SCLF Conference – 2012

18 September 2012
"3th Annual Conference on the Advances in Land Contamination Assessment and Remediation"

Sponsors

Presentations

• Alison Searl (Institute of Occupational Medicine): Review of methods to assess risks to human health from contaminated land for the Scottish Government
• Donald Payne (Fife Council) and Peter Livingstone (Eadha Enterprises): What’s new and improved in … phytoremediation?
• Simon Talbot (Ground Gas Solutions): Shale gas – impacts, emissions & monitoring
• Michael Poland (Atkins): Coed Darcy – A beginning (18 Mb)
• Richard Lord (University of Strathclyde): Can brownfield land be reused for energy crops to help Scotland deliver its 2020 renewable energy targets? (13 Mb)
• Sarah Watts (Atkins): Radioactively contaminated land – issues, risks and solutions
• John Heathcote & Jonathan Wood (Dounreay): Distinction of arsenic contamination from natural background in soil at the Dounreay nuclear site, Caithness.
• Peter Dumble (Waterra In-Situ) & Lindsay McMillan et.al. (University of Birmingham): Groundwater sampling methodology – guidance, good practice and the importance of screen length in the assessment of contaminated land
• James Baldock (ERM UK): Advances in chlorinated solvent source zone treatment using in-situ thermal technologies
• Christine Switzer et.al. (University of Strathclyde): Effects of high temperature remediation processes on soil properties and function
• Russell Thomas (Parsons Brinkerhoff) & Laura McGregor et.al. (University of Strathclyde): The British gas industry – considerations for the use of environmental forensics

Posters

• Karlis Dreimanis & Philippe Sentenac (University of Strathclyde): Electrical resistivity tomography and electromagnetic assessment of East Ayrshire reservoir embankments
• Adeyemi Roland et.al. (University of the West of Scotland): Carbon sequestration by mineral carbonation of contaminated land and waste residue in Scotland
• Kiri Rodgers et.al. (University of the West of Scotland): Assessing the impact of metal speciation on the recovery, re-use and disposal of steel process by-products
• A Alsukaibi et.al. (University of Glasgow) & R Szmidt (Kuttner (UK) Limited): Effects of rockdust and green compost waste on degraded soil
• K Torrance et.al. (University of Strathclyde) & L Munk et.al. (University of Alaska): Evaluation and remediation of an abandoned mercury mine site in southwest Alaska