CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Dublin Plant Protection Symposium

Online, 2023 (organised by Kerona Scientific Ltd, Ireland)

Oral presentation given: “The New EFSA Guidance for Birds and Mammals Risk Assessment”

Ecological Risk Assessment of Plant Protection Products: current status and future developments (course)

University of Coimbra, Portugal, 2022

Oral presentation: “Environmental risk assessment for bees”

SETAC Europe conference

Copenhagen, Denmark, 2022

Poster presentation: “Secondary poisoning of birds and mammals via benthic invertebrates: initial evaluation of this pesticide risk assessment as found in the draft EFSA birds and mammals guidance (September 2021)”.

CRD Environmental Risk Assessment Research meeting

Birmingham, UK, 2015.

Oral presentation given: “Higher tier lagomorph risk assessment”.

Fresenius Ecotox conference

Cologne, Germany, 2013.

Oral presentation given: “2013 EFSA bee guidance– an industry view”.

AgChem Forum

Barcelona, Spain, 2011.

Oral presentation given: “Beeing political: an industry view on bee politics”.

Covance Environmental Risk Assessment Symposium

Brussels, Belgium, 2011.

Oral presentation given: “An example of a state-of-the-art bird and mammal field study package (chlorpyrifos)”.

SETAC ESCORT 3 meeting

Zuiderduin, The Netherlands, 2010.

Poster presentation given in association with the BART group, and adapted for inclusion in the Proceedings: “Proposal for an NTA scheme for non-spray products applied to soil”.

“ENT05” –Royal Entomological Society National Meeting

Falmer, UK, 2005.

Two oral presentations given:

1. “The behaviour of individual airborne ballooning spiders: the effects of posture and silk”.

2. “The behaviour of individual airborne ballooning spiders: automated capture of data and images”.

“Environmental risk assessment workshop and school”

Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, 2004.

Oral presentation given: “Regulatory ecological risk assessment for pesticides in Europe”.

"Pest Management - Towards the Millenium" 

Welsh Pest Management Forum, Gregynog, Powys, 1997. 

Oral presentation given: "Pesticides and beneficial insects".

Post-graduate Conference

Biology Department, University of Southampton, 1992. 

Oral presentation given: "Why do spiders balloon?"

"The Fourth International Behavioural Ecology Congress" 

Princeton University, Princeton, USA, 1992. 

Oral presentation given: "Why do spiders balloon? Evolutionary and behavioural aspects of this phenomenon".

"Biology in Europe after 1992" 

Institute of Biology conference, University of Southampton, April 1992. 

Poster presentation given: "The possible causative factors of aeronautic behaviour in spiders".

Also involved in preparation of, and named on, many additional poster and oral presentations given by others in the field of regulatory ecotoxicology.