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IGI Communicating Geoscience Seminar 2014

IGI Communicating Geoscience Seminar

Presentations for download:

Communicating Geoscience: Lessons learned from engaging with the media, elected representatives and communities

Special event of the Irish Geological Research Meeting 2014

Held on: Friday 28 February 2014 – 09:15-12:30
Venue: George Moore Theatre, O’Brien Centre for Science, University College Dublin

The Institute of Geologists of Ireland hosted this seminar, the first of its kind in Ireland, which featured public relations professionals and geoscientists from the public, private and academic sectors. It provided expert guidance and case studies from Ireland, the UK, Italy and the Mid-Atlantic of the successes and perils of communicating geoscience to the public. The content is relevant to all geoscientists working on the island and beyond.

Presentations are now available to download:

Dr Alessandro Amato, Director of the Italian National Earthquake Centre before and after the L’Aquila earthquake.
Conall McDevitt, Associate partner Hume Brophy, former member of the NI Assembly, SDLP Director of Communications and advisor to John Hume during NI peace process.
Sonya Cassidy, Director Cassidy PR, award-wining practitioner with 20 years experience, clients include: BGS, Geological Society of London, GSNI, Dalradian Resources.
Professor Andy Wheeler, Chair of Geology at University College Cork and marine geologist.
Séan Finlay, Geoscience Ireland, Director – Business Development.
Mairéad Glennon, Geological Survey of Ireland, award-winning Tellus Border Project.

Download Programme and Speaker Profiles

For inquiries, please contact Marie Cowan at mtc@bgs.ac.uk or Mairead Glennon atMairead.Glennon@gsi.ie

Dr Alessandro Amato presents “INGV terremoti: communicating
earthquakes in a 2.0 world”

Peat Stability 2010

01 What is Peat Dr Alan Dykes (9.2 MB)

02 Investigative Methods for Peat Dr. Mike Long (10.5 MB)

03 Developing a Peat Depth Map Robert Bone (12 MB)

04 Geophysics and Peat Mapping Andy Trafford (11.6 MB)

05 Determining Stability of Peat Slopes Dr. Paul Jennings (14.2 MB)

06 Construction Management Issues Conor O’Donnell (11.2 MB)

07 Upland Peat Loss Dr. Jeff Warburton (10.1 MB)

08 Risk Assessment Ian Uglow (7.MB)

09 Numeric Modelling Dr. Mark Cottrell (720 KB)

10 Wind Energy Development in Peat Aileen Doyle (276 KB)

11 A Planner’s Perspective Gavin Lawlor (3.2 MB)

Eu directives Seminar 2010

EU Directives Seminar 2010

EU Directive Overview – Pat Fenton (9.2 MB)

Adobe_PDF_file_icon_24x24 EU Poilcy and Legislation for Waste Management – Jonathan Derham (260 KB)

Adobe_PDF_file_icon_24x24 Overview of Landfill Directive – An Irish Perspective – John O’Neill (708 KB)

Adobe_PDF_file_icon_24x24 Directive 2006/21/EC on the Management of Waste from the Extractive Industry – Ben Dhonau (452 KB)

Adobe_PDF_file_icon_24x24 Control of Major Accident Hazards Directive (3.2 MB)

Adobe_PDF_file_icon_24x24 Water Framework Directive – Colin Byrne (4.3 MB)

Adobe_PDF_file_icon_24x24 The EU Groundwater Directive (2006) (GWD) and the Groundwater Regulations (2010) – Donal Daly (4.2 MB)

Adobe_PDF_file_icon_24x24 Environmental Liability Directive 2004/35/CE – Jonathan Derham (584 KB)

Adobe_PDF_file_icon_24x24 The Habitats and Birds Directives – Ciaran O’Keeffe (1.9 MB)

Adobe_PDF_file_icon_24x24 Overview of Proposed Soil Framework Directive – John O’Neill (384 KB)

Adobe_PDF_file_icon_24x24 EU Directive 2009/31/EC on the Geological Storage of CO2 – Dr Deirdre Lewis (3.2 MB)

Natural Resource Reporting Workshop 2009

Introduction (168 KB)

Session 1 – Opening Slide (92 KB)

Why Europe Needs a Mineral Resource’s Policy
By; Patrice Christmann, EuroGeoSurveys BRGM (3.4 MB)

Economic Value of Geoscience in Ireland
By; Deirdre Lewis, SLR Group (5.8 MB)

Resource Reporting – The first Step in Sustainable Mining
By; John Clifford, Deputy Chairman CRIRSCO (1.3 MB)

Session 2 – Opening Slide (88 KB)

PERC Reporting Code 2008
By; Wynand Kleingeld, PERC (312 KB)

Russian Code
By; Grigory Malukhin, Russian Delegate to EFG (1.2 MB)

Mapping Russian Code to CRIRSCO
By; Niall Young, CRIRSCO (340 KB)

Petroleum and Mineral Resources Classifications
By; David McDonald, BP (184 KB)

Session 3 – Opening Slide (88 KB)

Views from Major
By; Patrick Redmond, Teck Limited (1.6 MB)

Reserve and Resource Statements- View from a Junior Co.
By; Colin Andrew, CMR plc (520 KB)

Industrial Minerals Resources Reporting
By; Dan Germiquet, Imerys SA (504 KB)

Geological Constraints and Modifying Factors -Cement
By; Ruth Allington, GWP & EFG Council Member (6.6 MB)

Market Regulation for Mineral Companies
By; Job Langbroek, Davy Stockbrokers (1.4 MB)

Session 4 – Opening Slide (84 KB)

The PERC Reporting Code & the EU Extractive Directive 2006/21/EC, et al
By; Jonathan Derham, Environmental Protection Agency (108 KB)

Policy to Practice
By; Garth Earls Director, Geological Survey of Northern Ireland – No presentation available

Workshop Closing Slide (36 KB)

Groundwater and Sustainable Development 2007

Download pdfs of Conference Presentations here

Session 1 –

Sustainability – The Legal Framework
(By; Prof. Yvonne Scannell, Arthur Cox Solicitors) (552 KB)

Implications of the EU Water Framework Directive
(By; Donal Daly, Environmental Protection Agency) (6 MB)

Session 2 –

Irish Aquifers
By; Tally-Hunter Williams & Monica Lee, Geological Survey of Ireland) (6 MB)

Groundwater Management in the UK- The Importance of an Integrated Approach
(By; Jan van Wonderen, Mott McDonald) (746 KB)

A Uk Operators’ Experience
(By; Rob Sage, Three Valleys Water Plc.) (1.4 MB)

Session 3 –

Licensing of Groundwater in Northern Ireland
(By; Peter McConvey, Northern Ireland Geological Survey) (3 MB)

IGI Water Well Guidelines
(By; Geoff Wright, Consultant Hydrogeologist) (2.4 MB)

Tools for Predicting Levels of Impacts
(By; Angelo Papaioannou, Enviros) (5.8 MB)

Session 4 –

Dewatering & the Quarrying Industry (slides 1 – 16) (5.8 MB)
Dewatering & the Quarrying Industry (slides 17 – 31) (5.7 MB)
(By; Dr. Les Browne, Eugene Daly Associates (CSA Group))

Developing Groundwater in a Changing Regulatory Environment
(By; Kieran O’Dwyer) (2.7 MB)

Ireland’s Natural Resources 2006

Opening Remarks

Gareth Earls (GSNI) – Sustainable Development and the Natural Resource Industries (2.1 MB)

Session 1 – Minerals

Dr John Teeling – Mining in Ireland is there a Future? (556 KB)

John Ashton (Boliden Tara Mines) – Exploration in Ireland – the Future? (5.6 MB)

Dr Ben Dhonau (EMD, Dept of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources) – Policy Developments in Mineral resource Legislation at Irish and EU Level (552 KB)

Terence P Johnston (GSNI) – Northern Ireland’s Natural Resources

(1 of 2) (N/A)

(2 of 2) (4.4 MB)

Session 2 – Aggregates

Liam Smyth (Irish Concrete Federation) – Need for Aggregate Planning Policy (736 KB)

Gerry Sutton (CMRC, UCC) and Koen Verbruggen (GSI) – Ireland’s Offshore Marine Aggregate Resource (6.7 MB)

Paul Caprani (An Bord Pleanala) – Recent trends in the Decisions of An Bord Pleanala in Relation to Quarries (548 MB)

Marie Ryan & Tom Barry (North Tipperary County Council) – Sustainable Natural Resource Development, Section 261 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (4.9 MB)

Session 3 – Water

Gerry Galvin (DEHLG) – Water Resources into the Future – Directive 2000/60/EC (900 KB)

Donal Daly (EPA), Matthew Craig (EPA), Taly Hunter Williams (GSI) and Henning Moe (CMD Ireland Ltd) – Monitoring Groundwater – A New Beginning (3.2 MB)

Teri Hayes (White Young Green) – Groundwater Development – Part of Irelands Sustainable Development (2.2 MB)

Eibhlin Doyle (GSI) – The Need for Up-To-date Regional Datasets (1.9 MB)

Session 4 – Hydrocarbons and Renewables

Noel Murphy (PAD, Dept of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources) – Ireland’s Offshore Hydrocarbon Resources (784 KB)

Stephen Boldy (Lansdowne Oil & Gas Plc) – New Exploration Techniques in the Search for Hydrocarbons – Presentation not available

Graham Brennan (Sustainable Energy Ireland) – Renewable Energy in Ireland and Emerging Technologies (328 KB)

Closing Remarks

Peadar McArdle (GSI) (96 KB)

Breaking Ground 2005

Minister Noel Dempsey’s Speech (12 KB)

Session 1 – Waste Infrastructure

Margaret Heavey (Greenstar) Landfill Sites (744 KB)

Kevin Cleary & Mary O’Hara (WYG) Contaminated Land (336 KB)

Adam Green (Atkins Tunnelling) Belfast Main Drainage (780 KB)

Session 2 – Energy Infrastructure

Eddie O’ Connor (Airtricity) Wind Energy (272 KB)

Adobe_PDF_file_icon_24x24 Michael Boyd (WYG) Wind Turbine Sites (236 KB)

Adobe_PDF_file_icon_24x24 Nick Riley (BGS) Underground Storage (204 KB)

Adobe_PDF_file_icon_24x24 Alistair Allen (UCC) Geothermal Energy (384 KB)

Session 3 – Transport and Natural Resources

Eric Farrell (TCD) National Road Scheme (404 KB)

Brian Byrne (Arup) Cost Over Runs – presentation not available

Adobe_PDF_file_icon_24x24 Tim Paul (JBA) Luas (2.2 MB)

Adobe_PDF_file_icon_24x24 Peter Strogen (Consultant) Aggregates (332 KB)

Adobe_PDF_file_icon_24x24 Paul Jennings (AGEC) Engineering Geology of the M4 (3 MB)

Session 4 – Future Challenges

Ben Follett (Faber Maunsell) Dublin Post Tunnel – presentation not available
David Waters (IAE) Transport 2050 (900 KB)

Adobe_PDF_file_icon_24x24 Sean Finlay/Kevin Cullen (TES/WYG) Hazardous Landfill (144KB)

Adobe_PDF_file_icon_24x24 Ceri James (BGS) Marine Aggregates (664 KB)

Gareth Earls (Director GSNI) Closing Remarks

Land Use and Spatial Strategy in Ireland 2003

Intro-John Clifford

John Browne – Minister

IGI Courses

Primacy Effects in Environmental Attitudes in Mineral Exploration Webinar

Olga Poluektova, the primary author on the ESRI Research Bulletin titled ‘Primacy effects in the formation of environmental attitudes: The case of mineral exploration’ presented a webinar to IGI on the 10th October 2024.

Psychologists have shown that, in general, the first information people encounter can disproportionately influence their opinions; a bias known as the “primacy effect”. This experiment, involving 1000 Irish participants, investigated primacy effects in the context of mineral exploration, which is an important topic for renewable energy technologies that involves complex environmental and economic arguments.

https://www.esri.ie/publications/primacy-effects-in-the-formation-of-environmental-attitudes-the-case-of-mineral-0?utm_source=Newsweaver&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Download&utm_content=All+Subscribers&utm_campaign=Primacy+effects+in+the+formation+of+environmental+attitudes%3A+The+case+of+mineral+exploration

Olga presented the methodology and results of the ESRI study and answered questions from some of the attendees. Aoife Braiden of Geological Survey Ireland, a co-author of the research paper, also attended and answered questions, providing insight from the geological / minerals exploration perspective.

Contaminated Land Training Webinars Recordings

Webinar 1 – 27th September 2023 – “Introduction to Contaminated Land and the Risk Assessment Process” Christopher Newton & Owen Williams

Webinar 2 – 25th October 2023 – “Developing CSMs & Introduction to Risk Assessments” Graham Webb (Geosyntec Consultants Ltd)

Webinar 3 – 22nd November 2023 – “Laboratory Analysis Methods for Contaminated Land Assessments” Ken Scally (SUEZ Smart and Environmental Solutions)

Webinar 4 – 17th January 2024 “Is TPH always TPH? or, What has your lab actually measured?” Ian Bishop (One Touch Data Ltd.)

Webinar 5 – 7th February 2024 ”Risk Assessment Approaches for Human Health and Water Resources Receptors – GQRA and DQRA” Simon Firth (Firth Consultants UK)

Webinar 6 – 28th February 2024 “Beware of Aliens – Invasive Species Workshop” William Earle – INVAS

Webinar 7 – 13 March 2024 “Hydrogeological Field testing” Dr. Tiernan Henry of University of Galway and Dr. John Weatherill of University College Cork