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NEUTRON MOISTURE AND PORTABLE GAUGING RADIATION SAFETY COURSE
27 - 28 May, 2008
The course is appropriate for portable radiation gauges. The nature of hazards is outlined, how protection might best be afforded, appropriate working techniques to minimize the radiation dose and administrative arrangements and legal obligations.
The course has been approved by the Radiological Council in Western Australia and fulfils the necessary training requirements for operators portable radiation gauges in Western Australia under the Radiation Safety Act WA 1975. To use a gauge a person must have a license or be supervised by a licensed person must be immediately on hand in the field or during transport of the gauge. A test concludes the course. A pass mark of at least 65% is required.
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Contact: Jonathon Thwaites on mobile 0419 924 355
Course Notes: Will be provided prior to the course
Cost: $800 + $80
ICT Latin American Distributor Training Workshop
In March 2006 ICT International conducted a very successful Latin American distributor training workshop in Santiago Chile. Distributors from Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia and Argentina attended the 5 day workshop where they received detailed theoretical and practical training on the ICT range of Meteorological, Plant and Soil Science instruments.
The products of most interest for all distributors were the exciting new sensors manufactured by ICT International for measuring reverse sapflow (HRM), Plant Water Potential (Stem Hygrometer) and soil pore water conductivity (soil salinity sensor). These sensors are unique to ICT International and when combined with the ICT Smart Logger or FieldStation provide distributors with a user customisable solution to meet all of their customers research needs.
The highlight of the week long workshop was the practical session at the University of Talca where the distributors
commissioned a FieldStation for measuring sapflow in grapevines. Alvaro Arias of LAPACA said "Getting into the field and
actually taking real measurements with equipment was the big difference between the ICT International distributor training
and other manufacturers training workshops I have attended."Cecilia Jaunarena of Instrumentos del Sur S.A agreed that the ICT training format was very successful. "Learning the theory on how the instruments work is important because this is how we as distributors can work together with our customers to design solutions that meet their needs but, actually getting into the field and commissioning a real system, learning all the practical techniques of installation and setup is the key to providing our customers with substantial local support".
ICT International would like to thank all of the distributors for attending the workshop and helping to make it such a huge success. We look forward to continuing their development with more advanced training workshops planned in Australia over the next 12 months.
ICT International Establishes Weather Station Network in Cambodia
ICT working together with CARDI (Cambodia Agriculture Research Development Institute) has established the first phase of what will become the country's first and only National Weather Station Network.
The first phase was completed in December 2005 with the training of CARDI staff and commissioning of the main weather station infrastructure. In 2006 the network will be enabled with GSM wireless modems to link all the weather data from across the country to a central location at the main CARDI headquarters in Phnom Penh. Data will be downloaded daily and posted to a web site for access by all of CARDI's research staff. This project will be a major boost for all of CARDI's research projects and for the people of Cambodia as a nation.
CARDI staff training on ICT weather station.
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Hydrological Monitoring of Cover Systems on Mine-Wastes
Soil Science, Engineering Principles and Pragmatics
The Centre for Land Rehabilitation at The University of Western Australia
organised a Workshop on
Hydrological Monitoring of Cover Systems on Mine-Wastes
Soil Science, Engineering Principles and Pragmatics
The Workshop focused on the engineering principles of final cover systems for mining wastes and was particularly relevant to mining companies. The workshop was presented by top scientists and included demonstrations of monitoring equipment.
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Thursday, 15th December 2005 The University of Western Australia, Perth $525 incl. GST (discount for students) |
Download the Workshop Flyer (67 kB Word .doc file)
For further information and a registration form, please consult the CLR website http://www.clr.uwa.edu.au/ or contact the
Centre for Land Rehabilitation
School of Earth and Geographical Sciences M087
The University of Western Australia
Crawley WA 6009
Tel: 08 6488 3827
Email: clradmin@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Neutron Soil Moisture Density Gauging Course
Jonathon Thwaites ran a Neutron Soil Moisture Density Gauging Course on 5th and 6th December 2005. The course is approved by the Radiological Council as an appropriate training requirement for licencing in Western Australia.
Please contact:
Jonathon Thwaites
Medical and Scientific Services Pty Ltd
255 Marmion St
Cottesloe WA 6011
0419 924 355
www.sustainability.ofm.uwa.edu.au
jthwaites@admin.uwa.edu.au
Contact RADSMART for radiation training course information.
Newsletter Archive (downloadable PDF archive)
Probing Around 14 - Probe Service, Sapflow, Soil Water Sampling, Waveguide, Dataloggers, Hemiview, Digital Plant Canopy Analyser, Oxygen.
Probing Around 12 - Service Tips, Soil Moisture Extractors, ThetaProbe, Virrib Low Cost Soil Moisture Sensors, Products from Delta-T.
Probing Around 11 - Hydraulic Conductivity, Quantitherm, Digital Image Analysis, Waikerie Probe Service, Prenart Super Quartz Soil Samplers.
Probing Around 10 - Logging Soil Moisture, Fruit Size Gauges, Mini Weather Station, Landcare Groups, Linear PAR Meter, Vadose Sampling.
Probing Around 9 - Trase TDR, Understanding Time Domain Reflectometry.
Probing Around 8 - Thermocouple Psychrometers, Leaf Laser, Plant Canopy Analyser, Portable Photosynthesis, Gypsum Block.
Probing Around 7 - Hansatech, Convert, Electronic Transducers for Tensiometers, Books, Woodlots and Wetlands.
Probing Around 6 - Schollander Pressure Bomb, Chlorophyll Fluorescence, Cropscan Radiometer, Root and Soil Structure Analysis.
Probing Around 5 - Delta-T News, Trase Software, Sap Flow, Tube Solarimeters, Portable Spectroradiometer.
Probing Around 4 - Probe Software, Tensiometers, Portable Photosynthesis System, Salinity Multimeter.
Probing Around 3 - Probe Servicing, Multispectral Radiometers, Guelph Permeameter, Soil Compaction, Plant Efficiency Analyser, CoHort Software.
Probing Around 2 - Probe Software, Deep Drainage under Sprinkler, Soil Moisture in a Red Sealing Soil, SEC's Ceramics, Spectrometers and Oceanography.
Probing Around 1 - Software tips, Cotton Water, Turfgrass, Dynagage, Everest Interscience Ag-Multimeter, Delta-T Area Meter.
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