The Eighth AGM of the Section will be held at 6.30pm on 26 March 2014 in Room E0.05, John Dalton East Building, Manchester Metropolitan University

The AGM will be followed by a talk by Alastair Driver FCIEEM (Environment Agency), entitled “To Hell and Back - the story of the Thames Restoration”.

A provisional agenda and nomination form are HERE – the deadline for nominations is 21 February 2014

For more information, including a map showing the location of the venue, please see:
http://www.cieem.net/events/659/north-west-england-section-agm-2014

About the North West England Geographic Section...
CIEEM has 11 Geographic Sections, providing a local presence for CIEEM members within every geographic area of the UK and Ireland. Each Section is run by a Committee of volunteers whose function it is to promote CIEEM’s work and membership in their area through running regional events, engaging with other professional bodies, responding to issues of local concern to members and providing networking with like-minded professionals and students.

The North West England Section would like to invite you to take just a few minutes to fill out a short survey to help inform the events and activities that they run on your behalf. Your responses by Friday 28th February 2014 would be appreciated.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DM2DNWC

How to get involved with the North West England Section Committee
Every member of a Geographic Section Committee is a volunteer with a busy day job or other commitments. The support of the wider CIEEM membership in volunteering to be part of their Section Committee, or simply providing support with running an event, is vital to ensuring that each Geographic Section can offer the best support to members and the profession in their area. This is a valuable opportunity to have an active role in the activities of your professional body. If you can spare some time to help out, or would like more information on becoming a member of the North West England Section Committee, please don’t hesitate to get in touch by emailing vickybowskill@cieem.net or visiting http://www.cieem.net/geographic-sections.


Many Thanks
Vicky Bowskill
Geographic Sections Coordinator

Spring Research Seminar Series

Hi everyone,

There are some interesting seminars this term - some of which would be very suitable for you to attend. You may download a list of the seminars as a PDF HERE

MSc Field Trip

Hi all and Happy New Year !

I have sent out the following email to those of you who started this year:

Hi all,

As you all know, there is an MSc field trip in the Lake District that runs from:

Monday 31st March – Thursday 3rd April inclusive (4 days / 3 nights).

Full-time students taking EMSD/EMB/SA would normally be expected to attend.
The trip is also open to PT and PT/DL students who wish to attend (strongly advised to attend).

The trip includes a formative assessment for Research Design & Methods. I am allowing PT/PT-DL students to attend in their first year so they can stay with their own cohort and familiar friends – but you are welcome to attend the trip next year if you prefer (as part of year 2). I amalso happy for PT stduents from last year to attend if they wish.

The trip is a very valuable way of getting hands-on experience of specialist field equipment used in industry – as well as standard techniques for both field data collection and laboratory analysis.

The trip has an “earth, air and water” format which includes activities as diverse as air pollution monitoring, GIS, spectroradiometry, vegetation and soil assessment and water analysis. Even if you do not intend to use such techniques in your future career, you may be supervising people who do.

The cost is £120 which includes transport, accommodation, breakfast and lab fees etc.

I have attached a brochure for you to look at HERE

Please email me confirmation of your attendance no later than the end of Wednesday 22nd January this week.