You are invited to attend the Institute of Biology’s Affiliated Societies Forum
Water: Science into Policy
Monday November 24th
The Royal Society
6 Carlton House Terrace
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11.30 Registration and Coffee
12.00 Tim Brigstocke MBE MIBiol
Introduction and presentation to Affiliated Societies on discussions between
the Institute of Biology and the Biosciences Federation on the creation of a
new organisation for the biological sciences and scientists.
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Prof Paul Leonard FIBiol
Introduction to the Forum Session on Water: Science into Policy
13.40 Dr Alistair Boxall, University of York
Possible climate change impacts on the movement of chemicals and pathogens
from agricultural land to surface waters and the implications for environmental
and human health.
14.10 Robin Law, Cefas
Working within a multidisciplinary science team to tackle contamination and
pollution events - the case of the container ship MSC Napoli.
14.40 Prof Tony Allan, KCL and SOAS
Invisible environmental and political economy processes: problems of getting
them into water policy.
15.10 ‘Water on the floor’
An informal opportunity for Affiliated Society delegates and colleagues to
present and discuss (from the floor) their activities relating to water policy
and science.
15.30 End
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Tim Brigstocke MBE MIBiol
Tim Brigstocke’s career has spanned much of the agricultural sector. He
served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Royal Association of
British Dairy Farmers for the past 7 years and is now Secretary/Technical
Adviser to the Houses of Parliament All Party Parliamentary Group on Dairy
Farming, he also serves on the Food Standards Agency Advisory Committee on
Animal Feedingstuffs. He is a Non Executive Director of Lantra, the sector
skills council for the land based sector, the Trustee of a large number or rural
charities and a visiting Fellow at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. He
provides oversight of the UK Government’s Animal Health and Welfare Strategy
via his membership of the England Implementation Group. Tim is Vice-
President, Science Policy at the Institute of Biology.
Prof Paul Leonard FIBiol
Paul Leonard is an environmental consultant with forty year’s experience. He
has had a long association with the University of Plymouth and Brunel and his
active involvement in a wide range of aquatic environmental research issues
has included the provision of advice to government ministers. He spent over
twenty years working in the Cefas laboratories at Lowestoft dealing with the
transport and fate of pollutants and the design of monitoring programmes.
During the last fifteen years he has worked with MAFF and Defra as Head of
the Marine Environment Science Unit.
Dr Alistair Boxall
University of York.
Alistair is an environmental chemist with research interests in the fate,
behaviour and effects of pesticides, biocides, veterinary medicines, industrial
chemicals and nanomaterials in the environment. He has worked in a number of
areas including: environmental risk assessment; bioavailability of
contaminants; environmental monitoring studies; toxicant identification
evaluations; environmental fate modeling; and the use of molecular modelling
techniques to predict toxicity. Alistair has previously worked at the Plymouth
Marine Laboratory, The University of Sheffield, Liverpool John Moores
University, the Water Research Centre, and more recently at Cranfield
University where he was joint head of the Cranfield Centre for EcoChemistry.
Robin Law
Cefas.
Robin Law joined the Cefas Burnham Laboratory in 1975, working on the
environmental impact of offshore oil and gas exploration/exploitation. During
the last 30 years he has been involved in the impact assessments following a
number of major marine oil and chemical incidents, most recently the
grounding of the container ship MSC Napoli. Currently he leads an emergency
response team which advises UK government following oil and chemical spills
at sea. He also has a more general interest in monitoring and organic
contaminants, particularly in marine mammals, and has published more than
100 papers on aspects of marine pollution.
Prof Tony Allan
King's College London (KCL) and School of Oriental and African Studies
(SOAS).
Tony Allan heads the Water Research Group at KCL and SOAS. He specialises
in the analysis of water resources in semi-arid regions and on the role of global
systems in ameliorating local and regional water deficits. In his early career he
was concerned with hyrdrological and environmental issues but gradually
turned his attention to the social and political when it became evident that
environmental science could not explain why people manage water as they do.
He pointed out that the water short economies achieve water and food
security mainly importing water intensive food commodities. He established the
concept of virtual water. In 2008 he was awarded the Stockholm Water Prize
in recognition of his contribution to water science and water policy.
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