Tellus Conference 2007
Wednesday 17th and Thursday 18th October 2007
W5 science and discovery centre, Belfast
The Tellus Conference is your opportunity to see the new results of recent geoscience surveys that cover all of Northern Ireland. Airborne and ground surveys completed in 2006 reveal new information about our environment and natural resources.
These results will interest everyone concerned with the strategic management of the environment and natural resources in Northern Ireland:
- ·Planners, regulators and policy makers
- ·Central and local government officers
- ·Earth and environmental scientists and managers
- ·Environmental health officers
- ·Agricultural industry
- ·Extractive and energy industries
Tellus provides new perspectives on the physical and chemical contexts of our surface environment, on natural resources, concealed geology and surface soils, and on the state of streams. Volumes of new data have been collected that will inform our understanding and management of the natural environment and the overprint of human activities.
Register your interest now by email - a more detailed programme will follow.
Keynote
Keynote:
Dr Iain Stewart
Presenter of BBC TV's 'Journeys from the Centre of the Earth' and specialist in the geology of natural hazards.
Themes
Lecture, poster and workshop themes will focus on:
The Tellus Surveys
- ·Airborne geophysics
- ·Geochemistry
Environment
- ·Baseline geochemistry in rural and urban areas
- ·Detection of land-fills and industrial contamination
- ·Peat conservation and carbon storage
Natural Resources
- ·Energy
- ·Minerals exploration and development - precious and base metals, industrial minerals and aggregates
- ·Soils and waters
Agriculture
- ·Trace elements in soils and waters
Health
- ·Terrestrial radiation and radon
- ·Geochemistry and epidemiology
Education and the Earth Sciences
- ·Research
- ·Schools programmes
Register your interest
For further information and to register your interest:
- ·telephone: 028 9038 8462, or
- ·email: tellusconference@detini.gov.uk
