauji Fertilizer Company Pvt Ltd., Pakistan since 2001. Dr Zia has also worked at University of South Australia; University of Adelaide, Australia; USDA-ARS; and BGS-UoN Centre for Environmental Geochemistry in different roles since 2009. Dr Zia also holds FAO (UN) Chair for Asian Soil Partnership - Pillar 2 for Asia"

Dr. Maurizio Barbieri

Dr. Maurizio Barbieri

Dr. Maurizio Barbieri

Associate Professor of Hydrogeochemistry and Environmental Geochemistry (2006-Present), at Dep. Earth Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy).

Environmental Advisor (Soil and Water Quality) for many international projects, I study the anthropogenic processes that have significantly influenced the geochemistry of water and soil qualit

Associate Professor of Hydrogeochemistry and Environmental Geochemistry (2006-Present), at Dep. Earth Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy).

Environmental Advisor (Soil and Water Quality) for many international projects, I study the anthropogenic processes that have significantly influenced the geochemistry of water and soil quality in many regions. 

Potentially toxic element (PTE) contaminations are considered too hazardous because of toxicity, persistence, bioaccumulative behaviour and the risk they pose to human health. Many areas all over the world are data-poor and have poor accessibility. Share these results improved our knowledge of the occurrence of trace elements in soil and in drinking water in all area where water resources play a fundamental role—because of their scarcity—and where the climate is harsh. 

Try to examine the human health risk assessment for the PTEs in drinking water is a challenger even for the European country.

Dr. Bob Finkelman

Dr. Maurizio Barbieri

Dr. Paula Marinho Reis

Robert (Bob) Finkelman is a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas and at the China University of Mining and Technology. He is a co-founder of the International Medical Geology Association and a founding member and past Chair of the GSA's Geology and Health Division.

Dr. Paula Marinho Reis

Dr. Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi

Dr. Paula Marinho Reis

 Paula Marinho Reis is Assistant Professor of Environmental Geology at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. Her main subjects of interest are environmental geochemistry and health, human exposure, health risk assessment, human biomonitoring, and urban geochemistry. Her latest research is on indoor dust and potential exposure to potentially toxic elements.

Dr. Michael Watts

Dr. Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi

Dr. Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi

Michael Watts is Head of Inorganic Geochemistry at the British Geological Survey and is an Associate Professor with the University of Nottingham through the joint Centre for Environmental Geochemistry. His research interests on geochemistry and ‘health’ interactions employs analytical chemistry for research on pollution pathways via ‘natu

Michael Watts is Head of Inorganic Geochemistry at the British Geological Survey and is an Associate Professor with the University of Nottingham through the joint Centre for Environmental Geochemistry. His research interests on geochemistry and ‘health’ interactions employs analytical chemistry for research on pollution pathways via ‘natural’ or anthropogenic geochemical sources and mineral nutrient dynamics in soil-crop-human/animal systems. Increasingly the research is multidisciplinary with greater emphasis towards challenges and partnerships in developing countries.

https://www.bgs.ac.uk/staff/profiles/4583.html

Dr. Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi

Dr. Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi

Dr. Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi

Dr. Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi received Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Zhejiang University, China. Currently he is working as Assistant Professor at Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University Islamabad. Dr. Hashmi has research interest to develop treatment technologies to control Environmental and Industrial Pollution; to understand

Dr. Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi received Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Zhejiang University, China. Currently he is working as Assistant Professor at Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University Islamabad. Dr. Hashmi has research interest to develop treatment technologies to control Environmental and Industrial Pollution; to understand toxicology mechanisms of PCBs and to develop novel methods for monitoring of environmental pollution. Dr. Hashmi is book series editor with Elsevier: Advances in Environmental Pollution Research and Springer: Emerging Contaminants and Associated Treatment Technologies. 2018 Mustafa Science and Technology Foundation Iran awarded KANS Prize (OIC Countries). Dr. Hashmi is Associate Editor with Arabian Journal of Geosciences, Environmental Geochemistry and Health. Dr. Hashmi published 12 Books with Springer and 2 book with Elsevier, 23 book chapters with Springer and 110 research articles with a cumulative impact factor of 450+ and h-index=30. Dr. Hashmi is Member of Pakistan Academy of Sciences and fellow of national and international societies. He has served as Consultant for Indus River Disaster Management Plan in WWF. 

Dr. Clay Prater

Dr. Sanja Potgieter-Vermaak

Dr. Sanja Potgieter-Vermaak

 I am an elemental ecologist with broad interests in examining fluxes of elements through biological systems, ranging from molecular up through biogeochemical scales. My work combines controlled experimentation with ecosystem-level observations to examine the effects of supplies of essential and trace elements (termed the ionome) on organ

 I am an elemental ecologist with broad interests in examining fluxes of elements through biological systems, ranging from molecular up through biogeochemical scales. My work combines controlled experimentation with ecosystem-level observations to examine the effects of supplies of essential and trace elements (termed the ionome) on organismal physiology and life-history, and to see how these responses, in turn, control the cycling of these elements through the biosphere. I am primarily a limnologist interested in connections between water and the land who bridges organismal and ecosystem-level studies using mass balance approaches. I have worked across riverine, pond, lake, and wetland ecosystems and am currently synthesizing work from my first postdoctoral position studying the effects of climate induced changes in ice sheet melt, sediment generation and wind-transport/deposition on lake geochemistry and biological responses in SW Greenland. In my current position, I am studying chemical “Rules of Life,” determining the effects of environmental elemental supplies on the ecology and evolution of a diverse range of aquatic organisms. I have over a decade of experience in measuring nutrient chemistry in aquatic ecosystems and specialize in generating and analyzing multi-elemental data in organisms from microbes up to vertebrates.

Dr. Sanja Potgieter-Vermaak

Dr. Sanja Potgieter-Vermaak

Dr. Sanja Potgieter-Vermaak

Sanja Potgieter-Vermaak is a Senior Lecturer in Analytical Chemistry at Manchester Metropolitan University in Manchester, UK. She heads the environmental change research group in the Ecology and Environmental Research Centre at MMU. Her research focus is on the health effects of air pollution (using various in-vitro techniques) and she ha

Sanja Potgieter-Vermaak is a Senior Lecturer in Analytical Chemistry at Manchester Metropolitan University in Manchester, UK. She heads the environmental change research group in the Ecology and Environmental Research Centre at MMU. Her research focus is on the health effects of air pollution (using various in-vitro techniques) and she has expertise in the monitoring and chemical characterisation of airborne particles for different geochemical origins, as well as indoor environments. The emphasis is specifically on the inhalable size fraction (using novel techniques e.g. InSEM-Raman) and source apportionment of transition metals. Dr. Potgieter-Vermaak published 91 papers in prestigious journals for e.g. STOTEN, Atmospheric Environment and Environment International. She has been the lead researcher in air pollution monitoring and characterisation projects in Belgium and produced several reports on the findings.

Paulina Pizzorno

Dr. Sanja Potgieter-Vermaak

Paulina Pizzorno

I am a Clinical Biochemist and Assistant Professor of Toxicology at the Faculty of Chemistry, at University of Republic (Udelar) and environmental toxicology research team member.  My main subjects of interest are human exposure and your biomonitoring, health risk assessment. I am currently a PhD student conducting a study on health risk 

I am a Clinical Biochemist and Assistant Professor of Toxicology at the Faculty of Chemistry, at University of Republic (Udelar) and environmental toxicology research team member.  My main subjects of interest are human exposure and your biomonitoring, health risk assessment. I am currently a PhD student conducting a study on health risk assessment from exposure to geogenic arsenic, exposure, and potential health risks from groundwater consumption with arsenic levels. 

Gillian Gibson

Dr. Akinade Olatunji

Paulina Pizzorno

Gillian is an Environmental Scientist working in the wider arena of impact assessment and sustainability, both locally in the UK, and internationally. She is a registered environmental auditor, as well as being a highly respected trainer. Gillian has run her own consultancy and training company for eighteen years, following thirty years w

Gillian is an Environmental Scientist working in the wider arena of impact assessment and sustainability, both locally in the UK, and internationally. She is a registered environmental auditor, as well as being a highly respected trainer. Gillian has run her own consultancy and training company for eighteen years, following thirty years work in the public and private sectors, as well as the education sector.

Dr. Akinade Olatunji

Dr. Akinade Olatunji

Dr. Akinade Olatunji

Dr. Akinade Shadrach OLATUNJI obtained a Bachelor of Science (Hons) from the University of Ilorin in Geology and Mineral Science in 1995, Master of Science in Mineral Exploration (Geochemistry Option) in 2000 and Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Geochemistry from the University of Ibadan in 2006.My research focuses on geochemical mapping o

Dr. Akinade Shadrach OLATUNJI obtained a Bachelor of Science (Hons) from the University of Ilorin in Geology and Mineral Science in 1995, Master of Science in Mineral Exploration (Geochemistry Option) in 2000 and Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Geochemistry from the University of Ibadan in 2006.My research focuses on geochemical mapping of the distribution of elemental constituents of environmental and geologic media such as rocks, soils, sediments, road dusts, particulate matter and vegetation in Nigerian cities and urban centres. This has led to the generation of baseline geochemical maps for these several urban centres in Nigeria. The generated maps have become a veritable tool for planning and development of mitigation procedures where contaminations and pollutions have been identified. In addition, an assessment of the suitability of the urban soils and sediments for urban agricultural and gardening is ongoing Dr. Olatunji is a fellow of the Nigerian Association of Hydrogeologists (NAH), where he is serving as the 2nd Vice President, a fellow of the Nigerian Mining and Geosciences Society (NMGS), where he is a member of Council and the Society’s current General Secretary. He is a registered Geoscientist by the Council of Mining Engineers and Geoscientists. He is currently the General Assembly Chair of the International Medical Geologists Association, Nigeria (IMGA-Nigeria) and a Counselor in the Executive Committee of the International Medical Geology Association. Akinade is currently the President for SEGH. 

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