SEGH live and beyond
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EDITORIAL
SEGH live and beyond M. J. Watts
. O. S. Humphrey . D. R. S. Middleton
Received: 7 September 2020 / Accepted: 11 September 2020 Ó Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Throughout the COVID-19 crisis of 2020, we are all having to adapt to the situation whilst not knowing when we can return to some sense of normality and what that new ‘normal’ might look like. As we adjust to alternative ways of working, the Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health (SEGH) International Board is working to evolve innovative ways of interacting with current and (hopefully) new members whilst encouraging back old friends. The first SEGH Live event via a Zoom webinar was set up in response to the COVID-19 crisis and the need to postpone the Kenya conference scheduled for July 2020 to July 2021. Many of the speakers were drawn from abstracts submitted for the Kenya conference, which enabled the rapid organisation of a programme on the 29/30 June. Presentations were supplemented by additional invited speakers to increase the variety of topics and geographic distribution. This article is to
M. J. Watts (&) O. S. Humphrey Inorganic Geochemistry, British Geological Survey, Nottingham, UK e-mail: [email protected] O. S. Humphrey e-mail: [email protected] D. R. S. Middleton Section of Environment and Radiation, International Agency for Research Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France e-mail: [email protected]
thank the participants for their enthusiasm and engagement in a new and interactive format spanning contributors from five continents. The first SEGH Live event attracted some 100 registrations from across 35 countries, with 29 presentations given from 16 countries. The meeting was hosted from Nottigham in the UK with the programme split across an afternoon and following morning to enable maximum participation across all time zones. Sessions were recorded and are available to SEGH members via www.segh.net through the SEGH members-only log-in area. The book of abstracts is available to download for anyone via the Previous Conference Abstract Books page https:// segh.net/conference-abstracts. Sessions were comprised of one 12-min ‘keynote’ presentation, followed by three to four back-to-back 5-min presentations, with time allowed for questions to be directed to the speakers as a group. Through the meeting, we as organisers and the participants became more proficient at handling and offering questions to the speakers. The event hosted a good mix of established researchers and early career researchers providing discussion topics or communicating recent data from ongoing experiments and studies spanning the full range of SEGH interests from biology, ecology, medicine, epidemiology and nutrition through to agriculture, mining, the urban environment, industrial pollution, geology and technological developments,
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often with an overlap between disciplines, as is often the case for SEGH members. Discussions covered the study of naturally occurring
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