Links To Sister Organisations
CHES
is an organisation that includes Senior Environmental Scientists from both colleges and universities. CHES aims to promote and facilitate Environmental Education within Higher Education
GEES
The Subject Centre for Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES) aims to improve the learning and teaching experiences of everyone in these disciplines in Higher Education Institutions in the UK. Based at the University of Plymouth, the GEES Subject Centre is a national and international hub in the exchange of knowledge on learning and teaching across the three disciplines. It provides a voice for these communities, contributing to government consultations and policy developments.
SocEnv
is a professional body, which represents environmentalists. The society has joined forces with other professional bodies, also known as constituent bodies. The Society aims to promote sustainable development and regulate environmental professionals. One way to do this is by offering the Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv) award to their constituent bodies.
ENEP
is an Association of Environmental Experts from all over Europe linking national platforms to raise the visibility and the influence of environmental professionals on the European level. Effective protection of the environment will be possible on a merely national level. In response to this challenge ENEP was founded and is know providing a platform for an international exchange of environmental experts from all academic disciplines. ENEP brings together professionals who are working in the field of environmental protection all over Europe and gives them an opportunity to exchange their experience from their home countries, to find common solutions and learn from successes and mistakes made in the current and future member countries of the European Union.
Science Council
is a leading independent body with a membership of over 28 professional institutions and learned societies, supported by their member networks of more than 300,000 scientists across the breadth of science and mathematics. The main purpose of the Science Council is to promote the advancement and dissemination of knowledge of and education in science, pure and applied.
Air Quality Web Sites
Air Quality related website review; everything from air quality data on your doorstep to the equipment needed to monitor it. With acknowledgement to Alex Ledbrooke, Cornwall Air Quality Forum.
Air Quality Management Resource Centre (AQMRC)
from the University of the West of England. This site includes information on: events run by the Centre (and others), AQMAs in the UK, useful links to relevant legislation and other organisations working within the air quality management field, and information on some of the regional air quality groups working within the South West.
Environmental Protection UK
offer masses of information which can be daunting but the site is well constructed making it easy to find. The topics are diverse and make good use of external sites. There is also a list of forthcoming events.
World Health Organisation (WHO)
A search for ‘air quality’ in the WHO’s search engine found proximately 11,800 matches! Amongst this bounty of information, the most useful sections include WHO air quality guidelines, an up to date list of reports and the link to the AQ2.2 software download. If you’re looking for health effects and air quality, look no further than this site.
NETCEN
The UK National Air Quality Information Archive - Everybody knows the NETCEN site. The site is full of statistics from the UK Automatic Urban Network with useful facilities for downloading selected data from all the monitors. The site also provides information about Local Air Quality Management including help for Local Authorities declaring AQMAs etc.
Encyclopaedia of the Atmospheric Environment
The Manchester Metropolitan University run the site and as the name suggests it includes a lot about the environment. The Air Quality section covers all sorts from Asthma to Wildlife with some sections offering two levels of detail which is chosen by either selecting the Bart Simpson icon (easy) or Mr Burns (doesn’t he own a nuclear power plant?). A good site for young students or members of the public.
Air Pollution Information System (APIS)
Searching the myriad of information on the APIS website is geared around four main search categories; Pollutants, Impacts by Issue, Impacts by Ecosystem and Legislation and Agreements. Each search is met with a large page of text which goes into plenty of detail for most users but the whole lot could do with a more lively appearance.
Air Quality Management Magazine
Essential reading for anyone working in the air quality industry. Whilst not giving away too much the site gives you the headlines from past and present magazine editions which can be downloaded (not the most recent issues). This monthly magazine will keep you updated on research and project progress, new equipment and conference reports from around the UK and beyond. An informative and entertaining read aided by editor Jack Pease’s quirky quips.
UK Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling Liaison Committee (ADMLC)
You’ll need a boat for this one, it requires a lot of trawling! No internal search engine means scrolling up and down the pages to get what you want and even then it’s easy to miss things. There is a lengthy introduction, a list of publications, a list of work, a list of events, a list…, you get the idea.
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Scientific Papers
Earth Portalis a comprehensive resource for timely, objective, science-based information about the environment. It is a means for the global scientific community to come together to produce the first free, expert-driven, massively scaleable information resource on the environment, and to engage civil society in a public dialogue on the role of environmental issues in human affairs.
ScienceDaily
is a fantastic online resource devoted to science, technology, and medicine. The free service brings breaking news, scientific papers and videos about the latest discoveries and research projects in everything from agriculture to zoology.
Education & Careers
Soil-Net
is a comprehensive educational resource, aimed at Key Stages 1 to 4 (ages 5 to 16) concerning soils, their functions, and the challenging future that they face. Read a report on this website in the December 2006 e-Newsletter.
Sustainable Learning
is a programme providing a structured, task based approach to the way energy and water is used in schools. Schools working through this programme have realised energy reductions of 10% on average and have a better understanding of how energy and water is used in their schools.
FutureMorph
is designed to show young people, parents and career advisors some of the amazing and unexpected places that studying science, technology, engineering and maths can take you.
Connexions Direct
Careers Scotland
Careers Wales
Northern Ireland Careers
Organisations
CL:AIREis an independent, not for profit organisation established to stimulate the regeneration of contaminated land in the UK by raising the awareness of practical sustainable remediation technologies.
Environmental Chemistry Group
(ECG) considers all aspects of the complex relationships between chemistry and the environment. The ECG aims to understand the behaviour of chemical species in the water, soil and atmospheric environments; exploring their sources, reactions, transport and in particular their effects on each of these environments.
Foundation for Environmental Education
(FEE) is a non-governmental, non-profit organisation promoting sustainable development through environmental education.
Sense About Science
is an independent charitable trust that responds to the misrepresentation of science and scientific evidence on issues that matter to society, from scares about plastic bottles, fluoride and the MMR vaccine to controversies about genetic modification, stem cell research and radiation.
SETN
supports the development of the Environmental and Clean Technology (ECT) sector in Scotland.
Newsletters
HEA Sustainability Newsletteris a bi-monthly, e-Newsletters on on the Higher Education Academy's sustainable development activities, services, resources and publications, funding opportunities and forthcoming events.
Science for Environment Policy
is a newsletter produced on behalf of the European Commission. It is designed to help the busy policy maker keep up to date with the latest environmental research findings.
Blogs
Becoming Greenis Morgan Phillip record of trying to put into practice the ideas he explored in his PhD thesis. The blog exists to chart his adventures in Education for Sustainability.
Law
Law and your Environmentis to improve access to environmental law information as well as empowering more people to participate in environmental matters in line with the objectives of the Aarhus Convention 1998.
UK Environmental Law Association
(UKELA) is the UK's foremost membership organisation working to improve understanding and awareness of environmental law, and to make the law work for a better environment. Its members - including lawyers and non-lawyers from across the private, public and voluntary sectors - are involved in the practice, study and formulation of environmental law across the UK and EU.