Cairns, Australia | Mon 31 Aug - Wed 2 Sept | 21st Century Challenges
Workshops
The 2026 conferences offer a range of Special Interest Group (SIG) workshops to be held on Sunday 30 August 2026. Please find details on them below.
Odour remains one of the most complex and community sensitive air quality challenges across Australia and New Zealand.
This full-day interactive workshop brings together leading practitioners, regulators, consultants, and researchers to examine odour from measurement through to modelling, regulation, and community impact.
Participants will explore:
- Odour dispersion modelling and interpretation
- Laboratory measurement techniques and standards
- Field measurement approaches and practical challenges
- Regulatory perspectives and real-world decision making
- Health impacts, including a detailed Swanbank case study
Lead SIG: Odour Special Interest Group
Proposed format: Full-day conference workshop with presentations, panels and activities
Dust management is changing. Expectations are shifting, tools are advancing, and the context in which dust is assessed and regulated continues to evolve.
This conference workshop brings together cross sector perspectives to examine what these changes mean in practice and how approaches to monitoring, mitigation, and compliance are adapting. The session marks the formal launch of the CASANZ Dust SIG and sets the direction for ongoing collaboration beyond the seminar series.
Lead SIG: Dust Special Interest Group
Proposed format: Half-day workshop with panel and interactive activities
Fire smoke is no longer a seasonal anomaly but an ongoing exposure challenge for communities across Australia and New Zealand. From large-scale landscape burning and extreme wildfire events to emissions from winter solid fuel heating, smoke impacts are increasingly shaping regulatory, health and community responses.
This workshop establishes the technical foundation for a future CASANZ series, examining how smoke exposure is estimated, interpreted and applied in policy and practice. It brings together expertise across modelling, monitoring and public health to support cross-disciplinary discussion on smoke exposure.
Lead SIG: Biomass Burning Special Interest Group
Proposed format: Half-day workshop combining technical presentations, cross-SIG discussion and structured synthesis
Curious about what’s really in the air when it comes to PFAS and emerging contaminants?
Join us for an expert-led half day workshop where science meets practice; and where sampling trains, analytical challenges, and regulatory pressures all come into sharp focus. Expect live demos, expert perspectives, and candid conversations about what’s needed to turn today’s measurement uncertainties into tomorrow’s standards.
Lead SIG: Measurement Special Interest Group
Proposed format: Half-day workshop: presentations, hands-on live demonstrations and panel discussion