Courses

An understanding of meteorology is essential for air quality practitioners. This course will outline key meteorological concepts and apply them to air quality applications. You will use information from this course to inform decisions for siting of air quality monitoring stations, choosing representative data for air quality modelling, preparation of model input files and undertaking meteorological modelling. As an air quality expert you need to know the impact of terrain, inversions, boundary layer height, proximity to water etc. on the dispersion and transport of pollutants. This course covers these topics and more in four 2-hour online webinars throughout October. This course will include discussion topics, optional homework exercises and case studies. Early bird registration available to 3 August 2018.

How do you monitor for ambient particulate matter? Which method should be used? How long should the monitoring program run for? How many measurement points are appropriate? This course answers all these questions in an intensive one-day training program. The course is supplemented by a tour of the Department of Water and Environment Regulation (DWER) air monitoring workshop where course participants will view instruments, calibrations, sample media and monitoring station commissioning activities. Significant early bird discounts available until 10 August 2018.

This course provides an introduction to odour control and design equipment. Dr Ian Evanson, Principal Process Engineer, will present training on odour capture and containment, biofilters and bio trickling filters, adsorption and packed media systems. The course is complemented by exercises illustrating useful calculations. Early bird registration available to 20 July 2018.

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together the black carbon monitoring community and provide a forum for discussing and advancing this field in Australia and New Zealand. We are aiming for a technical discussion which will make use of the experience and expertise of Mr Jeff Blair, AethLabs, California and Dr Ivan Iskra, Aerosol, Ljubljana, Slovenia.