WEBINAR - Planning for What Data you Need and What is it Telling you Once you Have it?

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What would good look like? Learning to love quality assurance and quality control in site contamination investigations.

Conducting a robust investigation is a lot more than collecting a couple of duplicate samples and doing a hotspot calculation. As Dave will argue, treating your QAQC as tick-box exercises is the last thing you’d want to do. QAQC should develop naturally from the conceptual site model, and accordingly it should never be a chore or an option.

Once you have your data, what can you infer from it and what can you not? Peter will discuss the pitfalls of data interpretation, robust geostatistical analysis principles and how utilizing this knowledge can inform investigation planning and save you from future headaches.

Dr Dave Bull,
HAIL Environmental

Dave is a Kiwi who is fond of dirt. He was trained as a chemist but eventually escaped into the wild. He is a director of boutique site contamination specialist consultancy HAIL Environmental and on the board of the Waste Management Institute New Zealand. Dave has a lot of opinions about contaminated land theory and regulation, naturally occurring 'contaminants', and technical details like the bioavailability of arsenic and which way round to hold an XRF.

Dr Peter Beck,

GHD

Peter is a Senior Technical Director at GHD with over 30 years’ experience in environmental assessments, remediation and statutory auditing of contaminated sites. Peter’s experience is truly global and includes projects in Australia, Malaysia, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, UK and USA.

Peter specialises in statistics, hydrogeology and hydro-geochemistry. He has published and presented more than 50 papers at national and international conferences and is the author of several national and international guidelines, including for the Taiwan EPA Fate & Transport Guidelines and NSW EPA Sampling Design Guidelines. Peter also currently lectures at RMIT University and is involved in a number of research projects.