12th Scottish Symposium on Environmental and Analytical Chemistry symposium
This symposium was hosted online at the University of Glasgow on the 12 December 2020 by the Scottish Region Analytical Division. Originally planned to coincide with the COP26 Climate Discussions due to be held in Glasgow in 2020, but now delayed, the symposium aimed to maintain momentum around raising the profile of climate and environmental research with a focus on analytical and environmental chemistry.
The symposium organising team worked hard to move the event online and set out to make the most of the opportunities arising from the new format, including online posters and virtual poster discussions as well as traditional presentations. Online peer voting was also used to select the poster prize.
Discussions were plentiful throughout the day, especially around the Keynote Lecture, ‘Using molecular fossils to decipher past environmental and climate signals’ from Prof. Jaime Toney (School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow).
Following the success of the event we expect some elements of the Scottish Symposium will stay virtual in the future. The move online widened the network of scientists presenting and attending the symposium; we welcomed some 40 delegates from 3 continents and had some good interactions on Twitter via #ScotEAC2020.
Nine Early Career Researcher’s presented on wide variety of fascinating topics including new detection routes and analyses of pollution in the air, soils and waterways, honey bees and drones, and state of the art method development in the analytical laboratory.
Melissa Moore, PhD student from the University of Glasgow was awarded the poster prize for work on ‘Commonly used components in culture media abiotically decay ß-lactam antibiotics’. Hollie Packman, PhD Student from Imperial College London was awarded best early career oral presentation for work on ‘Tracing natural and anthropogenic sources of aerosols to the Atlantic using Zn and Cu isotopes’.
Charlotte Slaymark and William Peveler, University of Glasgow
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