To: SETAC UK Members

UK SETAC NEWS AND MEETINGS:

Thank-you for your continued membership of SETAC and welcome to those of you who have just joined the Society. We are writing to update you on upcoming SETAC-UK activities.

Scientific Activities for 2007

Mark Cronin is busy updating our list of meetings ideas for the future, and firm plans are already in place for the 2007 annual UK branch meeting, which will be held at the University of East Anglia (Brian Reid as the lead, and local organiser). The theme of the meeting will be "Organic Contaminants in the Environment Today's Technology for Tomorrow's Problems", to be held in the first week of September 2007. SETAC-UK is also currently involved with a meeting on "Environmental Forensics" (see meeting page). We are also encouraging student orientated events, and we are seeking views from the student members on possible topics for training workshops etc. So, if you have any ideas please contact the student representative on council.

Changes to UK Council

A number of office bearers retired and also took up positions on council. SETAC-UK council is a vibrant and active group of scientists with a balance of members from academia, industry and government. The council members and an indication of some of their current roles are now listed on he council members page. All council members are also involved in the scientific programmes.

Young Researchers Meeting , July 2007

SETAC-UK, the Department of Environmental Sciences at the Lancaster Environment Centre and the SEB welcomed 27 young researchers from around the UK to a meeting under the title "Fresh thinking on environmental science: Current and future challenges" between 5th and 6th of July 2007.

The program composed of 13 platform presentations and several poster presentations. All the presentations were of great quality in terms of science and presentation. Awards for the most popular presentations awarded by Dr Mark Cronin, Meetings Officer at the SETAC-UK council.

Awards:
Best platform presentation award received by Melanie Bottoms of University of Reading with her presentation on "A method for analysing cefquinome, a veterinary pharmaceutical, by HPLC-ESI-MS".
Best poster presentation award received by Claire Corkhill of University of Manchester with her presentation on "Oxidative dissolution of arsenic-bearing minerals involving Leptospirillum ferrooxidans".

Many thanks to SETAC-UK council, SEB, Lancaster Environment Centre for supporting this event and all the participants for their enthusiasm.

Please find below the platform and poster presentations in pdf.

Photos from the meeting click here http://picasaweb.google.com/andreou.kostas

Nanotechnology Meets the Dinosaurs

Click here to read the full report.

A Reminder: We would like to hear from any SETAC member interested in hosting or organising a meeting or workshop in the UK. SETAC-UK can help by providing targeted publicity, and a network of potential speakers, sponsors and delegates. Collaborative meetings are especially welcome.

Fee Collection:

Membership fee collection : SETAC-UK Council no longer collects membership fees direct from members. You should now renew your membership via the SETAC Europe Offices and if you have not yet renewed for 2006 you should do this as soon as possible (contact SETAC-Europe at setac@setaceu.org). SETAC-UK has closed its bank account with Lloyds in order to stop any future direct debits to us, but if you still have a direct debit to SETAC-UK please cancel this as soon as possible. We have again asked Lloyds to immediately refund any direct debits, with an assurance from the bank that this has now been done. If your direct debit has been enacted and you have not already been automatically refunded for 2008 please contact Brian Reid (SETAC-UK) for a refund.