TIME / SPEAKER / TITLE
10:30 /
ARRIVAL
10:40 / Colin Brown / Conference welcome
SESSION 1 / CCHAIR: Adam Hejnowicz
10:45 / Natalie Kopytko / Improving social systems and addressing climate change: The Marfusha Cooperative in Khersons'ka Oblast, Ukraine.
11:15 / Louise Best / Late Holocene sea-level change and saline intrusion, Humber Estuary, UK.
11:35 / Leigh Howarth / Measuring the effects of Scotland's first fully protected marine reserve.
12:00 / LUNCH
SESSION 2 / CHAIR: Tom Bean
13:00 / Tom Holmes / The effects of storminess on coastal ecosystem services and wellbeing.
13:20 / Majid Khan / Influence of commercial formulations of pesticides on the behaviour of their active substances in soils.
13:45 / Tortrakul Wattanavorakijkul / Sustainability of oil companies.
14:10 /
COFFEE BREAK
SESSION 3 / CHAIR: Esther Githumbi
14:30 / Nvenakeng Suzanne Awung / Effective communication as a tool for improving local community participation in the Mount Cameroon National Park REDD+ project.
14:55 / Wissam Al-Hayek / Organizing ICZM analysis through a boundary object – Case study: Aqaba, Jordan.
15:20 / Guy Stevens / Reproductive strategies and fecundity of the reef manta ray (Manta alfredi) in the Maldives.
15:50 / Nwabueze Igu / Freshwater swamp forests dynamics in the Niger Delta
2014 ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT PG RESEARCH CONFERENCE
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE, FRIDAY 21st FFEBRUARYTIME / SPEAKER / TITLE
10:30 /
ARRIVAL
SESSION 5 / C CHAIR: Natalie Kopytko
10:40 / Tom Bean / Comparative bioaccessibility for pharmaceuticals.
11:10 / Xiaowen Wang / Households' attitudes to Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) in the environment.
11:35 / Adam P Hejnowicz / The cosmology of ecosystem services.
12:05 / Jiahua Guo / Risk based prioritisation of pharmaceuticals in the UK.
12:30 / LUNCH
CONFERENCE KEYNOTE
13:30 / Dr Tabitha Innocent / Making sense of science and evidence
14:30 / COFFEE BREAK
SESSION 7 / CHAIR: Omar Abdullah
15:00 / Abigail Sutton / Leadership as a component of successful fisheries management.
15:20 / Gustaf Rydevik / What one can gain from multiple diagnostic tests (statistics/method development/Infectious diseases/wildlife).
15:40 / Phoebe Morton / Upland management and flux measurements: vegetation matters.
16:00 / Anthony Onyekuru / Does nature, nurture and cost mater in climate change adaptation among the forest poor: empirical evidence from Nigeria?
16:30 / POSTER PRESENTATIONS AND WINE RECEPTION
POSTERS
Sian de Bell. Ecological interventions for health outcomes
Stephanie Osborne. Modelling the impacts of ozone pollution on food security across three continents.
Anil Rautray. Using participatory tools to define acceptability criteria for new rice varieties in Eastern India.
Kyoduk Koo. Uptake of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) under changing climate into aquatic organisms.
Michael Bungard. Can we talk about tropical montane amphibians? Improving species distribution models to capture rare species and unique habitats.
Mohd Ammarr Mohd Aripin. Environmental and economics studies of aquaculture fish seed production.
Omar Abdullah. Occurrence, fate and analysis of pharmaceuticals in Iraqi river Tigris sediment.
Esther Githumbi. East African long term ecosystem and landscape dynamics: a multidisciplinary approach.
Isabel Grijalvo Diego. Monitoring and modelling mitigation measures in small agricultural catchments: SWAT simulations.
Aderiana Mutheu Mbandi. The contribution of road transport emissions to air pollution in African cities.
Mohd Firdaus Mohd Anuar. Fate and behaviour of nanopesticides.
Lena Yeha. Are community revolving funds a sustainable and equitable way to slice the REDD+ pie?
Samuel Thompson. Optical classification of nanoparticles.
Rana Parween. Did historical sacred spaces (SS) and traditional conservation techniques (TCT) conserve biological diversity?