Environmental odour is a major concern of residents in the vicinity of odour sources. The 2nd Chinese-Austrian Workshop on Environmental Odour, will be held from 20 - 21 September 2016 at the Tongji University in Shangai, China. The deadline for the Call for Abstracts has been set to 31 May 2016.

  The workshop will include the characterization of the odour source by emission factors and emission models, the use of dispersion models to describe the transport and dilution in the atmosphere, the assessment of the relevant stimuli concentration and the odour impact criteria. This event is organized under the auspices of the Eurasia-Pacific Uninet  

   60 presentations and 306 people attending the event was the successful balance of the 9th Conference of the Water Environmental Federation, this time at the Wisconsin Center in Milwaukee. The Chairs of this conference were Neil Webster from Webster Environmental Associates, Inc and Carla Dillon from the Orange County Sanitation District, and the steering committee was formed by Richard Pope, Chris Hunniford and Philip Wolstenholme.

   A new and interesting conference mobile app was very helpful to track activities, presentations, events and meetings, making it easier to program visits to the 36 booths they got this year. We will be updating our growing directory list for odor abatement solutions to include the newest solutions to manage odors.