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The IIES annual workshops typically focus around four general themes. The themes, however, are not all-inclusive, therefore people working in other areas are always welcome.

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

Under this theme, we focus on the relationships between people and their environment, promotion of human health and well-being, and maintaining healthy and safe communities.

ENVIRONMENTAL Policy

Under this theme, we focus on the commitment of organizations and government to the laws, regulations, and other policy mechanisms concerning environmental issues.

ENVIRONMENTAL Processes

Under this theme, we focus on processes related to the interaction of natural resources with humans and their environment.

GREEN & NOVEL TECHNOLOGY

Under this theme, we focus on technology and science that helps to reduce human impact on the natural environment.

PARTNER INSTITUTIONS

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ETH ZÜRICH

Switzerland

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FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE (FMI)

Finland

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HO CHI MINH CITY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (HCMUT)

Vietnam

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THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (HKUST)

China

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INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (IGCAS)

China

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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

United States of America

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KEELE UNIVERSITY

England

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South Korea

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NANJING UNIVERSITY

China

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National Institute of Science & Technology on Continent-Ocean Materials Transfer (INCT-TMCOcean)

Brazil

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Taiwan

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Singapore

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Norway

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SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY

China

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STATE KEY LABORATORY OF ENVIRONMENTAL CRITERIA AND RISK ASSESSMENT, CHINESE ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES (SKLECRA)

China

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SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY

China

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TRENT UNIVERSITY

Canada

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Canada

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France

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Chile

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Finland

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Scotland

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United States of America

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UNIVERSITY OF the Witwatersrand

South Africa

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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON

United States of America

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Faculty

Lenny Winkel

Assistant Professor of Inorganic Environmental Geochemistry and Research Group Leader
Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zurich and Eawag Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

Research Interests

  • Improved understanding of processes controlling the biogeochemical cycling of trace elements with important human-health impacts, from the organism to the global scale
  • To predict the effects of climate and environmental change on these processes and on broad-scale distributions of trace elements in the environment

Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)

Faculty

Research Interests

  • Atmospheric aerosols, air pollution and climate change
  • Aerosol-cloud interactions and cloud formation
  • Atmospheric icing
  • Atmospheric measurements: in-situ and remote sensing (e.g. lidars)
  • Aerosol transformation and health effects in collaboration with University of Eastern Finland

Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT)

Faculty

Research Interests

  • Natural water (bio)geochemistry
    • Monitoring and modelling water quality
    • Surface and groundwater pollution and remediation
    • Surface and groundwater interaction
    • Identification of water pollution sources and hydrogeochemical processes in natural waters by biogeochemical technology
    • Saltwater intrusion and management
    • Origin of groundwater
  • Geochemical change by management of artificial recharge
  • Applied technology such as modelling, GIS, and geophysics for water resources management
  • Land subsidence by groundwater extraction
  • Sustainable management of groundwater resources

Current Projects

  • Coastal water quality and assessment the resilience of coastal zone
  • Hydro(bio)geochemical processes controlling the fate of groundwater
  • Groundwater vulnerability assessment

Current Courses

  • Environmental monitoring
  • The geochemistry of natural waters
  • Water quality management

Research Interests

  • Research on the treatment of heavy metals in water by microorganisms
  • Study on the ability of enzyme synthesis of cellulase from Actinomyces griseus
  • Microorganic organic fertilizer
  • Isolating and identifying the ability to degrade antibiotic of microorganisms in hospital sewage
  • Study on biochip for determining E.coli in aquatic environment
  • Identification of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms in hospital wastewater
  • Monitoring of plant protection substances in water environment of national parks
  • Environmental monitoring by automated ship vehicle in combination with IoT

Research Interests

  • Water and wastewater treatment technology
  • Advanced oxidation process for wastewater treatment
  • Wastewater reuse technology

Research Interests

  • Chemical solutions to treat groundwater contaminated with heavy metals (e.g. arsenic)
  • The impact of human and natural factors on coastal zones
  • Correlation between arsenic content in groundwater and organic arsenic content in agricultural products
  • Mechanism of arsenic release in groundwater and sediment in the Mekong Delta
  • Origins and causes of arsenic contamination in groundwater
  • Impacts of climate change and human activities on water resources, cities and adaptation strategies for sustainable development.
  • Collection and utilization of rainwater for use in urban areas
  • Effects of climate change on the discharge, quality and saltwater intrusion capacity of the Saigon River and propose appropriate adaptation solutions
  • Classification and assessment of groups of climate change adaptation solutions and implementation experiences are being applied to different levels, sizes, specific geographical regions and development levels of the economy
  • Vulnerability and adaptation to climate change for water resources management in coastal cities of Southeast Asia

Research Interests

  • Effects of climate change on ecosystems and biological feedback on GHGs
  • Sustainable wastewater treatment
  • Desalination

Research Interests

  • Exhaust gas and indoor environment, and odours
  • Nanomaterials for water and wastewater treatment: adsorption, catalysis, photocatalysis, persulfate activation, electro-Fenton, heterogeneous Fenton, advanced oxidation processes for nutrients, organics, and contaminants of emerging concerns
  • Solid wastes as resources for preparation of bio-/nano-materials: rice husk, biochar, sludges from industry, and water/wastewater treatment

Research Interests

  • Solid waste engineering and management
  • Waste thermal and energy conversion technology (combustion, pyrolysis, and gasification
  • Green material technology (preparing adsorbent and catalyst from waste or biomass)
  • Air pollution control during thermal treatment methods
  • The migration, transformation and control of pollutants during treatment

Le Thi Huynh Tram

Researcher
Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources (FENR)

Research Interests

  • Application of microbiology in agriculture, environmental treatment and medicine.
  • Involvement of Protein O-mannosylstranferase on the secondary metabolite Sterigmatocystin in Aspergillus nidulans.
  • Application of molecular biology techniques in microbial phylogenetic analysis.

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

Institute for Circular Economy Development (ICED)

Faculty

Research Interests

  • Climate Change Adaptation
  • Circular Economy
  • Urban/Agriculture Transitioning and Sustainability
  • Social-Ecological System and Resilience
  • Nature-based Solutions

Johns Hopkins University

Faculty

Research Interests

  • Investigating physical-chemical processes controlling water quality (30 years experience)
    • Natural aquatic systems
    • Engineered processes (primary expertise in areas of contaminant transport and inter-phase mass transfer – i.e. sorption and gas transfer)
  • Lead investigator of a multi-university project focused on linking changing agricultural practices with water quality impacts to Chesapeake Bay
  • In his position as Executive Director of the Chesapeake Research Consortium (CRC), he is working faculty from the 6 major university members of the CRC and others (i.e., the federal, state, academic, and non-governmental organizations involved in the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership) to foster improved science-based management of estuarine systems and watersheds across the region and throughout the world

Keele University

Faculty

Research Interests

  • Environmental governance
  • Examining prefigurative grassroots action and the political institutions of a green state as part of the ESRC-funded Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity CUSP

Past Research Interests

  • The regeneration of urban brownfields, domestic energy conservation, and urban development

Research Interests

  • Explores the connections between party politics and climate policy
  • Particularly interested in progressive parties across Europe and how they are able to influence government and international climate mitigation policy

Research Interests

  • The behaviour, fate and bioavailability of contaminants in the environment
  • Nutrient fluxes in soil and aquatic systems
  • The use of novel, recycled materials in soil remediation
  • Terrestrial ecotoxicology

Research Interests

  • Education for Sustainable Development
  • Emergence of the discipline of sustainability science
  • Groundwater in glacial systems

Research Interests

  • Applying sclerochronology (which is similar to dendrochronology) to marine bivalves for the purposes of investigating marine environmental variability over the last ~200 years
  • Currently my research is being undertaken on the long-lived bivalve Arctica islandica from the fjords of N. W. Scotland

Research Interests

  • Impact of environmental change on glacial and permafrost environments
  • Glacial geomorphology and the reconstruction of past ice sheets
  • Interactions between glaciers and permafrost

Korea University

Faculty

Research Interests

  • Waste management
  • Bioavailability of emerging contaminants
  • Bioenergy and biochar
  • Fundamental soil science
  • Soil remediation

Nanjing University

Faculty

Research Interests

  • Wastewater biological treatment, including aerobic and anaerobic biological treatment technology
  • Advanced wastewater treatment and resourceful utilization of wastewater
  • Emerging contamination removal in wastewater treatment system
  • Enhancement technique of wastewater treatment under extreme conditions

Research Interests

  • Environmental behaviour of organic contaminants in natural soil environment
  • Transformation of contaminants monitored by in situ spectroscopic techniques

Research Interests

  • Bioavailability and toxicity of pollutants (e.g., trace metals and nanoparticles)
  • Nutrient limitation of the algal growth and eutrophication
  • Biogeochemical cycling of trace metals

Research Interests

  • Sustainable Energy Management and Energy/Environmental Policy Analysis
  • Synthesize both new and existing within-discipline researches to simulate energy systems under multiple uncertainties, assesses its sustainability, and demonstrates up-to-date case studies of multi-scales in both developing and developed nations
  • To fully support sustainable, low-carbon, climate-resilient development pathways for renewable energy, with global, regional and local considerations
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Research Interests

  • Analysis and research of the trace organic pollutants, focusing on establishing the determination method of trace organic compounds in various environmental matrix and their distribution
  • Chemical methods of pollution control, exploring the preparation of nanomaterials with visible light response and their application in the removal of the toxic and harmful organic compounds in water and air
  • Research on the remediation of contaminated soil
  • Application of agricultural non-point source pollution control techniques

Research Interests

  • Basin management
  • Environmental modelling and assessment
  • Ecological restoration in eutrophicated lake and reservoir

Research Interests

  • Design and preparation of environmental functional materials, catalytic degradation kinetics and mechanism of organic pollutants in aqueous solutions
  • Experiment study and practical application of AOPs

Research Interests

  • Environmental policy design
  • Pollution reduction
  • Climate change

Research Interests

  • Metal biogeochemistry and food safety
    • Geochemical and biological factors affect speciation, bioavailability, and bioaccumulation of metals (especially mercury)
    • Transfer of metals through the food chain & human exposure to metals through food consumption

National Institute of Science & Technology on Continent-Ocean Materials Transfer (INCT-TMCOcean)

Members

Recent Work

  • Numerical assessment of tidal potential energy in the Brazilian Equatorial Shelf
  • Brazil fosters fossil fuel exploitation despite climate crises and the environmental vulnerabilities
  • Editorial: The role of the South Atlantic on the interbasin and pole-to-pole connections

Research Interests

  • Environmental biogeochemistry and analytical chemistry
  • Fate and transport of nutrients, metals, and metalloids
  • Development of analytical tools for emerging contaminants
  • Applications of isotope composition to paleoenvironmental studies and forensic geochemistry

Recent Work

  • Effects of Simulated Ionospheric Scintillation on a π⁄3-BPSK Demodulator to Operate on UHF Satellite Communications
  • Digital Demodulator and Estimation of its Performance in UHF Transionospheric Link
  • Pattern recognition on FPGA for aerospace applications

Recent Work

  • Contributions from the main river of the largest open sea delta in the Americas to the CO2 fluxes
  • Investigation of physical properties and suspended particulate matter discharge in a macrotidal estuary at the Amazon-semiarid transition zone
  • Effects of climate, spatial and hydrological processes on shaping phytoplankton community structure and β-diversity in an estuary-ocean continuum (Amazon continental shelf, Brazil)

Emmanoel Vieira da Silva-Filho

Professor, Coordinator
Universidade Federal Fluminense, Department of Geochemistry, Researcher at the Operational Oceanography and Paleoceanography Laboratory (LOOP)

Research Interests

  • Geochemistry and Ecology, with an emphasis on Biogeochemistry
  • Working in coastal and offshore environments, mainly on the following topics: biogeochemical cycle of elements in tropical environments; trace metals; mercury, environmental and hydrogeochemical contamination

Short Bio

Prof. Dr. L.D. Lacerda is a Full Professor of the Federal University of Ceará, Brazil and Senior Researcher of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development. He is a Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC) and Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and the Future Earth Coasts Academy (FEC Academy). He serviced as a visiting researcher at the University of Hamburg, between 1986 and 1991 and at the Université de Toulon, France, between 1998 and 2006. He coordinates several national and international network programs and projects on Mangrove Ecology & Management, the biogeochemistry of the Continent-Ocean Interface.

Research Interests

  • Ecology
  • Biogeochemistry and environmental contamination of tropical ecosystems
  • Impact of global climate change on ecosystem biogeochemistry

He has authored 18 books and over 300 papers on the above topics.

Recent Work

  • Efficiency of essential oils in the control of the black bean aphid Aphis craccivora Koch (Hemiptera: Aphididae)
  • Adsorption of phosphate in aqueous solution by ash from the fruit peel of Caryocar coriaceum Wittm: adsorption characteristics and behavior
  • Water vulnerability to pesticide contamination in a Brazilian semiarid watershed

Carlos Eduardo de Rezende

Recent Work

  • Can species guilds act as hubs for energy transfer in macrophyte meadows of Amazonian floodplain lakes?
  • Stable isotopes and mercury as tools to depict aquatic food webs
  • Outwelling of reduced porewater drives the biogeochemistry of dissolved organic matter and trace metals in a major mangrove‐fringed estuary in Amazonia

Recent Work

  • Multidisciplinary network of coastal-ocean studies for monitoring, diagnosis and demobilization in the assessment of environmental resilience management in accidents involving oil spills at sea
  • Biogenic silica and carbon sequestration in the Antarctic region – biogeochemical balance of nutrients and climate change (SILICARBONCLIM)
  • Phosphorus in the water system: Fertilization or eutrophication of waters in coastal systems?
  • Biogeochemical and socio-environmental study of coastal ecosystems – Contribution to sustainability and environmental impact assessment – (BIOGEOQUIS-ECOS)

Recent Work

  • Analysis of ballistic fragments by means of micro ballistic examinations, determination of chemical composition and lead isotopic analysis: a review
  • Pulsed‐Laser‐Driven CO2 Reduction Reaction for the Control of the Photoluminescence Quantum Yield of Organometallic Gold Nanocomposites
  • Hydrogen and Oxygen Isotopes as Mass Proxies Along the South Atlantic Ocean

Recent Work

  • Trace metal partitioning in the parnaíba delta in dry season, equatorial coast of Brazil
  • Seasonal and spatial variability of CO2 emissions in a large tropical mangrove‐dominated delta
  • Evaluation of direct and indirect methods for measurement of pCO2 in estuarine environments

Recent Work

  • Analysis of the temporal variation of phosphorus load in the lower São Francisco River
  • Water Quality and Phosphorus and Nitrogen Flow in the Paraíba do Meio River (AL)
  • Spatio-Temporal Analysis of the Dredged Sediment Dispersion Plume from the Port of Maceió, Alagoas

Research Interests

  • Elucidate the organic matter and trace metal transfer in coastal zones, particularly in the sensitive mangrove ecosystems
  • Using optical properties, absorbance and fluorescence, improving the impact of anthropic stress like urbanization and contamination as well as impact of global climate change on their stability
  • Characterize and model organic matter and trace metals using fluorescence spectroscopy and electrochemistry

Recent Work

  • Change in the dynamics of salinity and water quality of an island estuary by the discharge of effluents
  • Marine Eutrophication: Overview from Now to the Future
  • Macroecological patterns of forest structure and allometric scaling in mangrove forests

Research Interests

  • Water and sanitation services in developing countries
  • Renewable energy
  • Nonmarket valuation of environmental resources and public goods
  • Household preferences for policies aimed to mitigate and adapt to climate change, sea level rise, and natural disasters

National Taiwan University

Faculty

Research Interests

  • Clean production technologies
  • Pyrolysis and incineration of solid wastes
  • Resource recovery and utilization of solid wastes
  • Green House Gases and Bio-energy
  • Air pollution control
  • Application of ozonation and advanced oxidation processes
  • Environmental nano-technology

Research Interests

  • Carbon capture and utilization
  • Formation and control of DBPs in drinking water
  • Formation and control of chloro- and volatile organic compounds by GAC/O3 and membrane processes
  • Effect of surface characteristics of activated carbons on VOC Absorption
  • Modelling VOCs Absorption onto activated carbon
  • Characteristics of air particulates and identification of its pollution sources

Research Interests

  • Water and wastewater treatment
  • Microwave-induced technologies
  • Environmental nanomaterials reduction and recycling of heavy metal-containing sludge
  • Soil and groundwater pollution control
  • Sustainable development indicators

Research Interests

  • Indoor air cleaning technology
  • Air toxics control technology
  • Biological aerosols cleaning technology
  • Application of using negative air ions for indoor air clean technology
  • Aerosols technology

Research Interests

  • Modelling the fate of trace organic pollutants in the environment
  • Transport and transformation of organics in soil and groundwater
  • Risk assessment for hazardous wastes and waste treatment
  • Analysis of trace pollutants in the environment
  • Management of ecological systems-reservoir

Research Interests

  • Immobilized biological treatment
  • Water purification by membrane technology
  • Photo-catalytic degradation of refractory organics

Research Interests

  • Integrated environmental management and sustainable transition
  • Industrial ecology and circular economy
  • Sustainable cities
  • Material flow analysis and sustainable material management
  • Life cycle assessment and management
  • Strategic environmental assessment

Research Interests

  • Trace analysis of organic contaminants in environmental matrix
  • Occurrence, fate and transport of emerging contaminants (i.e. pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs)
  • Endocrine-disrupting compounds (EDCs)
  • Perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) in the aqueous environments
  • Natural attenuation
  • Natural photodegradation of pharmaceuticals in the aqueous environment
  • Water reuse
  • Engineering treatment of emerging contaminants

Research Interests

  • Synthesis of porous and nanostructural adsorbents and catalysts for multipollutant (Hg/SOx/NOx/PCDD) control
  • Remediation of contaminated soils containing multi-pollutants
  • Speciation and Distribution of heavy metal in environmental media
  • Measurement of mercury and methylmercury in environmental media and biomarkers

Research Interests

  • The application of biotechnology in environmental engineering
  • The reduction of disinfection byproducts
  • Microbial ecology and metabolic response from micro-pollutant exposure

Research Interests

  • Application of environmental biotechnology in waste reuse technology and bioenergy development
  • Biogeochemical processes of urban and peri-urban ecosystems
  • Bioremediation and biodegradation of organic pollutants
  • Urban metabolism and material flow analysis of elements and compounds

Research Interests

  • Water quality in the distribution system
  • Lead and copper pipe corrosion
  • Ozonation and advanced oxidation processes
  • Surface chemistry of mineral
  • Characterization of natural organic matter

Research Interests

  • Capacitive deionization technology
  • Water-energy sustainable technology
  • Microbial fuel/desalination cells
  • Advanced nanoporous carbon materials: synthesis and fabrication
  • Modelling Simulation in Environmental Engineering

Norwegian Institute of Water Research (NIVA)

Faculty

Research Interests

  • Biogeochemistry of main elements, especially related to acid rain and its impacts on soils
  • Mercury and methylation processes in the boreal and temperate environment
  • Organic micro pollutants (POPs and emerging contaminants) and their effects on the eco-system and human health and links between climate change
  • Environmental policy regarding international convention (Stockholm convention and Minamata Convention)

Research Interests

  • Catchment modelling of phosphorus, DOC and organic contaminants
  • Ecological risk assessment
  • Mercury methylation and uptake in rice paddy ecosystem
  • Environmental policy on mercury (Minamata Convention)

Research Interests

  • Mercury bioaccumulation in fish
  • Boreal forest biogeochemistry
  • Arctic research and sampling

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Faculty

Research Interests

  • The development of nanomaterials for organic pollutants treatments
  • Environmental sensor as well as on the design of new strategies using nanomaterials for water splitting and CO2 reduction
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Research Interests

  • Advanced Noise Control Material and Structure
    • The novel soundproof material was prepared by similar ionic polymer structure design and the weighted sound reduction was 24dB with 1mm thickness
    • Based on the novel soundproof material, a new noise control structure was designed and applied to the highway noise control engineering in the shape of the noise barrier
    • By realistic measurement, the transmission loss of the barrier can reach 12dB with 6m height
  • Psychology and Physiology Study of Noise Signal
    • The different noise signals were simulated in term of sound characteristics
    • The subjective psychology assessment was carried out to analyze the effect of noise signal parameter
    • The object physiology index, especially brain activation index, were collected to study the relationship of psychology feeling and physiology reaction
  • Sound Quality Control of City Environment
    • A new type composite structure was developed by containing good sound absorption property and good sound diffusion property
    • The transmission loss of barrier with composite structure top can improve 10dB in the low frequency
    • According to the state standard, sound quality can be controlled by analyzing the city environment noise property
    • The relevant treatment and management policy were developed

Research Interests

  • Remediation and restoration of contaminated soils, waters, and wastes
  • Biological carbon sequestration technology and its eco-environmental effects
  • Interfacial processes and modelling of heavy metals in soils
  • Speciation, bioavailability, and human health of heavy metals
  • As a Principal Investigator (PI) and co-PI, Dr. Cao has been in charge of more than 20 projects which were supported by China NSFC, China MOST, USA DoA, and USA DoD

Research Interests

  • Ambient fine particles and haze pollution, including the formation mechanism of regional haze, and source apportionment of PM2.5 for urban China
    • The methods used consists of field aerosol observation, air quality model simulation as well as GIS analysis
    • Our group has set up an urban observation site in SJTU, including physical and chemical properties of particulate matter, meteorological factors
    • The WRF/CMAQ model has also been tested and performed for the source apportionment of heavy haze episodes, based on high parallel computing centre of SJTU
    • The long-term concentration datasets of ambient air pollutants from Chinese government has also been collected and analyzed

Yong Geng

Research Interests

  • Industrial ecology
  • Environment management
  • Climate change
  • Carbon emission accounting
  • Sustainable development

Research Interests

  • Industrial and municipal wastewater treatment engineering
  • Emerging contaminants environmental behaviour and control
  • Membrane technology research and applications

Research Interests

  • The design of green chemo-processes for biomass conversion
  • CO2 fixation and catalytic conversion
  • Organic synthetic chemical
  • Develop new chemical technologies and new equipment for the conversion of biomass/wastes and its derivatives into fuel, chemical and bio-based materials, and explore the new models for industrial application and promotion of developed technologies
  • Design new catalytic system for CO2 fixation and conversion to useful chemicals, such as formic acid, methanol, methane and lactones etc.
  • Develop new methods for the formation of biological active compounds via transition-metal catalyst or Lewis acid catalyst
  • Develop new methods for the synthesis of heavy metal adsorbent via modifying the magnetic carboxylated-rich carbonaceous materials

Research Interests

  • Improving global carbon cycle by mimicking nature
    • Hydrothermal conversion of biomass
    • Organic waste
    • CO2 into chemicals and fuels
    • Hydrothermal conversion of biomass/organic waste into value-added chemicals such as acetic acid, formic acid and lactic acid
    • The hydrothermal reduction of CO2 into chemicals and Fuel
    • Hydrogen production from biomass/waste
    • Photo-catalyzed reduction of CO2 into chemicals and fuel

Research Interests

  • Covers waste management on sustainable E-waste recycling
  • R&D of the environmental equipment, plastic recycling
  • Used lithium-ion battery recycling
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Research Interests

  • Synthesis of ultra-stable quantum dots and their applications (LED lighting, display, photocatalyst, and solar cell)
  • Ultraeffective nanocrystal sorbents for heavy metal removal
  • Synthesis of upconversion photocatalysts and their applications

Research Interests

  • Main objective is to reduce or eliminate persistent organics from water or soil
    • The method is to produce highly active radicals, such as hydroxyl radicals, by catalytic activation of O2 or H2O2 through approaches like photocatalysis or Fenton-like catalysis.
    • Exploring the mechanism on how to fabricate advanced functional materials with high catalytic activity, to understand the primary processes in the catalytic reactions, and to promote the applications of these materials and related technologies for water purification or soil remediation

Current Projects

    • Removing antibiotics and other organic micropollutants from water
    • Remediating polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons polluted soil

Research Interests

  • Marine renewable energy
  • The design of offshore foundations
  • In-situ testing, reinforced soil and tunnelling
  • The applications of numerical methods (both finite element analysis and other methods) to solution of geotechnical problems, and on the development of constitutive models for soils
  • Foundations for offshore wind turbines
  • The development of a novel tidal turbine for power generation

Current Projects

  • The understanding of tidal resources at every scale from single devices through to tidal basins

Research Interests

  • Water/wastewater treatment and reuse, membrane technology and integration process and nano-materials. Especially in the following areas:
    • Development of novel membranes such as multi-functional nanocomposite filtration membranes, superhydrophobic nanofibrous membrane distillation (MD) membranes, charged membranes, organic permselective membranes for extractive membrane bioreactor
    • Membrane surface modification for fouling control in water & wastewater treatments; modification of microporous membranes to enhance membrane surface hydrophobicity for MD
    • Development of integrated membrane processes for wastewater treatment and water reuse, such as polymer enhanced ultrafiltration for heavy metal removal, photocatalytic membrane reactor, membrane bioreactor
    • Development of novel membrane cleaning methods

Research Interests

  • The behaviour, fate, bioavailability, and effects of trace elements in the soil environment, with a view to improve ecological risk assessment and remediation of contaminated soils
  • The unraveling chemical and microbial processes that control the cycling of trace metals and to see how these processes are affected in the context of global climate change.
  • Overall, I strive to use my knowledge and skills to solve the myth of environmental toxicology and biogeochemistry of trace elements, and to address real world environmental problems that confront us

Research Interests

  • Reclaiming heavy metals from polluted soils/sludge, wastewater treatment models and software
  • Utilization methods of energy resources
    • A lot of toxic organics are produced and released into the environment each year. Their hazards and treatment techniques are always a heated topic. Advance chemical oxdation is an effective method and its test experiments are sufficient. The degradation of organics in oxidation process must take place under three main steps:
    • Oxiants (OH radical, O3 at all) closely approaching to organic molecule
    • Oxidants adding to active organic rings
    • Breaking down of the main or several interring chains and producing small compounds
    • Based on this oxidation mechanism and QSAR models, a “three-factor” mechanism of oxidation process is proposed. It is beneficial to predict the treatment effect or environmental degradation behavior of toxic organics.

Research Interests

  • Emerging contaminants, including environmental behaviours and fates, trace analysis, wastewater treatability, health effects and human exposure assessments of the antibiotics, bisphenol A, personal care products and algae toxins etc.
  • Studies on the adverse effects of mode organism and human cell exposed to low dose/environmental relevant concentration of emerging contaminants
    • The specified proteins, genes and molecular docking studies are carried on to understand the mode of action, gene-environmental interaction and epigenetics modification.
    • Indoor dust and human urine samples are being collected and analyzed to investigate the exposure risk and human disease associations

Research Interests

  • The detection of nanoparticles and emerging contaminants in the water environment, and their environmental implications, including their behaviour, fate, and biotoxicity
  • The asymmetrical flow field flow fractionation coupled with multi-angle light scattering (AF4-MALS), combining with ICP-MS or LC-MS-MS to separate the nanoparticles and identify and quantify pollutants carried by nanoparticles in the water
    • Our results show nanoparticles (<20nm) in the water carried a large amount of organic constitutes, and might get away from the water treatment process and exert the risk for the environment and human health
    • Manufactured carbon-based and metal, metal-oxide based nanomaterials are selected as model nanomaterials to study their biotoxicity on plankton and invertebrate animals by transcriptomic and metabolomic ananlysis
    • Our results show these nanomaterials form aggregates while entering the water, and their toxicities are complicated, depending their size, surface coating, and environmental factors
    • The transcriptomic and metabolomic analysis are effective methods to detect their biological effect at environmental relevant concentrations

Research Interests

  • Studying fluorescence immunoassay and real-time fluorescence quantitative immuno-PCR technique for determination of PCBs, PBBs, PBDE, PAHs, Phthalates, Chlorophenols, Estriol, Naphthos and so on at home and abroad

State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Academy of Environmental Studies (SKLECRA)

Faculty

Research Interests

  • Environmental quality criteria and standards
  • Risk assessment
  • Biogeochemistry

Sun Yat-Sen University

Faculty

Research Interests

  • Chemical-microbial-phyto- remediation of heavy metal polluted soils
  • Chemical remediation of sites polluted by metals and organic pollutants

Research Interests

  • Ecological restoration & phytoremediation of heavy metal/REEs polluted sites
  • Biogeochemistry of transition metals

Research Interests

  • Microbe-assisted phyto-remediation of heavy metal/POPs contaminated soils
  • Microbe-regulated biogeochemical process of heavy metal in contaminated soils

Research Interests

  • Environmental behavior: metal speciation, physico-chemical property of nanoparticles
  • Ecotoxicology: bioaccumulatuon and toxicity of metal and nanoparticles

Research Interests

  • Physicochemical water treatment processes including oxidation/reduction/disinfection processes
  • Environmental chemistry including radical chemistry, photo-chemistry and chlorine chemistry

Research Interests

  • Aquatic ecology and freshwater eutrophication of phytoplankton and zooplankton
  • Biodegradation and ecotoxicology of fluoroquinolone (FQs) antibiotics in mangrove ecosystems

Research Interests

  • Mechanisms for associations between human health and toxicants
  • Assessment of internal/external exposure to toxicants in contaminated sites

Research Interests

  • Microbial elelctrosynthesis system for organic fuels production from CO2 reduction
  • Acid mine drainage treatment using bioelectrochemical system

Research Interests

  • Sludge reduction, sludge treatment and sludge resource utilization
  • Municipal wastewater & industrial wastewater treatment
  • Rural sewage treatment

Research Interests

  • Bioremediation: microbial reductive dehalogenation
  • Microbial-mediated C-N-P-S metabolisms in wetlands
  • Water-energy nexus: core microbial community in methanogenic bioreactors

Research Interests

  • Plasma remediation of organic contaminated soil and MSW incineration fly ash
  • Direct Plasma for water disinfection: chemical, biological and environmental processes
  • Plasma technology for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) abatement

Research Interests

  • The sulfur-associated wastewater treatment such as sulfide-driven autotrophic denitrification by SOB, anaerobic organic removal by SRB and PPCP removal by SRB and SOB
  • High nitrogen- and organic-laden wastewater treatment such as landfill leachate treatment and kitchen wastes anaerobic digestate treatment

Research Interests

  • Removal of nitrogen and phospurous in municipal wastewater treatment
  • Research on emerging pollutants, including distribution, toxicity and remediation

Trent University

Faculty

Research Interests

  • The distribution of insects in Northern Ontario
  • Invasive species
  • Insect pest populations of beef and dairy farms

Research Interests

  • Environmental history
  • The history of science
  • The roles of science in environmental policy

Current Projects

  • The history of environmental science in the Canadian Arctic
  • The historical and contemporary roles of science in the salmon aquaculture industry
  • The history of conservation science in relation to global protected areas

Research Interests

  • Environmental biogeochemistry and analytical chemistry
  • Fate and transport of nutrients, metals, and metalloids
  • Development of analytical tools for emerging contaminants
  • Applications of isotope composition to paleoenvironmental studies and forensic geochemistry

Research Interests

  • Modelling the fate and bioaccumulation of persistent organic pollutants
  • Mercury in aquatic ecosystems and wildlife including marine mammals
  • Applying the above models for sight-specific risk assessments

Research Interests

  • Climate and energy policy
    • Particularly the planning and public engagement around low-carbon energy infrastructure
  • Community sustainability and community-based research

Research Interests

  • Biogeochemistry, speciation and fate of metals in the environment
    • Particular focus on mercury and nanoparticles
  • Use of stable isotopes, and measurement of fractionation and precise isotope ratios of heavy metals

Applied Research

  • Field work in whole ecosystem studies and instrumental analysis using state-of-the-art high resolution mass spectrometry

Tom Hutchinson

Professor Emeritus
Trent School of the Environment

Research Interests

  • Restoration and revegetation of acidic and toxic mine sites
  • Adaptations of plants to heavy metals
  • Acidity stress to air pollution including sulphur dioxide, ozone and acid rain
  • Ecology of tundra and boreal forests
  • Use of heritage livestock breeds in sustainable agriculture

Research Interests

  • Geo-chemistry, chemistry, and physical properties of aquatic dissolved organic matter
    • Properties include elemental make-up (C, H, O, N, S), 13C, 15N, and 2H isotopic signatures, acidic properties
  • Influence of dissolved organic matter on fate of trace metals and organic contaminants
  • Bioavailability of DOM
  • CO2 dynamics in Boreal systems

Research Interests

  • The fate and effects of contaminants in the environment
  • Water quality
  • Watershed management
  • Environmental influences on Indigenous peoples

Research Interests

  • The application of ICP-MS in geochemical, environmental and life science fields for elemental and isotopic analysis
    • Includes fundamental studies of the ICP (for example isotope-dependent oxide formation during ion extraction)

Applied Research

  • The development of single particle ICP-MS for the characterization of small (< 20 nm) nanoparticles in natural waters
  • Measurement of Pb and Li isotope ratios at low (ng/L) concentrations
  • Gas phase ion molecule reaction chemistry for chemical resolution of isobaric interferences (specifically for the measurement of radionuclides)

Research Interests

  • Land resources processes and assessment through Computer Modelling and Applied Geospatial Sciences (including Remote Sensing, GIS, GPS and UAV)
  • The impacts of climate change on land, water and vegetation resources
  • Applications to watershed management and agriculture

Research Interests

  • Environmental organic mass spectrometry
  • Mass spectromtery based environmental metabolomics
  • Method development for analysis of organic contaminants
  • Characterization of complex environmental samples

Research Interests

  • The speciation of anion-forming trace metal(loid)s in natural environments and in industrial waste streams

Current Projects

  • Developed analytical methods for the speciation of such elements (above), particularly arsenic, selenium and chromium in liquids and solids using ion chromatography coupled to inductively-coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (IC-ICP-MS).
    • Applies these methods to study the cycling, transformation and fate of these elements in natural and industrial systems. In the environment, the generated data are used to study geochemical transport processes and assess the risk arising from existing contaminations.
    • In industrial waste streams, he uses these approaches to design and control custom-tailored treatment strategies.

Research Interests

  • The impacts of pollutants, including trace metals, sulphur and nitrogen on soils, wetlands and lakes
    • Particularly the factors that impact biogeochemical processes that impact the long-term fate of contaminants and their potential toxicity
    • Understanding the effectiveness of remediation strategies such as liming and wood ash applications

Université de Montreal

Faculty

Research Interests

  • The lab is working at the interfaces of ecology, biogeochemistry, analytical chemistry and atmospheric chemistry
  • We strongly believe that interdisciplinarity is currently needed to tackle current complex environmental issues
  • Our overall research objective is to understand how pollutants and nutrients move in the environment, interact with each other, and what are their effects on the functioning of ecosystems

Research Interests

  • The Hayes group carries out research in the domains of atmospheric chemistry and surface chemistry
  • Characterizing atmospheric particulate matter to better understand its composition, sources, and optical properties
    • Particular matter is an atmospheric pollutant that is responsible for millions of deaths each year and it also plays an important role in climate change
  • Studying the physical and chemical interactions of pollutants with polymer and mineral surfaces
    • Important for remediation technologies and the prediction of pollutant fate

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Research Interests

  • Lie in the field of “molecular” environmental chemistry
  • Specialize in determinations of bioavailability and mobility for trace metals and metal-based nanomaterials
    • The work on nanoparticles attempts to quantify their fate (dissolution, aggregation) and bioavailability (bioaccumulation, genomic and proteomic effects)

Current Projects

    • Examining the nature of the physicochemical processes influencing trace metal bioaccumulation
    • Understanding how complexation and the presence of multiple contaminants affects bioavailability
    • Determinations of trace metal speciation

Research Interests

  • Sauvé’s group works on the analysis, fate and impacts of emerging contaminants, such as pharmaceuticals, surfactants, cyanotoxins, endocrine disruptors and pesticides
  • The work combines method development for liquid chromatography, solid phase extraction, mass spectrometry along with water treatment process, environmental fate from wastewaters and soil amendments and the biological impacts of such contaminants

Université de Toulon

Faculty

Research Interests

  • Elucidate the organic matter and trace metal transfer in coastal zones, particularly in the sensitive mangrove ecosystems
  • Using optical properties, absorbance and fluorescence, improving the impact of anthropic stress like urbanization and contamination as well as impact of global climate change on their stability
  • Characterize and model organic matter and trace metals using fluorescence spectroscopy and electrochemistry

University College London

Faculty

Research Interests

  • Economic Analysis
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Human Wellbeing
  • Materials

University of Eastern Finland (UEF)

Faculty

Research Interests

  • Head of Inhalation Toxicology Laboratory, focusing on toxicological effects of inhalable environmental exposures in the immune system
    • Activation of immunotoxicological mechanisms of adverse health effects induced by:
      • Complex mixture of urban air particulate matter
      • Diverse population of the moldy house microbes and their toxins
    • Protective role of environmental microbes
      • Beneficial effects of environmental microbial exposure on the maturation of immune responses and development of asthma and allergies in early life
  • The research is conducted using multidisciplinary approach in collaboration with experts in e.g. aerosol physics, combustion technology, microbiology, epidemiology and modelling

University of Edinburgh

Faculty

Research Interests

  • The molecular make up of natural organic matter (NOM) in peatlands
    • NOM is a major component of organic rich soils and has a major role in many biogeochemical processes such as carbon storage
    • Due to the fact that NOM exists as a complex mixture of thousands of molecules many of the structural functional relationships remain elusive
    • Of particular concern is how the molecular composition of peat NOM is affected by processes of degradation, peat loss and regeneration
    • As a NERC Soil Security Research Fellow I aim to develop methodologies to study this complex mixture in order to create an assessment tool to determine the status of peatlands in Scotland
  • Application of NMR spectroscopy and FT-ICR mass spectrometry in environmental sciences
  • Peatlands characterisation
  • Complex mixtures analysis
  • NMR methodology development
  • Benchtop NMR

Expertise

  • High resolution analytical techniques such as Nuclear Magnetic Spectroscopy
  • Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Mass Spectrometry
  • Complex mixture structural characterization
  • Molecular tagging
  • nD NMR pulse sequence design

Research Interests

  • Peatland catchment dynamics
  • Isotopic tracer studies and contaminant uptake by food crops
  • Metal/nutrient geochemistry
  • Radionuclide transport in near-surface environments
  • Characterisation of natural organic matter (NOM)
  • Development of novel methods for NOM (soil/sediment/water) extraction and fractionation as well as state-of-the-art methods for characterizing humic substances (HS)
  • Development/testing/implementation of fit-for-purpose contaminant remediation strategies

Research Interests

  • Biogeochemical cycling
  • Treatment of mine drainage in wetlands
  • Sustainable urban drainage
  • Hydrochemical processes in upland catchments

Research Interests

  • Dr. Heal’s research group uses a combination of field measurements, laboratory experiments and modelling to investigate some of the fluxes and chemical processes that occur within the lower atmosphere and the impacts of these on the terrestrial environment and on human health
  • The group has a particular focus on measurement and modelling of air pollution for assessment of health effects and mitigation measures

Profile & Publications Lists

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Andy is Executive Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (ECCI), an international low carbon innovation centre at the University of Edinburgh, with hubs in Edinburgh and Hong Kong that supports entrepreneurs and innovative enterprises on green technology.

He is co-Director of the Scottish Centre of Expertise on Climate Change (ClimateXChange), an initiative established by the Scottish Government to improve climate and energy policy development and implementation. He was a non-executive member of the Scottish Government’s “Climate Change Delivery Board”, which oversees delivery of Scotland’s stretching emission reduction targets, and is on the Executive Group of the National Centre for Resilience. His public policy work has focused on developing effective sub-national and city frameworks that support reduction in dependence on fossil fuels, greenhouse gases and build resilience.

Research Interests

  • Trading energy/carbon in Europe and Asia, and developing new businesses including instigating renewable energy supply chains for transport fuels
  • Developing renewable energy projects internationally
  • Working with multi-national corporations to develop both strategic and practical management responses to emerging environmental legislation

Research Interests

  • Seismology
    • Earthquake hazard
    • Earthquake predictability
    • Non-linear dynamics and statistical mechanics of earthquake sources
    • Earthquake triggering
  • Rock Physics
    • Fluid flow in fractured media
    • Fracture scaling
    • Fluid-rock interactions during deformation
    • Coupling of mechanical, chemical and hydraulic processes
    • Time-dependent deformation

Research Interests

  • Computational chemistry
  • Density functional theory
  • Molecular dynamics
  • Molecular crystals
  • Hydrometallurgy
  • Porous materials
  • Energetic materials

Research Interests

  • Aqueous environmental and microbial geochemistry of metals
  • Coupled fluid flow and rock deformation
  • Thermodynamics of metal adsorbtion and mechanisms of metal uptake onto bacterial cells
  • Metal pollution and biogeochemistry in constructed wetlands, and in coastal settings, including the geochemistry of lanthanides
  • Fluid-rock interactions, time-dependent failure and fluid flow in the brittle crust, with application to sediment diagenesis, fault seal problems and rock weathering

Research Interests

  • Wastewater bioremediation with filamentous algae (NERC) in collaboration with the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS)
  • Development of a novel biofilter for aquaculture wastewater remediation in collaboration with Scotland’s Rural College SRUC and FishfromGB (Scottish Funding Council)
  • Molecular level characterisation of dissolved organic matter for improved water treatment (EPSRC CASE studentship) in collaboration with the School of Chemistry, School of Geosciences at UoE and Scottish Water
  • Application of biochar for rice husk gasification wastewaster treatment in Cambodja in collaboration with the School of Geosciences at UoE (SNV Netherlands Development Organisation)
  • Fouling and cleaning of forward osmosis, nanofiltration and reverse osmosis membranes
  • Organic trace contaminant removal in water treatment and anaerobic digestion with ZVi nanomaterials
  • Removal of helminth eggs in waste stabilization ponds

Research Interests

  • Interaction between surface processes (erosion and sedimentation), mountain building and basin subsidence
  • The growth of topography in mountain ranges
  • Using numerical modelling to analyse the punctuated nature of surface uplift
  • Processes of long term erosion are measured using a range of low temperature thermochronometers, enabling us to question the forcings and response times of surface processes to climate and tectonics
  • The products of the erosional engine in the mountain belt are then studied as stratigraphy in surrounding basins
  • Analysis and modelling of the subsidence history of foreland basins.
  • Understanding Mountain Belt/Foreland Basin systems using a range of approaches, which are also applied to issues of hydrocarbon prospectivity

Current Projects

  • Funding comes from research councils, science foundations and industry
  • Active field areas include the Alps, Pyrenees, Carpathians, Balkans, Ladakh Himalaya and the Rockies
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Research Interests

  • Geographical Information Science; hydrology
  • GIS supported methods to solve practical problems of land and water resource management
  • GIS applications for developing nations

Current Projects

  • Conserving pine woodland biodiversity in Belize through community fire management, change in pine woodland cover in southern Belize (1974-2014)
  • Mapping of urban green infrastructure in Malaysia, 1990-2010

Research Interests

  • NMR spectroscopy
  • Mass spectrometry
  • Analysis of complex mixtures
  • Molecular structure and dynamics
  • Carbohydrate structure
  • Protein-carbohydrate complexes
  • NMR pulse sequence development

University of Florida

Faculty

Research Interests

  • Promoting sustainable agriculture practices in the Everglades Agricultural Area of South Florida
  • Soil sustainability
  • Water quality
  • Nutrient management

Research Interests

  • Soil security and health
  • Soil carbon dynamics
  • Global climate change
  • Pedometrics
  • Digital soil mapping
  • Landscape analysis
  • Geospatial assessment of environmental quality
  • Ecosystem services

Research Interests

  • Biogeochemistry of trace metals in soil-water-plant-microbe ecosystem
  • Phytoremediation and chemical remediation of trace metal contaminated water, soils, and wastes

Research Interests

  • Lability and risks of residuals-borne contaminants (especially trace organics)
  • Bioavailability of biosolids-borne antibiotics to plants, earthworms and microbes, with an eye toward needed regulations
  • Sustainable land application of various residuals