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ATMOS Global ™ (ATMOS Australia Pty Ltd – Elite Atmospheric Air Quality Modelling & Forecasting and Climate Change Research Consultants ™) launches globally its revolutionary Air Quality and Climate Change Academy ™ a highly specialized and workplace specific air quality and climate change training and learning portal that offers ATMOS Global’s industrial clients, with operations located anywhere in the world, an opportunity to keep up to date with leading edge concepts and practices associated with addressing air quality management, dust management and climate change related challenges important to the mining, manufacturing and energy industries.
The radical transformation of the world and current workplace diversity and mobility trends have led to an increased demand for ‘learning by doing’ training services that meet the learners’ needs for flexibility by providing direct access to information relevant to their work environment when they need it in real life situations.
Dr Orestis Valianatos, the Global President and Chief Executive Officer of ATMOS Global, said that “ATMOS Global’s Air Quality and Climate Change Academy ™ aims to be a leader in the Digital Education Revolution, a new concept of learning that helps our clients deal with the current far-reaching changes in our economic and technological landscapes. It shifts the learning and development paradigm to a performance improvement process”.
“While responding to our clients’ need for profound practical understanding of the key contemporary air quality management, dust management and climate change challenges surrounding their operations, ATMOS Global’s Air Quality and Climate Change Academy also opens the door to an optimal learning structure that closes the learning-doing gap by providing our clients with a hands-on approach to understanding and mastering the use of ATMOS Global’s world’s first advanced air quality management and dust management platforms ATMOS-5D ™, ATMOS-5D+ ™, DustAlert ™ and DustAlert+ ™ that operate in the forecasting service framework provided by ATMOS Global’s Center for Global and Site Specific Dust Impact Forecasting, Management and Control ™“ he said.
The Air Quality and Climate Change Academy is an ’add-on’ to ATMOS Global’s elite air quality management, air quality forecasting, dust management, dust impact forecasting™ and climate change services. ATMOS Global’s Air Quality and Climate Change Academy is an innovative instructional platform for delivering information and knowledge using an expert training architecture that integrates formal and informal learning and uses the best process and technology to deliver timely and engaging learning solutions and provide real-time answers to employees’ work-related enquiries.
ATMOS Global’s Air Quality and Climate Change Academy ™ innovative workplace training services have been used for a mining project nominated as a finalist (jointly with ATMOS Australia) for one of the most prestigious awards for environmental excellence in Australia.
Prospective client companies with active/proposed mining operations that are interested in learning more about ATMOS Global’s Air Quality and Climate Change Academy ™ are invited to contact our friendly ATMOS Global’s Air Quality and Climate Change Ambassadors ™ for further information and a confidential phone consultation by visiting our new website: www.atmosglobal.com.
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Dr Orestis Valianatos is the Global President and CEO of ATMOS Global (ATMOS Australia Pty Ltd). He has extensive experience and an influential global perspective in the fields of atmospheric and air quality forecasting (model/system developer and user), education and strategic corporate advisory services. Entrepreneur and agent of change, he has authored more than 50 ground breaking air quality research publications (internationally published). In 1999, Dr Valianatos initiated an ongoing successful journey to pioneer, encourage and support the use of advanced 3D dispersion modelling, numerical weather prediction and air quality forecasting concepts and techniques for the day to day understanding and management of complex air quality issues for the mining, manufacturing and energy industries.
ATMOS Global (ATMOS Australia Pty Ltd) is a wholly Australian owned leading global strategic consulting company specializing in the provision of advanced innovative atmospheric, air quality modelling & forecasting and climate change services. We have been developing and pioneering advanced three dimensional (3D) Numerical Weather Prediction and complex air quality modelling & forecasting tools to deliver accurate air quality management solutions for the mining, manufacturing and energy industries for almost two decades.
For further information please contact:
Dr Orestis Valianatos
Global President and Chief Executive Officer
ATMOS Global ™ (ATMOS Australia Pty Ltd)
Phone: +61-1300-69-28667 (+61-1300-MY-ATMOS)
Email: [email protected]
www.atmosglobal.com
