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News from the ECG, 2022 Chair's report

Rowena Fletcher-Wood
Freelance science communicator
[email protected]
 
In 2022, the ECG saw the return to in person events, although hybrid meetings  and webinars continue, allowing us to  reach a diverse audience. We now meet  as a committee both in person and online,  to lower our environmental impact and  increase our geographic diversity. 

The  ECG  is  pleased  to  welcome  four  new  committee  members:  Dr  Kiri  Rodgers  (University  of  the  West  of  Scotland),  whose  interests  lie  in  geochemistry,  and  has  been  contributing  to  our  diversity  initiatives;  Symiah  Barnett (Loughborough University), who works on plastics  pollution,  and  has  previously  contributed  to  our  outreach  efforts; Dr  Sebastian Diez  (University of York) is an  atmospheric chemist, and made a major contribution to the  organisation of #EnvChem2022 this year; Dr Helena Rapp  Wright (Imperial College London), studies drug analysis in  water,  and  joins  the  committee  after  speaking  at  #EnvChem2021,  and  supporting  #EnvChem2022.  In  addition, Niall  Marsay,  Cranfield  University,  has  been  co opted  onto  the  committee  to  act  as  Outreach  Lead,  representing us at IF Oxford 2022. 
We say goodbye to our secretary, Professor Steve Leharne (University  of  Greenwich),  who  leaves  after  seven  years,  during  which  time  he  commissioned  the  Bulletin  Briefs acted as an editor, organised numerous events, and acted as  an  extremely  organised  Secretary.  Professor  Dominik  Weiss  (Imperial  College  London),  our  Bulletin  production  editor  and  DGL  co-convenor  leaves  after  five  years  of  service.  Laura  Alcock  takes  on  the  position  of  Secretary,  David Owen Briefs co-ordinator, and Caroline Gauchotte Lindsay production editor and Vice Chair. Dr Roger Reeve,  after  16  years’  service  and  a  year-long  handover,  joins  us  for  the last  time in March. His contributions have included  establishing  event  series  such  as  Analysis  of  Complex  Matrices and Bulletin editing. 
In 2022, the committee organised five events, including our  flagship  events  #EnvChem2022  (hybrid)  and  the  Distinguished  Guest  Lecture Disposable  Attitude:  Electronics in  the  Environment  (in  person,  pp.  5-7,  22-29).  We  ran  two  webinars,  3B’s  in  Circular  Economy  (7th  September)  jointly  with  the  Management  Group,  and  Plastics:  Cradle  to  Grave  and  Resurrection  III (15th  June)  with  RSC  Toxicology,  and  Food  Groups,  and  the  Society  of  Chemical  Industry,  led  by  Innovate  UK  Knowledge  Transfer  Network  –  a  recording  is  available.  Circular  Chemistry;  the  enabler  to  help  solve  global  challenges (hybrid)  ran  joint  with  the  Applied  Materials  Chemistry Group and DEFRA  (30th November)  (pp. 8-10),  and the ECG attended three outreach events. Unfortunately,  
our  popular  event  State  of  the  Art  in  the  Analysis  of  Complex  Environmental  Matrices  was  cancelled  due  to  rail strikes, but is replaced   by a series of seminars to take  place in January and February 2023 (p. 32). 
Overall events: 
• ~250 attendees 
• ~150 meaningful outreach engagements 
• 51 oral presentations 
• 2 round table discussions 
• 23 posters 
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Our  website  has  also  seen  nearly  11,000  unique  visits January-October 2022, including a spike of interest in April,  which may be  the result of a school project! Most  (~93%)  of  viewers  come  through  Google,  and  our  most  popular  page  is  a  2007  article  on  climate  change,  methane  and  ozone, followed by Environmental Briefs. 

A survey of our 2022 membership has shown that ECG has  3,248  members,  representing  all  ages,  including  one  member over 100(!). The gender breakdown is 69% male,  30%  female,  and  0.2%  non-binary  –  in  line  with  RSC  general  membership  data  (1).  Results  also  show  that  members tend to maintain their commitment to the ECG for  decades – two for between 76 and 80 years.
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Members ages
References 
1. Day, A. E.,  Corbett P. ,  Boyle J. (2020). Is there a gender  gap in chemical sciences scholarly communication?  Chemical science, 11, 2277-2301. https://doi.org/ 10.1039/C9SC04090K 
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      • Professional Qualifications
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    • 2024 Killer Threads >
      • Thomas Stanton
      • Raquel Prado
    • 2023 Water, water, everywhere – is it still safe to drink? The pollution impact on water quality >
      • Rivers of life
      • Fiona Regan
    • 2022 Disposable Attitude: Electronics in the Environment >
      • Steve Cottle
      • Ian Williams
      • Fiona Dear
    • 2019 Radioactive Waste Disposal >
      • Juliet Long
    • 2018 Biopollution: Antimicrobial resistance in the environment >
      • Andrew Singer
      • Celia Manaia
    • 2017 Inside the Engine >
      • Frank Kelly
      • Claire Holman
      • Jacqui Hamilton
      • Simon Birkett
    • 2016 Geoengineering >
      • Alan Robock
      • Joanna Haigh
      • David Santillo
      • Mike Stephenson
    • 2015 Nanomaterials >
      • Eugenia Valsami-Jones
      • Debora F Rodrigues
      • David Spurgeon
    • 2014 Plastic debris in the ocean >
      • Richard Thompson
      • Norman Billingham
    • 2013 Rare earths and other scarce metals >
      • Thomas Graedel
      • David Merriman
      • Michael Pitts
      • Andrea Sella
      • Adrian Chapman
    • 2012 Energy, waste and resources >
      • RAFFAELLA VILLA
      • PAUL WILLIAMS
      • Kris Wadrop
    • 2011 The Nitrogen Cycle – in a fix?
    • 2010 Technology and the use of coal
    • 2009 The future of water >
      • J.A. (Tony) Allen
      • John W. Sawkins
    • 2008 The Science of Carbon Trading >
      • Jon Lovett
      • Matthew Owen
      • Terry barker
      • Nigel Mortimer
    • 2007 Environmental chemistry in the Polar Regions >
      • Eric Wolff
      • Tim JICKELLS
      • Anna Jones
    • 2006 The impact of climate change on air quality >
      • Michael Pilling
      • GUANG ZENG
    • 2005 DGL Metals in the environment: estimation, health impacts and toxicology
    • 2004 Environmental Chemistry from Space
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