Welcome to the first INEF Bulletin! This biannual bulletin will keep you informed of INEF activities and provide a forum for members to share research and information. This would not be possible without the support of INEF members, so if you have any articles or information that you wish to share, please let us know!​        

INEF 2015 Conference Report

Conference Chair, Eric Reiner, reflects on the successes of INEF 2015 and student delegates report on their research and conference experience.

Sixty years since the 1956 Clean Air Act: are we really doing enough to reduce air pollution?​

Ben Williams (UWE, England)

Aerotoxic syndrome, an ongoing environmental forensics investigation

Jean-Christophe Balouet (Environnement International, France) and David Megson (University of Toronto, Canada)

Pushing Environmental Analysis to the Next Dimension

Adam Ladak and Lauren Mullin
(Waters Corporation, U.S.A) 

Interview with an Expert

Stephen Mudge discusses how he became involved with environmental forensics.

Upcoming Events and News

INEF 2016

This year the 6th International Network of Environmental Forensics conference will be held in Örebro, Sweden on June 27-30, 2016. The scientific program will contain talks by invited leading scientists as well as talks selected from the participants’ submitted abstracts. Young scientists are especially encouraged to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations. Several travel grants of up to £500 will be available to support students who are RSC members. Abstract submissions are due by March 1st and registration opens on February 15th. For more information, visit www.inef2016.com. 

Proceedings of the 2015 International Network of Environmental Forensics conference

Thank you to all those who produced manuscripts for the 2015 INEF proceedings. The peer reviewed and accepted papers are being published in the Journal of Environmental Protection Vol. 7 No. 3 which will be available before the end of February. This is an open access journal so all papers are available to view and download for free here. 

Send us your INEF Conference Photos!

We are currently in the process of collating a collection of photos from our previous INEF conferences which we will post on our website. Please send us your photos (or “arty snaps”) from previous INEF conferences so that we can build a fun collection and record of our past events. Before submitting photos, please make sure to get permission from the person in it. Submit your photos to David Megson at david.megson@ontario.ca.