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March 2007 edition of Interface in pdf format (2Mb)
Dear members,
The period since the last edition of INTERFACE has been a busy time for SEGH, with the 24th European Conference of SEGH taking place in Bratislava, Slovak republic in April 2006, followed by the 7th International Symposium on Environmental Geochemistry in Beijing in September 2006. Reports from these meetings can be found on pages 2 and 4 of this issue of INTERFACE. 2007 promises to be equally busy, with a meeting of the USA branch of SEGH (on Urban Geochemistry and Health) planned in New Orleans for June 2007 (see page 5), plus a special workshop on Legacy and Future Direction in the Remediation of Contaminated Land within CEE states taking place in September 2007 in Bratislava, Slovak Republic (see page 8).
This year also sees the 25th Anniversary meeting of the European branch of SEGH, in Liverpool, U.K. in June 2007. This anniversary event will be marked by a special NERC (the UK Natural Environment Research Council) – funded SEGH workshop entitled MULTITUDE – Multiple Links towards Integrating Teams for Understanding of Disease and Environment. Full details of this workshop are given on page 6. Former Presidents of SEGH Brian Davies and John Farmer reflect on the history of SEGH in Europe, and look forward to the future, on pages 9 and 11.
The next edition of INTERFACE will appear later this year, and, as always, I would encourage members from all branches of SEGH to send items for inclusion in the next issue as soon as possible. Please note that I have recently moved universities, from the University of Sussex to the University of Brighton, and my new email contact details are given below. Professor Andy Cundy A.Cundy@brighton.ac.uk University of Brighton February 2007
Report from the 24th European Meeting of the Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, 24th -26th April 2006
The 24th European Meeting of the Society for Environmental Geochemistry & Health was hosted by the Slovak Association of Geochemists and the Geological Survey of the Slovak Republic, and was held in the beautiful city of Bratislava, Slovak Republic, between the 24th and 26th April 2006. Attracting sponsorship from a range of organisations (Geological Survey of the Slovak Republic, ENVIGEO, INGEO-ENVILAB, EL spol. and HYDEKO-KV), the event attracted delegates from eight countries, with a wide range of excellent presentations on topics related to the conference theme of Geoenvironment Contamination and Quality of Life. Following an ice-breaking session on the evening of the 23rd April, the first day’s presentations were held in the conference centre of the Hotel Sorea, and examined geochemistry and human health risk assessment, followed by studies of soil quality and contaminant bioavailability in Ireland, the U.K., Portugal and the Slovak republic. In particular, this session helped to showcase some of the excellent geochemical mapping and analysis work carried out by the Slovak Geological Survey and related bodies. At the end of the session, and following lunch with copious amounts of local peach brandy, delegates were free to walk (or stagger) into Bratislava and explore the historic city centre (below). Field excursions were held on the second day of the meeting, in glorious sunshine, with a visit to the Gabcikovo dam on the Danube, on the Slovak- Hungarian border. The Gabcikovo dam was constructed following a 1997 interstate agreement with the Republic of Hungary, and provides hydroelectric power and navigation and flood management along the section of the Danube running along Slovakia’s southern border. Delegates were taken on a tour around the hydroelectric facility, and were shown how the environmental impact of the dam has been managed (right). Following lunch in a local restaurant, the group then visited Devin castle, a historic site on the Danube west of Bratislava.
The final day of the conference was held at the Geological Survey of the Slovak Republic offices, where delegates were formally welcomed by Jozef Franzen, General director of the Geology section, Ministry of the Environment of the Slovak republic, and treated to a performance of traditional Slovak music to open the session (left). The final day’s session discussed spatial data analysis, sampling uncertainty, risk assessment and site remediation, and ended with more peach brandy and local wines. Delegates were impressed by the warm welcome they received in Bratislava, and thanks are due to the local organising committee, particularly Stanislav Rapant and Katarína Krcmová, who did such an excellent job in organising and running the conference.
Andy Cundy
Report from the 7th International Symposium on Environmental Geochemistry, Beijing, China 24-27th September 2006
This was an impressive meeting, with around 570 papers presented by participants from over 50 countries, and with sponsors that included the prestigious Chinese Academy of Sciences. Topics covered the full scope of environmental geochemistry, from the understanding of geochemical processes through to human health effects, and from the effects of mining to the use of geochemical records in the interpretation of climate change.
The setting in the city of Beijing was very new and exciting for most ISEG delegates, compared to the more familiar recent venues of Colorado (1997), Cape Town (2000) and Edinburgh (2003). The conference dinner gave delegates the chance to sample a wide range of Chinese dishes, which are not available on the typical ‘Chinese’ restaurant menus in the west (e.g. goose feet!). Many of the delegates took the opportunity to investigate the fascinating tourist sites within or near Beijing (Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven (below left), Great Wall) and some ventured out to see the ancient Chinese capital city of Xi’an with its temples and Terracotta Warriors (below right). Our hosts were very welcoming and hospitable, and also extremely well organised. There were many happy reunions between delegates who often only meet at ISEG conferences. Especially enjoyable for me were the reunions between former supervisors and local research students, who studied in Europe but are now leading the rapid and substantial developments in Environmental Geochemistry that are occurring in China in particular, and in the Asia-Pacific Region in general. Mike Ramsey
SEGH meetings.
SEGH Europe 25th Anniversary meeting and NERC-funded workshop, June 4 – 7, 2007, Liverpool, U.K. See pages 6 and 7 for further details
SEGH U.S.A. conference, “Urban environmental contamination and health under the microscope: the aftermath of Katrina”. July 21-24, 2007, New Orleans, Louisiana.
5th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Environmental Geochemistry (APSEG5). Date to be confirmed, 2008, Singapore.
26th European Meeting of the Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health. Date to be confirmed, 2008, Athens, Greece.
Other meetings of interest.
17th Annual Goldschmidt Conference, Cologne, Germany August 19 - 24, 2007 www.goldschmidt2007.org
Note that there will be a special session on “Geochemical records of recent environmental change in sediment systems”, supported by SEGH Europe, convened by Professor Andy Cundy and Dr. Kevin Taylor. The 33rd International Geological Congress will be held in Oslo 2008. A symposium on Medical Geology (Geomedicine) will be held during the congress. Further information can be obtained from Professor Eiliv Steinnes, Technical University of Norway, Trondheim e-mail eiliv.steinnes@chem.ntnu.no
23rd International Applied Geochemistry Symposium (IAGS 2007), Oviedo, Spain, June 14-19, 2007. http://www.appliedgeochemists.org/events/iags2007/iags2007.html
The next SEGH-organised conference in the U.S.A. will take place in New Orleans, Louisiana between the 21st and 24th of July, 2007. The conference, titled “Urban environmental contamination and health under the microscope: the aftermath of Katrina” will examine changes in the nature of urban environments after events such as Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005.
The main themes of the conference are:
• New Orleans surface contamination and the effects of Hurricane Katrina
• Mapping urban soil metals and organic contaminants
• Urban geochemical maps and baselines for urban contamination
• Risk characterisation and risk assessment: pharmacokinetic models, bioavailability
and exposure
• Urban contamination and human health monitoring
• Contamination remediation
Organised by Andrew Hunt and Howard Mielke – contact AHunt@segh-nola-2007.com
Forthcoming Conferences / Symposia 2007-2008
Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health SEGH 25th European Conference: Understanding environmental contributions to the burden of disease 4th – 5th June 2007, Liverpool, UK. Hosts: Health Protection Agency, Cheshire & Merseyside Health Protection Unit http://www.hpa.org.uk/cheshireandmerseyside/default.htm
Dates: 4th & 5th June 2007, including a field trip examining life in a village on contaminated land. Aims and objectives: This conference aims to bring together researchers from both the medical / health and the geo / environmental specialities to examine the interactions between contamination of the environment and human health. There will be plenaries on the following subjects, with speakers from both the health and environmental disciplines: · “Soil contamination, groundwater issues and human health” · “Methods for linking environmental data and routine health data” · “Radon and radioactive land”. Call for papers: See website for updates http://www.segh.net/
A 2.5-day interactive workshop on Environment & Human
Health (June 5th-7th) will be held following the conference, funded by
the U.K. Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). This workshop, titled
Multiple Links Towards Integrating Teams for Understanding of Disease
and Environment (MULTITUDE), has the following objectives:
• To bring together researchers from both the medical/heath and the geo/environmental
specialisations, in order to
o Discuss how ideas from these different specialisations can be combined to identify and address gaps in current understanding
o Initiate interdisciplinary collaborations that will result in fresh research strategies to address these important topic areas, ready for preparation of new EH&H proposals
Forthcoming Conferences / Symposia 2007-2008
• To publish proceedings of the workshop, which can act
as a focussed review and starting point for further development of research,
using this integrated approach The focus will be on establishing multiple
links between environment and health, the relationship between relevant
disciplines and to explicitly identify interdisciplinary opportunities
in medical and public health research. These will be addressed in five
interactive workshop sessions on specific topics, listed below:
1. Transport and dynamics of toxic pollutants in the natural environment
and their effect on human health.
2. Uncertainty in risk assessment, epidemiology and regulation.
3. Social, economic and behavioural factors in the genesis and health
impact of environmental hazards.
4. Strategies for improving health in contaminated situations.
5. The effects of multiple toxic pollutants on health.
For more information, visit http://www.segh.net/
Legacy and Future Direction in the Remediation of Contaminated Land within CEE states
A workshop addressing developing EU policy on contaminated
land, its health implications, and advances in remediation strategies
Bratislava, Slovak Republic, October 9th and 10th 2007. This workshop,
funded by the ENVIRON Foundation and supported by SEGH Europe, will examine
the contaminated land legacy, health impacts and remediation strategies
in the CEE (Central and Eastern Europe) Visegrad Group (V4) countries:
the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland. The workshop will:
• highlight the implications of policy developments in the EU for regional
land remediation strategies and seek to ensure that policy is informed
by the latest scientific knowledge
• identify and examine potential problems in implementing EU contaminated
land-related policies and directives in CEE countries, and how these may
be overcome
• increase awareness of the health implications of contaminated land and
good practice in health risk assessment and communication
• present and discuss innovative remediation techniques
• share best-practice and promote sustainable trans-national links
• publish presentations and proceedings in the form of a reference handbook.
New European initiatives currently being developed, such as the European Soil Strategy & Ground Water Directive, will have major implications for regional policy makers and those responsible for land remediation. This workshop will seek to bring participants up to date with these, and other relevant, proposals and discuss what they will mean in practical terms, as well as providing an opportunity for scientists and practitioners in the field to contribute expert knowledge to national policy-makers, to inform effective legislation. The public health issues surrounding contaminated land and its remediation will also be considered, focussing in particular on the complexities of risk communication. At the practical level, novel methods of remediation will be introduced and their relative advantages and applicability in differing conditions discussed. The participants and audience will comprise regional policy-makers, remediation practitioners, those involved in research in the field, and other stakeholders, with invited speakers including experts in regional contamination issues, public health, new remediation technologies and EU policy development. For further details see: http://www.brighton.ac.uk/environment/news_events/contaminated_land.html Organisers:
Forthcoming Conferences / Symposia 2007-2008
SEGH MEETINGS IN BRITAIN – THE FIRST TEN YEARS Brian E Davies The twenty fifth meeting in Britain of the European section of the Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health (SEGH) is planned to take place in Liverpool in 2007. Sadly, my detailed records of the early years have not survived after employment in three universities, emigration and too many computer upgrades with the associated changes in storage formats (does anyone remember 5.25 inch ‘floppies’?). The following account is drawn from memory and editorials I penned over the years for Environmental Geochemistry and Health. It is therefore my personal recollections of the first ten years.
By the end of the 1960s the belief that trace substances in the environment might directly influence human health and well being was becoming accepted by reputable scientists. The late Dr Delbert D Hemphill organised the first of the Trace Substances in Environmental Health meetings in 1967 in Columbia, Missouri, a series that continued until 1993. SEGH had its beginning in Dallas, Texas on the night of December 30, 1968 at a symposium on Environmental Geochemistry in Health and Disease. Initially the name chosen was the Committee On Geochemical Environment Related To Health And Disease. SEGH was organised in its present form in 1970 at the 4th Annual Conference on Trace Substances in Environmental Health in 1970. I was enjoying a sabbatical in Cincinnati in 1970/71 when I was invited to join this new society, and promptly did.
During the 1970s SEGH grew steadily in the USA and began to attract an international membership especially from among those who attended and enjoyed the annual Trace Substances meetings, where many long friendships were formed. However, by the end of that decade support for research was becoming less generous and the quest for funding far more competitive. In 1981 I had the privilege of spending a six month sabbatical in the University of Missouri at Rolla with Professor Bobby Wixson, one of the eminent activists in SEGH, who has been a member from the beginning and to whom I am grateful for information concerning the early history of SEGH in the USA. We discussed on many occasions how to foster SEGH internationally. Bobby had become a frequent visitor to me in Aberystwyth and it was during one of those visits that a determination emerged to form a branch of SEGH in Britain centred on an annual meeting. I remember we sat one chilly autumn day in 1982 eating a pub’ lunch at Ponterwyd, near Aberystwyth, before visiting yet another derelict lead mine. A log fire, good food and a pint each of the local bitter soon fired up our enthusiastic imaginations. I asked Bobby Wixson to make enquiries on his return home to establish whether SEGH would give its support to independent meetings in Britain. I received full encouragement and boldly went ahead with organising the first conference in 1983. Because public transport to Aberystwyth was not easy (nothing on Sundays!) I took the risk of choosing a central venue in England but one a long way from home: Aston University in Birmingham. Fortunately, at that time I was involved in joint epidemiological research with the Birmingham University Dental School and was making occasional visits to the city. The Aston conference office was most helpful and the meeting proved a big success with some thirty registrants. I was encouraged to try again in both 1984 and 1985 at the same venue. By the third meeting we had built up momentum, as it were, and other brave souls were volunteering to organise the annual meetings. We also formed a formal section of SEGH with a British bank account to overcome problems and costs of remitting funds to the USA.
The fourth meeting, 1986, was organised by Professor Iain Thornton in Imperial College, London and also the fifth (1987) in conjunction with the Second International Symposium on Geochemistry and Health. These London meetings under Iain Thornton’s able leadership undoubtedly helped put SEGH “on the map”. In the meantime (1985) I had assumed editorship of a minor journal then called Minerals and the Environment. The title was changed that year to the present Environmental Geochemistry and Health (EGAH) and SEGH agreed to recognise EGAH as its official research journal. I made available its pages for SEGH conference proceedings under guest editorships. In 1985 I moved from Aberystwyth to the chair of Environmental Science at Bradford and in 1988 I hosted the sixth meeting. Professor Margaret Farago organised the seventh meeting the following year at Egham, the new quarters of the translated Royal Holloway College. Reading University was our venue in 1990 (Professor Joy Carter) and Bath College (Dr Kate Pavely) in 1991. The tenth SEGH meeting was organised in Scotland by Professor John Farmer and I leave it to him to trace the course of the subsequent years. Sometime during those first ten years we changed from the initial concept of a British section to the wider European section.
We had started in a generally receptive environment. In 1978 The Royal Society hosted a two day meeting in London on Environmental Geochemistry and Health. Subsequently the Royal Society sponsored a Working Party (1979 to 1981) to advise on links between environmental geochemistry and health. Professor S.H.U. Bowie, FRS, chaired it, Iain Thornton was its secretary and I served on it. As we grew we also profitted from other efforts by our members. In 1988 SEGH formed a Task Force, chaired by Professor Wixson and me, to develop guidelines for lead in soil. The published report (1993) was well received and is now the basis for the (British) DEFRA document SGV10 ‘Soil Guideline Values For Lead Contamination’. In London, Professor Iain Thornton organised successful meetings in 1986, 1987 and 1988 covering environmental geochemistry and health and lead in the home environment. By the time of our tenth annual meeting in 1992 SEGH had become established and reputable in Britain.
I have named the organisers of each SEGH meeting. But they, I am sure, and I readily acknowledge the direct help given us by our research groups and colleagues in Britain and the ever ready encouragement from the parent society in the USA. American members have been very loyal in attending and supporting SEGH in Britain; Professors Al Page, Nord Gale and Bobby Wixson came frequently. British members have also made every effort to support the parent society in the USA and past Presidents have included Professor Iain Thornton, Professor John Farmer, Dr Ron Fuge and myself.
Ambrose Bierce, that gifted satirist, who defined an optimist as a proponent of the doctrine that black is white, also defined the noun ‘future’ (in his The Devil’s Dictionary of 1906) as “That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.” I hope that for once a Bierce definition is not the ultimate in cynicism and may properly be applied to the next twenty five years of SEGH activities.
SEGH EUROPEAN MEETINGS: THE LAST 15 YEARS (1992-2006)
John G. Farmer
Having attended two Meetings at Birmingham and spoken at the 7th and 8th Meetings at Royal Holloway & Bedford New College and Reading University, respectively, I was asked by Brian Davies at Reading if I would be willing to organise one at Edinburgh University. This I agreed to do provided it was in the spring of 1992 as I had already promised to chair the Heavy Metals in the Environment Conference in Edinburgh in the autumn of 1991. Little did I realise then that the dates for the latter would clash somewhat embarrassingly with those of Olle Selinus’s first (although named 2nd !) International Symposium on Environmental Geochemistry in Uppsala or that the 10th SEGH European Meeting in Edinburgh in April 1992 would be the first of as many as six to be held in Scotland out of a total of 14 from 1992 to 2005.
Thus the 13th Meeting was organised by Professor Keith Nicholson at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen in 1995; the 17th by Professor Gus MacKenzie and Dr. Ian Pulford at Glasgow University in 1999; the 18th (a special case, see below) by Dr. Harry Duncan (Glasgow) and myself (Edinburgh) again at Glasgow University in 2000; the 21st as part of the 6th International Symposium on Environmental Geochemistry, held in Edinburgh in 2003 and chaired by myself with a local organising committee of Dr. Margaret Graham (Edinburgh University), Fiona Fordyce (British Geological Survey), Gus MacKenzie and Keith Nicholson; and, lastly, the 23rd by Professor Andrew Hursthouse at Paisley University in 2005.
That the Celts were flexing their muscles during this period was further reflected in the venues for the 11th (University of Wales, Aberystwyth) and 15th (Geological Survey of Ireland, Dublin) Meetings, held in 1993 and 1997, respectively. Dr. Ron Fuge, who had been elected as Chair of the European Section of SEGH at Reading in 1990, organised the former, while Dr. Pat O’Connor, with assistance from Dr. Peter McArdle (Director) and Malcolm Brown (BGS Keyworth), was responsible for the latter. The conviviality for which the Celts are renowned was again strongly in evidence!
Lest I be accused of bias, let me hasten to add that the five Meetings held in England during this period were just as successful in both scientific and social terms! The 12th was organised by the aforementioned Malcolm Brown at BGS Keyworth in 1994; the 14th by Professors Iain Thornton and Margaret Farago, with assistance from then PhD students Louise Ander, Peter Kavanagh and David Lund, at Imperial College London in 1996; the 16th by Professor Aradhana Mehra at Derby University in 1998; the 19th by Dr. Kevin Taylor at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2001; and the 22nd by Professor Mike Ramsey at Sussex University in 2004.
Despite the success of these Meetings in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, it became increasingly the view of the SEGH European Committee (incidentally put on a more formal footing from 1995 and chaired by myself from 1995 to 1998, Professor Joy Carter from 1998 to 2001, Aradhana Mehra from 2001 to 2004 and Mike Ramsey since 2004) that SEGH European Meetings should surely be held in continental Europe to reflect the title of the European Section. Hence the 20th, organised by Professor Zoltán Györi and Drs. Bela Kovacs, József Prokisch, Ildiko Szegvári (Debrecen University) and Lászlo Simon (College of Nyíregyháza), at Debrecen in eastern Hungary in 2002, and the 24th at Bratislava, Slovak Republic in 2006, when Dr. Stanislav Rapant (Geological Survey of Slovak Republic) was the organiser, have helped to redress the balance a little. I am told there is no shortage of candidate locations for the future.
Sometimes, but not always, there have been specific themes for the Meeting, such as ‘Isotopes in Environmental Geochemistry and Health’ (10th), ‘Contaminated Land’ (12th), ‘Energy and the Environment’ (13th), ‘Mining and the Environment’ (15th), ‘River and Estuarine Pollution/Fossil Fuels and Environmental Quality’ (16th), ‘Environmental Chromium Contamination and Remediation’ (18th) and ‘Heavy Metal Contamination and the Quality of Life’ (20th), but without fail there has been a judicious blend of presentations on a wide range of environmental and geochemical topics with consideration of impacts upon health. Keynote presentations have often been delivered by medical practitioners, recent examples including Leonard Levy (MRC Institute of Environment and Health) on ‘Chromium in the environment: an evaluation of exposure of the UK general population and possible adverse health effects’ (18th), Virginia Murray (Consultant Medical Toxicologist, then at St. Thomas and Guys Hospital, London) on ‘Their health in our hands: toxicology, geochemistry and health’ (19th), Janna Koppe (Professor of Neonatology, Amsterdam University) on ‘Organic contaminants in pregnancy and breast milk’ (22nd), Ken Donaldson (Professor of Respiratory Toxicology, Edinburgh University) on ‘Geotoxicology – a new name but a long history’ (23rd), and Vladimír Bencko (Professor of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Charles University of Prague) on ‘Ecological and human health risk aspects of burning arsenic-rich coal’ (24th).
Presentations by research students have always been encouraged at SEGH European Meetings, commonly with oral presentations delivered by PhD students in their final year and poster presentations by students in final or earlier years. For the past decade or so, Delbert D. Hemphill Prizes have been awarded to the students giving the best oral and poster presentations and abstracts of the corresponding papers have subsequently appeared in Interface, the Society’s Newsletter. Over those years, Interface has been well served by a succession of Editors from the European Section, Dr. Janet Cotter-Howells (1996-2000), Dr. Margaret Graham (2000-2005) and now Professor Andrew Cundy (2005- ). There has often been fuller output from Meetings, either in the form of full papers or extended abstracts, published in Special Issues of Environmental Geochemistry and Health, those devoted to the 10th, 11th, 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th Meetings coming readily to mind. More recently, presenters have had the option of submitting papers to the journal in the normal manner.
In addition to these Annual Meetings, which now usually comprise two days of formal scientific presentations followed by a one-day field trip to sites of interest, there have been several one-day meetings held in association with other Societies. At the 18th Annual Meeting in 2000, however, the first day of 40 oral and poster presentations was followed on the second by a morning field trip to chromium-contaminated sites in and around Glasgow and then an afternoon Workshop and public forum opened by the Leader of South Lanarkshire Council and presided over by Professor Jane Plant from the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. It is anticipated that there may be greater call for such events in the future to enable the full participation of all interested parties. Watch this space!
List of communicating members, SEGH European branch (2006/2007)
These members have agreed to be the first point of contact for SEGH matters
in their respective
countries.
Vladmir Bencko
Head of Institute
Institute of Hygeine and Epidemiology
First Faculty of Medecine
Charles University of Prague CZ128 00
Czech Republic
E-mail: vladimir.bencko@lf1.cuni.cz
Professor R Salminen
Geological Survey of Finland
P O Box 96
FIN-02151 Espoo
Finland
E-mail: Reijo.Salminen@gsf.fi
Professor E Helmers
Environmental Campus
University of Applied Sciences
Postfach 13 80 D-55761
Birkenfield, Germany
E-mail: e.helmers@umwelt-campus.de
Mr Alecos Demetriades
P.O.Box 64047,
Zografou
Gr-1st 10
Athens, Greece
E-mail: alecos.demetriades@hotmail.com
Dr Bela Kovacs
Debrecen University
Centre for Agricultural Science
Department of Food Processing and Quality
testing
H-4015 Debrecen POB 36
Hungary
E-mail: kovacsb@helios.date.hu
Bjorn Bolviken
Rute 512
N-2848 Skreia
Norway
E-mail: bjorn.boliviken@ngu.no
Professor Eduardo Ferreira-Silva
Head of Department
Departmento de Geociencias
Universidade de Aveiro
Campus de Santiago
3810-193 Aviero
Portugal
E-mail: eafsilva@geo.ua.pt
Dr Rapant Stanislav
Stany geologicky ustav Dionyza Stura
Geological Survey of the Slovak Republic
Mlynska dolina 1
817 04 Bratislavia
Slovakia
E-mail: rapant@gssr.sk
Dr Jorge Loredo
Profesor Titula
E.T.S Ingenieros de Minas
Independencia 13
33004 Oviedo
Spain
E-mail: jloredo@uniovi.es
Dr Olle Selinus
Head of Division
Bruksgardna 7
74350 Vattholma
Sweden
E-mail: olle.selinus@sgu.se /
olle.selenus@home.se
Members of the SEGH Executive Board
Andrew Hunt President
SUNY, College of Environmental Science and
Forestry.
1 Forestry Drive,
Syracuse NY, 13210,
USA. Tel: (315) 635 7211 (ahunt2@ren.com)
Joy Carter Vice-president
Pro Vice Chancellor (Academic), University of
Glamorgan,
Pontypridd, UK,
Tel: 01443 482551
Fax: 01443 482774 (jcarter@glam.ac.uk)
Bobby G. Wixson Secretary and Past
President
University of Missouri-Rolla (Emeritus),
4698 South Forest Ave,
Springfield, MO. 65810 , USA
Tel: (417) 885 1166.
(DRBGWIXSON@aol.com)
Nord L. Gale Treasurer and Past
President
University of Missouri-Rolla (Emeritus)
35 Burger Drive,
Rolla, MO 65401, USA,
Tel: (573) 364 3652 (nordjoan@fidnet.com)
Malcolm J. Brown Councillor
British Geological Survey (mjbro@bgs.ac.uk)
John Carter Councillor
Mining Prop. Restoration (jcarter@doerun.com)
Hyo-Taek Chon Chair (Asia-Pacific)
Seoul National University (chon@snu.ac.kr)
Xiangdong Li Councillor
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,(cexdli@polyu.edu.hk)
Aradhana Mehra Councillor
University of Derby, (A.Mehra@derby,ac.uk)
Howard Mielke Councillor
Xavier University of Louisiana,(hmielke@xula.edu)
Michael H. Ramsey Chair (Europe)
University of Sussex,(m.h.ramsey@sussex.ac.uk)
Joyce Tsuji Councillor
EXPONENT, (tsujij@exponent.com)
Ron T.Watkins Councillor
Curtin University of Technology,(iwatkins@info.curtin.edu.au)
John Farmer Past-president
University of Edinburgh, (J.G.Farmer@ed.ac.uk)
Jim Fricke Past-president
Resource Management Consultants, (jim@rmcut.com)
Richard Cothern Past-president
Chevy Chase, MD, USA (rcothern@att.net)
Betsy T. Kagey Past-president
Cumberland, MD, USA, (BKagey@frostburg.edu)
Ron Fuge Past-president
University of Wales, Aberystwyth (rrf@aber.ac.uk)
Iain Thornton Past-president
Imperial College (i.thornton@imperial.ac.uk)
Brian E. Davies Past-president
Clemson University (bedavies@bellsouth.net)
Ming H. Wong Journal Editor
Hong Kong Bapist University(mhwong@hkbu.edu.hk)
Andrew Cundy INTERFACE editor
University of Brighton(A.Cundy@brighton.ac.uk)