01 May 2025
The CIWEM Republic of Ireland branch are delighted to welcome Leila Bowe and Helen Burke who will present this webinar about Poly- and Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS).
Leila Bowe won the CIWEM Republic of Ireland branch sponsored “Best Water Related Presentation” prize at the 2024 ESAI ENVIRON conference and will discuss an Irish case study of the River Liffey, looking at PFAS from source to sink.
Leila will be joined by her colleague Helen Burke, whose Doctoral research also focuses on PFAS. Helen will provide insights from her research on PFAS sample collection, extraction and analysis.
CIWEM members and non-members are welcome to attend this webinar.
If you would like to find more about PFASs and CIWEM’s position on this topic, please take a look at the recent CIWEM Policy Position Statement on PFAS risk and management in the water industry
Part of the CIWEM Environmental Quality and Pollution series.
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Leila Bowe graduated from University of New South Wales, Australia with a BEng. in Environmental Engineering in 2019. Leila has since worked in leading industry consultancies in Australia and Ireland, specialising in contaminated land and water management Leila is currently completing a MSc. in Environmental Chemistry by Research with the Dublin City University (DCU) Water Institute. Her research is part of an EPA-funded project on identifying sources, pathways and environmental risks associated with PFAS in Ireland
Helen Burke
Helen Burke graduated from DCU in 2022 with a BSc. in Environmental Science and Technology. Helen is currently carrying out PhD research as part of the EPA-funded INVEST pFASST project which aims to address the challenges posed by PFAS contamination in Ireland. Helen’s research is focused on establishing an analytical method to determine the concentration of target PFAS across a number of matrices to permit investigations of environmental PFAS trends.
This event is open to members and non-members of CIWEM. The webinar is hosted on the Zoom platform and will be recorded.
Please register your place by clicking on the registration button. Non-members who have not registered for the CIWEM system can create an account on the booking page in order to reserve their place. This should not take more than two minutes.
If you have any questions about your booking or would like to cancel your attendance, please contact barbara.woods@ciwem.org.
Please note that registrations will close at 09:00 the day of the event. If you have not registered before that time, unfortunately we cannot add you to the event.
If you have any queries about this talk, please contact Laura Foley at foleyl1@tcd.ie.
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