New recruit at AQMRC

Jo Barnes has recently joined the Air Quality Management Resource Centre (AQMRC) at UWE as a Research Associate following a very enjoyable and rewarding four-year "apprenticeship" at the Air Quality Unit (AQU) at Cornwall College. Despite frequent allusions to her apparent lack of sanity, Jo has left the balmy climes of Falmouth and set up home in drizzly "Brizzle"!

Tim writes piece for Environmental Health News

Tim was invited to write an opinion piece for Environmental Health News on the need to balance the climate change agenda with public health and other environmental issues.  The piece was published in EHN on 15th February and can be accessed on the website of the Chartered Institute for Environmental Health here.

AQMRC Contributes to SEPHO report on Transport and Public Health

The AQMRC has helped the South East Public Health Observatory compile a section on air pollution in its new report "Choosing Health in the South East: Road Transport and Public Health".  The report can be downloaded from the SEPHO website here.

 

AQMRC hosts successful Environmental Protection UK National Student Showcase

AQMRC hosted a very successful National Student Showcase for the charity Environmental Protection UK  on 31^st July. The day consisted of a number of presentations from students representing various UK universities, and covered a variety of environmental topics. AQMRC PhD students were well represented: Simon Baldwin presented his research on integrating carbon management and local air quality management, Dotun Olowoporoku presented his research on managing local air quality through local transport planning, and Rose Bailey introduced her research on carbon management in Bristol. Other student presentations covered the subjects of hydrogen deposition and geothermal energy. The winner of the competition was Ben Williams from Portsmouth University, who presented on the development of an empirical dust dispersion model based on sample geochemistry. Ben will be presenting his work at the Environmental protection UK conference in February 2009.