Research Through to Practice
9:30 - 10:30 Registration and Coffee
10:30 - 10:40 Welcome Address Professor Stephen Cummings Dean School of Science and Engineering, Teesside University
10:40 - 11:05 Dr Mark Cave: Assessing the Effects of Urban Soil Geochemistry on Human Wellbeing British Geological Survey (BGS)
11:05 - 11:30 Mrs Marianne Stuart: Emerging Groundwater Contaminants, British Geological Survey (BGS)
11:30 - 11:55 Lindsay Bramwell & Dr Jane Entwistle: Newcastle Allotments Lead Biomonitoring Study Newcastle University/Newcastle City Council & Northumbria University
11:55 - 12:20 Mr Paul Gribble: Priority Substances; Laboratory Challenges & Resolutions Technical Director, ALcontrol
Questions & Answer Session
12:30 - 13:30 LUNCH & Posters
13:30 - 13:55 Mr Simon Firth: Category 4 Screening Levels: Their Derivation, Use and Future Development Director Firth Consultants
13:35 - 14: 00 Dr Ehsan Jorat & Dr Mark Goddard: The potential of urban brownfields to capture carbon and provide other ecosystem services Newcastle University
14:00 - 14:25 Dr Ian Martin: Groundwater – Risk Assessment of Waste to Land Environment Agency
14:25 - 14:50 Lucy Thomas: Sobra Subgroups Update Chair Society for Brownfield Risk Assessment (SoBRA)
Questions & Answer Session
14:50 - 15:15 Closing Remarks & Awards