Upcoming Events

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29 November- 1 December 2022

9 November 2022

We would like to invite you to the Deep Digital Earth (DDE) Forum organized by UNESCO, IUGS and DDE, to be convened on November 9th, 2022  in Room II, UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. 

The Forum is intended to give a comprehensive, synthetic overview of achievements of the DDE over three years as the first IUGS Recognized Big Science Program and a pilot project on Open Science, and to promote globalization and digitization of scientific research.

2nd-6th July 2023

Welcome to the 38th International Conference on Geochemistry and Health to be held in Athens, Greece

The conference aims to bring together international researchers, consultants, regulatory authorities, and other practitioners. Join us to discuss issues, develop professionally, share opinions, find solutions, and explore opportunities in the area of Geochemistry for sustainable development.

10-14 October 2022

The 37th International Conference on Geochemistry and Health was held in Eldoret, Kenya

The conference aims to bring together international researchers, consultants, regulatory authorities, and other practitioners. Join us to discuss issues, develop professionally, share opinions, find solutions, and explore opportunities in the area of Geochemistry for sustainable development.

19-21 September 2022

The call for abstracts is already open and you are welcome to submit abstracts till 20th April 2022 Detailed information on how to submit an abstract can be found at: https://geoscienze.org/torino2022/index.php/abstracts/info-norme Thanks for your time and looking forward to meeting you in Turin.

5 July 2022

Michael Watts will provide working examples that explain the importance of quality measurements for commercial and scientific client needs or for scientific written outputs – essentially the confidence required for the end-user to make a decision with measured data. The principles of quality management systems to ensure confidence in measured systems will refer to ISO17025 – the principals are the same for non-/accredited laboratories.  Reference will be made to basic checks on the output of quality measurements, which put together can provide the confidence in measurements from a laboratory. 

16-17 May 2022 

The Symposium SY-04 IUGS, Geoparks and IGCP will be held on May 16th-17th, 2022 during the Geological Association of Canada Annual Meeting. The Symposium will focus on retrospection, today and the future and Canadian contributions. 

6 May 2022

Speaker: Prof. Michael H. Ramsey, University of Sussex & RSC AMC (Chair) (Eurachem) This is a unique opportunity for our ECRs to learn from an expert in the field of measurement uncertainty, Prof. Michael H. Ramsey, Chair, Sampling Uncertainty Working Group of EURACHEM and past SEGH president. The uncertainty of measurement values (MU) is now often estimated in most laboratories, but this usually overlooks the often much larger contribution that arises from the field sampling (UfS). This talk will describe how UfS can be estimated by taking a small proportion of field samples in duplicate, and analysing each duplicate twice in a balanced design. Analysis of variance is then used to estimate the total MU, and to separate its components arising from both the chemical analysis and the sampling (UfS).  There will be a 45 min lecture + 10-15 min questions and discussion. 

20 April 2022 

Environmental Pollution in Asia Workshop 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. This is significantly more severe compared to other continents. Future economic development in Asia, life style, and survival of humans will be severely impacted by our ability to manage our natural environment. Besides these issues, Asia also faces several other issues related to the environment, e.g., intense land use and shifting pattern of agriculture, poorly applied and managed pesticides and fertilizers in soil and water; untreated or partially treated industrial solid and liquid waste in urban areas. Therefore, there is an urgent and strong need to focus on highlighting and documenting some of these issues and potential solutions that are region-specific. The present workshop will highlight the status of environmental pollution from Asia. The workshop will be useful to researchers, scientist, environmental organizations and industries in Asia and all over the world. 

 28 February 2022 

Dr Lindsay Bramwell, Dr Jane Entwistle and Dr Sanja Potgieter-Vermaak invite you to their online session: 'Interested in monitoring indoor air quality? Experiences and opportunities from the Home Biome project 

 Friday 28 January 2022 SEGH invites you to attend an online event on the 28thJanuary at 14.00 London, UK time to celebrate the 50th anniversary of SEGH in 2021 during which short presentations will be provided from each of the authors who submitted a commentary piece or paper that represented the diversity of SEGH to a special issue entitled ‘Celebrating 50 years of the Society for Environmental Geochemistry & Health’ has been prepared throughout 2021 in the official journal of SEGH,  Environmental Geochemistry & Health.  Details are attached for the meeting and how to connect via Zoom.  This will be an open meeting with an invitation to members and new friends to attend. 

15 December 2021

E-waste pollutants are recalcitrant xenobiotic compounds, found in different environmental compartments. E-waste pollutants have low water solubility and semi-volatile hence get attached with the soil or sediment organic matter. Due to their high lipophilic properties, e-waste pollutants biomagnify into the food chain, and bioaccumulate in organisms in general, and in human-being particularly. It has been reported that e-waste pollutants pose toxic effects such as carcinogenic effects, neurotoxic effects, endocrine disruption, and immune-toxic effects etc to living organisms. The present workshop will highlight the e-waste pollution monitoring, exposure to human-being, risk assessment and toxicities using human cell model. The workshop will be useful to researchers, scientist, environmental organizations and electronic industries all over the world.