Charting achievements: a two-year retrospective of the society for environmental geochemistry and health (SEGH) and the evolving strategies

A Argyraki; M J Watts; M Abdou; W Ahmad; F F Ajayi; T An; M Barbieri; J K Biswas; M Gaberšek; G Gibson; M Z Hashmi; O S Humphrey; A S Hursthouse; B Kaninga; T A Laniyan; C E Monteiro; O Morton-Bermea; J Olajide-Kayode; A S Olatunji; F Onyangore; O Osano; S Potgieter-Vermaak; C Prater; D Purchase; K Torrance

doi:10.1007/s10653-024-02015-1

Charting achievements: a two-year retrospective of the society for environmental geochemistry and health (SEGH) and the evolving strategies

Environ Geochem Health. 2024 Jun 7;46(7):242. doi: 10.1007/s10653-024-02015-1.

Authors

A Argyraki¹, M J Watts², M Abdou³, W Ahmad⁴, F F Ajayi⁵, T An⁶, M Barbieri⁷, J K Biswas⁸, M Gaberšek⁹, G Gibson¹⁰, M Z Hashmi¹¹, O S Humphrey², A S Hursthouse¹², B Kaninga¹³, T A Laniyan¹⁴, C E Monteiro¹⁵, O Morton-Bermea¹⁶, J Olajide-Kayode¹⁷, A S Olatunji⁵, F Onyangore¹⁸, O Osano¹⁹, S Potgieter-Vermaak²⁰, C Prater²¹, D Purchase²², K Torrance²³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Geology and Geoenvironment, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece. argyraki@geol.uoa.gr.
² Inorganic Geochemistry, British Geological Survey, Keyworth, UK.
³ University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.
⁴ School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
⁵ Department of Geology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
⁶ Guangdong University of Technology (GDUT), Guangzhou, China.
⁷ Sapienza Universita di Roma, Rome, Italy.
⁸ Department of Ecological Studies and International Centre for Ecological Engineering, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, India.
⁹ Geological Survey of Slovenia Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
¹⁰ Gibson Consulting and Training, Oxted, UK.
¹¹ Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan.
¹² University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, UK.
¹³ Zambia Agriculture Research Institute, Mount Makulu Central Research Station, P/B 7, Chilanga, Zambia.
¹⁴ Environmental Health Sciences Department, Faculty of Public Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
¹⁵ Department of Chemical Engineering, Centro de Química Estrutural, Institute of Molecular Sciences, Instituto Superior Técnico -University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
¹⁶ Instituto ed Geofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico.
¹⁷ Department of Geological Sciences, Osun State University, Osogbo, Nigeria.
¹⁸ Department of Public Health, School of Health Science, University of Kabianga, Kericho, Kenya.
¹⁹ Department of Environmental Biology and Health, School of Environmental Studies, University of Eldoret, Eldoret, Kenya.
²⁰ Department of Natural Science, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK.
²¹ Arkansas Water Resources Center, College of Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AK, USA.
²² Faculty of Science and Technology, Middlesex University, London, UK.
²³ University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK.

PMID: 38849707
DOI: 10.1007/s10653-024-02015-1

Abstract

Emerging from the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is time to ground ourselves and retrospectively assess the recent achievements of SEGH over the past years. This editorial serves as a comprehensive report on the progress made in comparison to the aspirations and goals set by the society's board in 2019 (Watts et al., Environ Geochem Health 42:343-347, 2019) (Fig. 1) and reflects on the state of the SEGH community as it reached its 50th anniversary at the close of 2021 (Watts et al. Environ Geochem Health 45:1165-1171, 2023). The focus lies on how the SEGH community navigated through the extraordinary challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic since early 2020, and to what extent the 2023 targets have been met.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

COVID-19* / epidemiology
Environmental Health
Humans
Retrospective Studies
SARS-CoV-2
Societies, Scientific