Site Characterisation & Risk Assessment

Tailings are a substantial solid waste produced during mining – requiring extensive engineering design, assessment and management to achieve environmentally safe storage. There have been, however, some severe tailings dam failures in recent years – leading to difficult questions about how...

Use of Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) for various aerial applications continues to increase, as does the number of UAS operators/ organisations conducting these. Associated airframes can range from the sub 2kg (excluded category) to those above 150kg, bringing with them different and various levels...

Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) have been widely used in numerous applications since the 1950s, including aqueous film forming foams (AFFFs) used for fire suppression at airports, firefighting training facilities, and other industrial locations.  Many sites host ecological...

This session is a case study in what can go wrong even when all the boxes appear to have been “ticked” in your desk study information checklist.  We will go through the desk study information which proves that hindsight is 20/20 and then also summarise the site works and remediation undertaken...

“Poorly planned and executed site characterisation is likely to result in additional expense, both during the investigation and subsequent remediation, and inadequate or misleading data may also result in an increased risk to human health and the environment.” (CRC CARE Technical Report 11). In...

This ALGA webinar will introduce Incremental Sampling Methodology (ISM) as a tool for improved site characterisation, focusing on the practical application of Pierre Gy’s “Theory of Sampling” and his use of “Decision Units” to drive more effective and efficacious approaches to sampling. The US...

Drones, satellites, and the data they collect are becoming a prevalent part of environmental monitoring and characterization. Recent developments in computer vision and artificial intelligence, combined with Ramboll’s extensive domain knowledge in site characterization, allow us to identify those...