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The New Zealand Land Treatment Collective 2012 Conference:

Emerging contaminants - unlocking the secrets of everyday chemicals and their fate in the environment

LOCATION:

The Sebel Trinity Wharf, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

28-30 March 2012

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Dr Grant Northcott: Plant and Food Research.  Grant is an environmental and analytical chemist with over 19 years’ experience. He has participated in research programmes assessing organic contaminants in sewage sludge applied to land in New Zealand and the UK and has co-authored a report on EU revisions to the recommended limits for organic contaminants in sewage applied to land (DETR, UK).  

Graham Sevicke-Jones is the Environmental Science Manager for Hawke’s Bay Regional Council, with over 22 years experience as a scientist in local government. Since graduating from Canterbury University Graham worked as an industrial chemist before taking up a science position in South Canterbury Catchment Board in water quality and ecology, an interest he continues with today. Graham has been involved in a number of water quality programmes furthering research and monitoring in NZ at a local and central government level. Graham is convenor of the Surface Water Integrated Management Group (SWIM), a special interest group within local government.

Dr. Ajit K Sarmah:  Ajit is a senior lecturer in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Auckland.  He is a multi-disciplinary scientist and an environmental engineer with a background in soil physics, contaminant hydrology and environmental organic chemistry with over 20 years experience in diverse areas of environmental pollution. He has pioneered the NZ research effort on endocrine disrupting compounds and the fate of veterinary antibiotics in the environment and will provide perspective on emerging contaminants in the dairy environment.

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