The Geological Society of London, Environmental and Industrial
Geophysics Group in association with the Environment Group, Engineering
Group and West Midlands Regional Group:
Non-Invasive Investigation and Monitoring of
Waste Sites: From Engineering to Post Closure
Wednesday 31 March 2004
A one-day conference at the ERI, Pritchatts Road, University of
Birmingham. Admission: £30 (members), £40 (non-members), £20 (students)
inclusive of tea, coffee and buffet lunch.
Advance registration requested, payment only by cash or cheque payable
to “The University of Birmingham”
This one-day conference will highlight non-invasive methods
available in the development, monitoring and investigation of
waste sites. Current practitioners will present innovative
examples of their work, will introduce developments in the use
of geophysical and other non-invasive techniques in the
monitoring of landfills and will provide regulators, local
authorities, operators, consultants and engineers with examples
of how such techniques can be utilised to provide solutions to
waste site issues.
Programme
09:30 to 10:00 Registration and Tea/Coffee
10:00 to 10:10 Welcome and Opening Address
10:10 to 10:35 Characterising Landfills From The Air
David Beamish, British Geological Survey
10:35 to 11:00 Monitoring Low-Level Deformation With Shear-Wave
Splitting Stuart Crampin, Shear-Wave Analysis Group, School of
Geosciences, University of Edinburgh
11:00 to 11:25 Application of Continuous Surface Wave Seismic Profiling
and Numerical Modelling to the Non-Invasive Characterisation of Chemical
Waste Sites, Widnes, Cheshire Nigel Cassidy, Keele University & George
Tuckwell, STATS Ltd
11:25 to 11:50 Design and modelling development of an underliner leak
detection system Ron Barker, University of Birmingham
11:50 to 12:15 Detecting leaks in landfill sites
Steve Taylor, University of Birmingham
12:15 to 13:30 Lunch
13:00 to 13:30 EIGG AGM
13:30 to 13:55 Application of Spectroscopy and GPR in monitoring the
effects of landfill leachate dispersion Graham Ferrier, University of
Hull - TBC
13:55 to 14:20 Expected Confidence and Required Probability of Sampling
Patterns at Waste Sites.
Steven Smith, Environment Agency
14:20 to 14:45 Time-lapse electrical imaging of a landfill dewatering
programme Joanna Moore, ESI Ltd
14:45 to 15:30 Tea/Coffee
15:30 to 15:55 Experience of landfill imaging using integrated
geophysical techniques. Joe Lenham, RGSL
15:55 to 16:20 Geophysical investigation of Rough Park Quarry landfill
Site, St Joseph’s College, Up Holland, Wigan, Lancs, Julian Flack,
Environmental Advice Centre Ltd
16:20 to 16:45 Geophysics Applied To A Waste Management Facility From
Cradle To Grave Simon Emsley, Golder Associates
16:45 to 17:00 Final discussion and close
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