SEGHLive: Fellowship Seminars

SEGH celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2021; a special issue of Environmental Geochemistry & Health marked this event. We now look forward to the next 50 years. In 2022 we welcomed our new president. As we emerge from a global health crisis, and with conflict, economic insecurity and climate change clouding our horizons, the activities of SEGH were never more relevant. Our Fellows provide a core to SEGH. This status is awarded by the SEGH board to individuals who have made significant personal contributions to the promotion of the Society. Many have served as board members, Chair, hosted SEGH conferences and many other areas of contribution. They are also recognised for their contribution to the scientific knowledge base across the SEGH landscape and advancing understanding of the interaction between the environment and human health.

In 2022 we are launching a series of SEGH Live (online) presentations by SEGH Fellows which will share experience and knowledge and strive to transfer the ethos of the collaborative nature of our group.

The sessions will be invaluable to Early Career Researchers but also enable each of us to step into areas of expertise of other members of the society, which has a very broad reach.

These 35 minute presentations, with a 15 minute Q&A, will be held approximately monthly. The time of day is intended to enable as many people across the global time zones to attend as possible. However, for those unable to attend a live session, the recordings will be available to access after the event via the website.

Please refer to the website on a regular basis to see what has been added to the schedule.

Watch Previous Seminars

Next Seminar

Sequential Anaerobic/Aerobic Biodegradation of Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Pakistani Soils

Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi

Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are persistent organic pollutants and emitted during e-waste activities. Once enter into the environment, PCBs could pose toxic effects to environmental compartments and public health. Bioremediation is a reassuring technology for elimination of PCBs from the environment. The talk will focus on anaerobic and aerobic biodegradation of PCBs in e-waste contaminated soils from Pakistan; Identification of active PCB-degrading bacteria in soil and to determine the role of soil physico-chemical properties on PCBs degradation.

Next Seminar: June 2025

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Seminars 2025

24 January 2025

First comprehensive study of the state of environmental pollution in Region Lagunera, Mexico and its possible impacts on human health

Ofelia Morton

Researcher at the Institute of Geophysics at UNAM

28 March 2025

24 January 2025

The FOREGS multi-media geochemical atlas

Alecos Demetriades

Chair of the Sampling Committee of the IUGS Commission on Global Geochemical Baselines

June 2025

24 January 2025

June 2025

Sequential Anaerobic/Aerobic Biodegradation of Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Pakistani Soils

Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi

Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan

TBC

June 2025

Preparing a manuscript for the journal (EGAH)

Michael Watts

Head of Inorganic Geochemistry, British Geological Survey

TBC

ECLIPS (Elevated Childhood Lead Interagency Prevalence Study) - protocol development and feasibility study

Jane Entwistle

Deputy Faculty Pro Vice-Chancellor, Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Seminars 2023/2024

18 December 2024

Sustainable management of our nuclear wastes legacy – challenges and opportunities

Andy Cundy

Professor of Environmental Radioactivity and Director of Internationalisation in Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton

8 November 2024

18 December 2024

Research, Innovation & Enterprise in the Waste sector: supporting the UN SDGs

Andrew Hursthouse

Professor of Environmental Geochemistry, University of the West of Scotland

TBC

18 December 2024

17 May 2024

Sequential Anaerobic/Aerobic Biodegradation of Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Pakistani Soils

Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi

Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan

17 May 2024

26 April 2024

17 May 2024

European groundwater chemistry

Alecos Demetriades

Chair of the Sampling Committee of the IUGS Commission on Global Geochemical Baselines

26 April 2024

Environmental Research and Citizen Science to Monitor the Hellenic Volcanic Arc Marine Geoenvironment- The nexusmonARC project

Ariadne Argyraki

Department of Geology and Geoenvironment National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Panepistimiopolis Zographou, Greece

1 March 2024

26 April 2024

GEMAS: Geochemistry of Agricultural and Grazing land soil for healthy food production in Europe

Alecos Demetriades

Chair of the Sampling Committee of the IUGS Commission on Global Geochemical Baselines

16 January 2024

12 December 2023

16 January 2024

Rare Earth Elements and Radiogenic Isotopes from Mineral Dust in East Antarctica: Sensitive Tracers of the Atmospheric Circulation and Climate Variability Through Time

Nadine Mattielli

Professor at Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

January 2024

12 December 2023

16 January 2024

The FOREGS multi-media geochemical atlas

Alecos Demetriades

Chair of the Sampling Committee of the IUGS Commission on Global Geochemical Baselines

12 December 2023

Isotope-Based Early-Warning Model: an example of high-resolution site characterization (HRSC)

Maurizio Barbieri & Stefania Franchini

Professor at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

3 November 2023

12 December 2023

Unnatural Cycles: Anthropogenic Disruption to Health and Planetary Functions

Gillian Gibson

Gibson Consulting and Training, UK

Seminars 2022/2023

28 July 2023

31 March 2023

28 July 2023

Air pollution and health

Sanja Potgieter-Vermaak

Senior Lecturer in Analytical Chemistry at Manchester Metropolitan University in Manchester, UK.

26 May 2023

31 March 2023

28 July 2023

Monitoring indoor air quality, health and wellbeing: application of low- cost sensors and validated questionnaires

Jane Entwistle

Deputy Faculty Pro Vice-Chancellor, Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4375-4502

31 March 2023

24 February 2023

Tall tales from a “lopsided” Geochemist” -navigating interdisciplinary research in environmental geochemistry and health

Andrew Hursthouse

Professor of Environmental Geochemistry

School of Computing, Engineering & Physical Sciences

University of the West of Scotland

24 February 2023

The Anthropocene – are we in a new geological epoch?

Andrew Cundy

School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre (Southampton), Southampton, U.K.

Corresponding: A.Cundy@soton.ac.uk

13 January 2023

24 February 2023

25 November 2022

Iodine environment-human deficiency

Alex Stewart

Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Geography, College of Life & Environmental Science, University of Exeter, UK

25 November 2022

24 February 2023

25 November 2022

International Union of Geological Sciences Manual of Standard Methods for Establishing the Global Geochemical Reference Network

Alecos Demetriades

Chair of the Sampling Committee of the IUGS Commission on Global Geochemical Baselines

28 October 2022

16 September 2022

Example of environmental geochemistry research at the Anthropocene - Air PM pollution and human health

Xiang-dong Li

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong; Email: cexdli@polyu.edu.hk; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4044-2888

16 September 2022

Status of heavy metals contamination in environmental compartments from Pakistan

Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi

Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan

Corresponding: zaffar.hashmi@comsats.edu.pk

Watch previous SEGHLive: Fellows Seminars

Alecos Demetriades

The FOREGS multi-media geochemical atlas

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Dr. Ofelia Morton Bermea, Dr. Gonzalo Garcia Vargas, Dr. Javier Castro Larragoitia, Dr. Virgilio Góngora Echeverría

First comprehensive study of the state of environmental pollution in Region Lagunera, Mexico and its possible impacts on human health

Andy Cundy

Sustainable management of our nuclear wastes legacy – challenges and opportunities

Andrew Hursthouse

Research, Innovation & Enterprise in the Waste sector: supporting the UN SDGs

Alecos Demetriades

EGG: European Groundwater Geochemistry

Download slides here

Ariadne Argyraki

Environmental Research and Citizen Science to Monitor the Hellenic Volcanic Arc Marine Geoenvironment- The Nexus MonARC project

Alecos Demetriades

GEMAS: Geochemistry of Agricultural and Grazing land soil for healthy food production in Europe

Download slides here

Nadine Mattielli

Past and Modern Mineral Dust in East Antarctica: Rare Earth Elements and Radiogenic Isotopes from Mineral Dust in East Antarctica: Sensitive Tracers of the Atmospheric Circulation and Climate Variability Through Time

Maurizio Barbieri & Stefania Franchini

Isotope-Based Early-Warning Model: an example of high-resolution site characterization (HRSC)

Gillian Gibson

Unnatural Cycles: Anthropogenic Disruption to Health and Planetary Functions

Sanja Potgieter-Vermaak & Alex Stewart

Air pollution and health: Halton Borough Council case study

Professor Jane Entwistle

Monitoring indoor air quality, health and wellbeing: application of low-cost sensors and validated questionnaires

Professor Andrew S Hursthouse

Tall tales from a “lopsided” Geochemist: navigating interdisciplinary research in environmental geochemistry and health.

Andrew Cundy

The Anthropocene – are we in a new geological epoch?

Download slides here

Alecos Demetriades

IUGS Manual of Standard Methods for Establishing the Global Geochemical Reference Network

Download slides here

Xiang-dong Li

Example of environmental geochemistry research at the Anthropocene - Air PM pollution and human health

Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi

Status of heavy metals contamination in environmental compartments from Pakistan