POST CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Thursday 17 September 2026
The below workshop will take place on Thursday 17 September and held at the Adelaide Convention Centre the day after the Clean Up 2026 Conference. Please see details below.
Post Conference Workshop Fee
HALF DAY WORKSHOPS: $375
Workshop registration fees are in Australian dollars and inclusive of GST.
Workshop tickets are charged per person and are not included in registration fees and are an additional expense.
| WORKSHOP 11: Faster, Better, Cheaper: Introduction to Risk-Based
Investigation Methods | |
| Thursday 17 September 2026 Location: City Rooms, Adelaide Convention Centre | |
HALF DAY Time: 9:00pm - 12:00pm | Audience: Regulators, Consultants, Hydrogeologists, Risk Assessors, Computer Modelers Why Attend? Attend this workshop to understand how modern approaches to environmental investigation and risk assessment can reduce time, cost and uncertainty. It offers practical insights into systematic planning, Decision Units, and Multi Increment sampling, supported by real-world examples. You will gain tools to improve data quality and make faster, more confident decisions for site assessment and remediation. Topics:
Reference: crcCARE, 2024, Risk-Based Investigation of Environmental Contamination: Technical Report series, No. 48 August 2024 (and updates). https://crccare.com/technical-reports/ Instructor: Roger Brewer Roger Brewer worked for twenty years as a senior environmental scientist and risk assessment specialist with the Hawai’i Department of Health and now works as an independent consultant. His experience includes application of Pierre Gy’s Theory of Sampling to environmental investigations; risk-based characterization of environmental media using “Decision Unit” and “Multi Increment Sample” (DU-MIS) methods (aka “Incremental Sampling Methodology”); contaminant fate and transport; vapor intrusion and human health and ecological risk assessment. He has extensive experience in the assessment of environmental contamination associated with petroleum fuels, solvents, heavy metals and pesticides and the remediation and redevelopment of industrial properties. Current areas of focus include environmental risks associated with PFAS contamination of fire training areas, domestic and industrial wastewater and sludges and uptake of PFASs into food crops. He has worked as an environmental consultant in the North America, South America, East and South Asia and Oceana. He also worked as a senior geologist and environmental risk assessment specialist with the California Environmental Protection Agency. His academic background includes a PhD in geology and post-doctoral research at Nanjing University in China. |