[ Chair: Mike Wood; Co-chair: Carmel Mothersill ]
An IUR Task Group is being established to facilitate the development and adoption of non-lethal methods in radioecology. Chaired by Dr Mike Wood (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), the specific focus of the Task Group is the development of international cooperation in the area of non-lethal methods for measuring contaminant burdens in wildlife.
To achieve this, we need a…
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[ Award granted on 20 June 2011, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada ]
Dr Yoichiro OMOMO has been
granted the 3d IUR V.I. Vernadsky Award on 20 June 2011 on the occasion of the
opening of the International Conference on Radioecology and Environmental
Radioactivity in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
He is now an executive
advisor of the Institute for Environmental Sciences (IES) which was founded in
1990 in Rokkosho-mura, Japan, where large…
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[ SCK-CEN (Mol, Belgium) Environment, Health and Safety Institute ]
SCK-CEN is looking for an expert in Biosphere Modelling and Radiological Impact Studies to help with the performance of radiological impact studies and the development of biosphere model (radiological impact model), primarily in connection with the disposal of radioactive waste.
A four years position as temporary scientific collaborator (m/f).
Job description and details for…
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[ Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 20 June 2011 ]
The XXXIIIth General Assembly of IUR will be held on the occasion of the ICRER 2011 International Conference on Radioecology and Environmental Radioactivity in a hot context whilst Japanese radioecologists are facing the radiological consequences of the Fukushima accident on both, the population and the environment.
The General Assembly will take place at the conference premises, in…
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[ 14-17 November 2011, Boston, USA ]
SETAC (Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry), HPS (Health Physics Society) and IUR (International Union of Radioecology) are organizing a session on environmental radiation at the next SETAC annual meeting in Boston, 14-17 Nov 2011 (http://boston.setac.org/).
If you are interested in submitting a presentation abstract, please inform as soon as possible:…
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[ Selected opinions and views from expert radioecologists ]
The current events in Japan are challenging radioecology as well as nuclear safety. An important issue worth considering is to assess what is the level of achievement of the scientific knowledge reached with regard to understanding the environmental impact of radiation accidentally released over the territories and the sea. As a prerequisite to the management of risk,…
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[ Anselmo Paschoa (Brazil) deceased on 24 March 2011 ]
Last Thursday, 24th March,
during a meeting at the Brazilian Physics Society, when the Brazilian nuclear
program and the actual organization of the Brazilian nuclear sector was under
discussion, Anselmo Paschoa, fell. Urgent relief, CPR, resuscitation apparently effective, repeated arrhythmias, but does not seem to have recovered consciousness until his death less than two days later,…
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[ Deadline for submiting candidacies: 30 March 2011 ]
The current IUR Board of Council is now reaching its term. As per the current constitution, it will remain in force until a new
Board is elected. In consequence, the Secretariat is now engaging the
procedure necessary to organise the election round.
The first
step of this procedure is to identify the candidates willing to hold
one or the
other position within the Board of…
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[ Cataclysm in Japan and nuclear consequences ]
The scientific community of radioecologists, spread in 56 countries around the world, is highly concerned since a few days about its Japanese members, who are experiencing a tragedy born from the uncontrollable forces of nature which are now provoking accidental loads of the environment with artificial radioactivity leading to fears of threatening the population health.
…
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[ Call for candidates ]
The current IUR Board of Council is now reaching its term. As per the current constitution, it will remain in force until a new
Board is elected. In consequence, the Secretariat is now engaging the
procedure necessary to organise the election round.
The first
step of this procedure is to identify the candidates willing to hold one or the
other position within the Board of…
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