Join academic, government and industry leaders working together to form a remarkable network of expertise on global environmental issues.
The Institute enhances the research impact of its members by promoting cooperation, exchanges, and internationalization for talented undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral-level researchers and faculty to improve teaching and research. The IIES provides a platform for advanced discussion and sharing of ideas and information on significant environmental problems with international dimensions amongst global specialists and scholars. This will encourage the next generation of international environmental researchers and policymakers, giving them an excellent space to network and speak about their research.
FOUR PILLARS OF THE INSTITUTE
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
ETH ZÜRICH
Switzerland
ETH Zürich
Faculty
Lenny Winkel’s group studies the environmental behavior of selenium and other health-impacting trace elements such as arsenic.
Currently, her research consists of two interdisciplinary work programs that are focused on studying sources, pathways and sinks of natural selenium species.
The first work program is aimed at studying the production of volatile selenium species by marine phytoplankton. Her research methods include microcosm studies and the characterization of produced volatile selenium species. The results expected will help improve our understanding of the role of marine phytoplankton in the global selenium cycle.
The deposition of atmospherically transported selenium on the continent is the main focus of the second work program. By performing sampling and trace element analyses on environmental archives, she is investigating whether atmospherically transported selenium could be a source of selenium in the terrestrial environment. The results expected will advance our understanding of atmospheric selenium deposition and provide an insight in the role climate plays in the continental abundance of selenium.
Exploring links between the atmospheric water and trace element cycles in the Kara and Laptev Seas
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Influences of sources and weather dynamics on atmospheric deposition of Se species and other trace elements
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
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Modular Multiplatform Compatible Air Measurement System (MoMuCAMS): a new modular platform for boundary layer aerosol and trace gas vertical measurements in extreme environments
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
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FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE (FMI)
Finland
Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)
Faculty
Mika Komppula’s scientific interests lie mostly in Environmental science, Aerosol, Atmospheric sciences, Meteorology and Remote sensing. His Environmental science research spans across into subjects like Climatology, Particle-size distribution, Taiga, Diurnal temperature variation and Albedo. His Aerosol study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Absorption, Troposphere and Particle number.
His Atmospheric sciences study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Cloud droplet, Cloud condensation nuclei, Nucleation, Arctic and Boundary layer. His study in the field of Atmosphere, Air quality index and Aerosol cloud is also linked to topics like Environmental policy and General Circulation Model. His work on Lidar is typically connected to Radar as part of general Remote sensing study, connecting several disciplines of science.
High Natural Aerosol Loading over Boreal Forests
Science (2006)
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General overview: European Integrated project on Aerosol Cloud Climate and Air Quality interactions (EUCAARI) – integrating aerosol research from nano to global scales
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (2009)
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Characterization and intercomparison of aerosol absorption photometers: result of two intercomparison workshops
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (2011)
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HO CHI MINH CITY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (HCMUT)
Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT)
Faculty
Currently, I have several projects on coastal water quality and assessment the resilience of coastal zone, hydro(bio)geochemical processes controlling the fate of As in groundwater, and groundwater vulnerability assessment.
I teach several courses such as environmental monitoring, the geochemistry of natural waters and water quality management.
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
Emerging and Legacy Pollutants in Vietnam Related to the Climate–Water–Energy–Food Nexus
Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
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Mobilization of Heavy Metals in a Saline Confined Aquifer as a Consequence of Rainwater Injection: A Case Study in Southern Vietnam
Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
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A hydrogeological and geochemical review of groundwater issues in southern Vietnam
Geosciences Journal
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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
Characteristics of sediment affecting monomethylmercury accumulation in benthic fish of the Mekong Delta
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
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Ammonia volatilization from Vietnamese acid sulfate paddy soil following application of digested slurry from biogas digester
Paddy and Water Environment
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Impact of urban effluents from Ho Chi Minh City on the dynamics of trace metals and nutrients in the Saigon River (Vietnam)
Conference: ISRivers 2015
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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
Development of low-cost adsorbents derived from sludge of groundwater treatment for gaseous hydrogen sulfide removal
Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects
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Environmental challenges and air pollution in Bac Lieu, Vietnam: assessing sources and impacts
Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Applied Sciences
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An electrical-and chemical-free approach using microfilter and Ag-based catalysts for emergency drinking water treatment
Environmental Technology
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Research Interests
- Water and wastewater treatment technology
- Advanced oxidation process for wastewater treatment
- Wastewater reuse technology
Determination of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) in water from Canal and Drinking Water Treatment Plants (DWTPs) in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam
2011 International Symposium and Annual Meeting of the KSABC
Assessment of Treatment Removal of Slow – Rate Land Treatment for Piggery and Latex Wastewaters
2nd International Doctoral Symposium with Partner University
Effect of Rubber Wastewater Reuse for Irrigation Plants to Groundwater Quality in Binh Duong Province
Journal of Science and Technology – Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology
ISSN: 0866-708X), 683-690, 51-5C, 2013
Research Interests
- Material science
- Physico-chemical engineering
- Biological engineering
Comparison of 2D and 3D electrochemical oxidation systems for removal of reactive dyes in water
Desalin Water Treat
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Synthesis of microcrystalline cellulose from banana pseudo-stem for adsorption of organics from aqueous solution
Engineering and Applied Science Research
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Batch and column adsorption of reactive dye by eggshell powder–chitosan gel core-shell material
Moroccan Journal of Chemistry
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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
Hydrological fluctuations drive microbially-mediated oscillations in As concentration in Mekong Delta groundwater (Vietnam)
2024 Goldschmidt Conference
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Groundwater resource challenges and abstraction-induced land subsidence in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta
The Mekong River Basin
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A novel SGD-DLSTM-based efficient model for solar power generation forecasting system
Energy Harvesting and Systems
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Research Interests
- Effects of climate change on ecosystems and biological feedback on GHGs
- Sustainable wastewater treatment
- Desalination
Performance of vertical up-flow-constructed wetlands integrating with microbial fuel cell (VFCW-MFC) treating ammonium in domestic wastewater
Environmental Technology
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Optimization process for enhancing the recovery of ammonium and phosphate from wastewater by modified rice husk biochar
Engineering and Applied Science Research
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Photocatalytic disinfection of Coliforms and degradation of natural organic matters in river water using titanate nanotubes
Environmental Technology
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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
Recovery of aluminum from plastic packages containing aluminum by gasification
Waste Management
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The pyrolysis system for aluminum packaging with the highest aluminum recovery efficiency
Science and Technology Development Journal
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Hydrogen sulfide removal from simulated synthesis gas using a hot gas cleaning system
Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
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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.
Comparison of secondary metabolite production in the sterigmatocystin and austinol cluster deletion strains in Aspergillus nidulans
JSM Mycotoxins
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A multi locus sequence analysis scheme for phylogeny of the Bacillus subtilis species complex and its advantages over 16S rRNA genes
HCMCOU Journal of Science-Advances in Computational Structures
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Hyperosmotic medium partially restores the growth defect and the impaired production of sterigmatocystin of an Aspergillus nidulans Δ pmtC mutant in a HogA-independent manner
FEMS Microbiology Letters
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THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (HKUST)
China
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Faculty
Research Interests
- Metal ecotoxicology
- Biogeochemistry
Tracking the Cellular Degradation of Silver Nanoparticles: Development of a Generic Kinetic Model
ACS Nano
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Bioprospecting of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii for boosting biofuel-related products production based on novel aggregation-induced emission active extracellular polymeric substances nanoprobes
Bioresource Technology
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Differential cellular uptake and trafficking of nanoplastics in two hemocyte subpopulations of mussels Perna viridis
Journal of Hazardous Materials
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Vietnam
Institute for Circular Economy Development (ICED)
Staff
Research Interests
- Climate Change Adaptation
- Circular Economy
- Urban/Agriculture Transitioning and Sustainability
- Social-Ecological System and Resilience
- Nature-based Solutions
Water hyacinths retain river plastics
Environmental Pollution
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Comparing the distribution and development of Urban Green Spaces in the two Vietnamese delta cities Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City
EGU24 General Assembly
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River plastic transport affected by tidal dynamics
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
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Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS)
Canada
Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
Faculty
Claude Fortin
Professor, Co-director of EcotoQ
Metal biogeochemistry, Speciation and bioavailability of metals in aqueous media
The expertise of Professor Fortin lies both in the fields of element biogeochemistry and ecotoxicology in aquatic systems. More specifically, his work contributes to improving ecotoxicological risk assessment of metallic contaminants in the environment through the characterization of metal exposure and effects on aquatic organisms.
His work focuses mainly on the impacts of environmental factors such as pH, micronutrients and dissolved organic matter on the bioavailability and subcellular distribution of trace elements in phytoplankton and biofilms. This is achieved by using state-of-the-art analytical techniques which leads him to also work on the development of aqueous metal speciation techniques.
Aluminum-induced changes in the net carbon fixation and carbon decomposition of a nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Trichodesmium erythraeum
Biogeochemistry
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A comparative study of accumulation and detoxification of copper and zinc in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: The role of extracellular polymeric substances
Science of the Total Environment
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Fluoride removal from drinking water (Metlaoui, Tunisia) using untreated and treated natural clays
Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology
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Professor Lavoie’s work focuses on monitoring the health of aquatic ecosystems using biological descriptors. She is particularly interested in the various responses of river biofilms to anthropogenic disturbances (e.g., urban, agricultural, mining environments). The IDEC (Eastern Canada Diatom Index) water biological integrity assessment tool, developed with her colleagues in 2005, is now one of the water quality indicators used by various water management organizations (Quebec and Ontario environment ministries, Government of Canada, watershed organizations, private companies).
Its research objectives are to develop bioindicators and biomarkers of stress, in particular by studying the effects of anthropogenic disturbances on the nutritional quality of biofilms (e.g., fatty acids) and the consequences on the food chain.
Zooplankton in northern lakes show taxon-specific responses in fatty acids across climate-productivity and ecosystem size gradients
Limnology and Oceanography
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The biodiversity adaptation gap: Management actions for marine protected areas in the face of climate change
Conservation Letters
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Interactive effects of bismuth exposure (water and diet) and temperature on snail fatty acid composition, antioxidant enzymes and lipid peroxidation
Frontiers in Environmental Chemistry
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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
United States of America
Johns Hopkins University
Faculty
William (Bill) Ball has over 30 years of experience investigating physical-chemical processes controlling water quality, as related to both natural aquatic systems and engineered processes, with primary expertise in areas of contaminant transport and inter-phase mass transfer (i.e., sorption and gas transfer). He is currently the lead investigator of a multi-university project focused on linking changing agricultural practices with water quality impacts to Chesapeake Bay and, in his position as Executive Director of the Chesapeake Research Consortium (CRC), 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.
Sensitivity of Catchment Transit Times to Rainfall Variability Under Present and Future Climates
Water Resources Research
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Improving Riverine Constituent Concentration and Flux Estimation by Accounting for Antecedent Discharge Conditions
Journal of Hydrology
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Correction to Long-Term Changes in Sediment and Nutrient Delivery from Conowingo Dam to Chesapeake Bay: Effects of Reservoir Sedimentation
Environmental Science and Technology
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KEELE UNIVERSITY
England
Keele University
Faculty
My research interests are in the fields of environmental governance. My past research has focused on the regeneration of urban brownfields, domestic energy conservation, and urban development. My current research examines prefigurative grassroots action and the political institutions of a green state as part of the ESRC-funded Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity CUSP
Going down the local: the challenges of place-based net zero governance
Journal of the British Academy
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Universities as living labs for climate praxis
The Climate Crisis
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The political economy of street trees
The Politics of Street Trees
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Professor Ladrech explores the connections between party politics and climate policy. He is particularly interested in progressive parties across Europe and how they are able to influence government and international climate mitigation policy.
Drivers of political parties’ climate policy preferences: lessons from Denmark and Ireland
Climate Politics in Small European States
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Political parties and climate policy: A new approach to measuring parties’ climate policy preferences
Party Politics
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Party politics and EU climate policy
EU Climate Diplomacy
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I have broad research interests spanning i) the behaviour, fate and bioavailability of contaminants in the environment; ii) nutrient fluxes in soil and aquatic systems; iii) the use of novel, recycled materials in soil remediation; and iv) terrestrial ecotoxicology.
Zinc oxide -mesoporous silica nanocomposite: preparation, characterisation and application in water treatment for lead, cadmium and chromium removal View supplementary material Zinc oxide -mesoporous silica nanocomposite: preparation, characterisation and application in water treatment for lead, cadmium and chromium removal
International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry
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Microbial genome (Illumina MiSeq) sequencing of drinking water treatment residuals to evaluate compatibility with environmental applications
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
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Magnesium oxide loaded mesoporous silica: Synthesis, characterisation and use in removing lead and cadmium from water supplies
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Research Interests
- Education for Sustainable Development
- Emergence of the discipline of sustainability science
- Groundwater in glacial systems
Reviewing University Community Gardens for Sustainability: taking stock, comparisons with urban community gardens and mapping research opportunities
Local Environment
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The feasibility and challenges of energy self-sufficient wastewater treatment plants
Applied Energy
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Too much of a good thing? the role of detailed UAV imagery in characterizing large-scale badland drainage characteristics in South-Eastern Spain
International Journal of Remote Sensing
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My research focuses on 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
Glacier–permafrost interactions: Processes, products and glaciological implications
Sedimentary Geology
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Sand intraclasts as evidence of subglacial deformation of Middle Pleistocene permafrost, North Norfolk, UK
Quaternary Science Reviews
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The influence of basal processes on the dynamic behaviour of cold-based glaciers
Quaternary International
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KOREA UNIVERSITY
South Korea
Korea University
Faculty
Research Interests
- Waste management
- Bioavailability of emerging contaminants
- Bioenergy and biochar
- Fundamental soil science
- Soil remediation
Redox-mediated changes in the release dynamics of lead and bacterial community composition in a biochar amended soil contaminated with metal halide perovskite solar panel waste
Science of the Total Environment
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Effects of biodegradable poly (butylene adipate‐co‐terephthalate) and poly (lactic acid) plastic degradation on soil ecosystems
Soil Use and Management
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Current status on utilizing a life cycle system perspective to evaluate renewable energy production systems for achieving UN SDGs
Resources, Conservation and Recycling
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NANJING UNIVERSITY
China
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
Unveiling intricate transformation pathways of emerging contaminants during wastewater treatment processes through simplified network analysis
Water Research
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Deciphering Microbe-Mediated Dissolved Organic Matter Reactome in Wastewater Treatment Plants Using Directed Paired Mass Distance
Environmental Science and Technology
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Degradation of pharmaceuticals in UV/H2O2 process: EEM-based kinetic model, transformation products and corresponding toxicity evaluation
Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
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Research Interests
- Environmental behaviour of organic contaminants in natural soil environment
- Transformation of contaminants monitored by in situ spectroscopic techniques
Selective oxidation behavior based on iron-doped MOF derived carbon-based catalysts: Active site regulation and degradation mechanism analysis
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
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The mechanisms of ·OH formation in MnO2 and oxalate system: Implication for ATZ removal
Journal of Hazardous Materials
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Role of low-molecular-weight organic compounds on photochemical formation of Mn(III)-ligands in aqueous systems: Implications for BPA removal
The Science of the Total Environment
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Research Interests
- Biodegradable polymers
- Environmental functional polymers
Robust Mussel-inspired Coatings for Controlled Zinc Ion Release
Journal of Materials Chemistry
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Response to Comment on “Uptake and Accumulation of Polystyrene Microplastics in Zebrafish ( Danio rerio ) and Toxic Effects in Liver”
Environmental Science and Technology
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One-Step Synthesis of Biodegradable Polyurethane Prepolymer and Its Rapid Gelation Behavior at High Water Content
Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics
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I work in the field of Sustainable Energy Management and Energy/Environmental Policy Analysis. My research is to 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. Learn more here »
Sustainable Blue Foods from Rice–Animal Coculture Systems
Environmental Science & Technology
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Effects of environmental and nutritional labels on the dietary choices of consumers: Evidence from China
Environmental Impact Assessment Review
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Comprehensive Evaluation Framework for Intervention on Health Effects of Ambient Temperature (CEFI-HEAT)
Eco-Environment & Health
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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
Silica nanoparticles inhibit cadmium uptake by the protozoan Tetrahymena thermophila without the need for adsorption
Journal of Hazardous Materials
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Cell-excreted proteins mediate the interactions of differently sized silica nanoparticles during cellular uptake
Journal of Hazardous Materials
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Stimulated Raman Scattering Microscopy Reveals Bioaccumulation of Small Microplastics in Protozoa from Natural Waters
Environmental Science & Technology
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Research Interests
- Basin management
- Environmental modelling and assessment
- Ecological restoration in eutrophicated lake and reservoir
On-Site Operation of a Composting-Type Eco-Toilet Using Beanstalk and Sawdust as Matrix
Advanced Materials Research
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Non-Carcinogenic Risks Induced by Heavy Metals in Water from a Chinese River
Polish Journal of Environmental Studies
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Non-Carcinogenic Risks Induced by Metals in Drinking Source Groundwater of North Jiangsu (China)
Advanced Materials Research
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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
High effective generation of hydrogen peroxide by adjusting three-phase interfaces of gas diffusion electrode during the oxygen reduction reaction
Separation and Purification Technology
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Persulfate activation with biochar supported nanoscale zero- valent iron: Engineering application for effective degradation of NCB in soil
The Science of the Total Environment
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Modulating the Electronic Structures of Fe3C-based Catalyst by Surface Sulfidation to Facilitate H2O2 Activation
Applied Catalysis B: Environment and Energy
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Research Interests
- Environment pollution chemistry
- Environment theory chemistry
- Organic pollutants control techniques
Transformation and Degradation of PAH Mixture in Contaminated Sites: Clarifying Their Interactions with Native Soil Organisms
Toxics
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Photocatalytic degradation of decabromodiphenyl ethane (DBDPE) by wide solar spectrum-responsive nitrogen doped silica
Journal of Cleaner Production
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Effect of small-molecule phenolic compounds on the removal of triclosan (TCS) by heat/persulfate process: Formation of cross-coupling products and implications for wastewater treatment
Chemical Engineering Journal
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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
High effective generation of hydrogen peroxide by adjusting three-phase interfaces of gas diffusion electrode during the oxygen reduction reaction
Separation and Purification Technology
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Activation of peroxymonosulfate (PMS) by rGO supported Co3O4 catalyst for iohexol degradation
Desalination and Water Treatment
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Modulating the Electronic Structures of Fe3C-based Catalyst by Surface Sulfidation to Facilitate H2O2 Activation
Applied Catalysis B: Environment and Energy
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Research Interests
- Membrane biorector
- Membrane preparation
- Surface modification of water purification membrane
Research Interests
- Phytoremediation or bioremediation of soils contaminated by heavy metals and/or organic pollutants
Research Interests
- Environmental policy design
- Pollution reduction
- Climate change
Environmental taxes, environmental outsourcing, and pollution abatement: Evidence from Chinese industrial sewage discharge enterprises
Energy Economics
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The Green Premium: Environmental Regulation, Environmental Risk and Property Value
Environmental and Resource Economics
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Does the Squeaky Wheel Get More Grease? The Direct and Indirect Effects of Citizen Participation on Environmental Governance in China
American Economic Review
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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
Protect the oceans from Japan’s radioisotope dumping
Environmental Science and Ecotechnology
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Mercury supply limits methylmercury production in paddy soils
Science of the Total Environment
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Soil Geobacteraceae are the key predictors of neurotoxic methylmercury bioaccumulation in rice
Nature Food
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Research Interests
- Environmental photochemistry
- Water pollution control
Organic peroxyl radicals from biacetyl accelerated the visible-light degradation of steroid estrogens in aqueous solution
Chemosphere
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Deep removal of toxic oxysalts with titanium xerogels
Advances in Drinking Water Purification
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Integrating Fenton Oxidation and Zirconium-Based Coagulation for Deep Removal of Phosphonates from Polluted Water
ACS ES&T Water
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National Institute of Science & Technology on Continent-Ocean Materials Transfer (INCT-TMCOcean)
Brazil
National Institute of Science & Technology on Continent-Ocean Materials Transfer (INCT-TMCOcean)
Staff
Leticia completed a degree in Oceanography from UERJ (1993), a master’s degree in Geochemistry from UFF (1996) and a PhD in Oceanology from the Université de Perpignan (France, 2000). She is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Oceanography at UERJ, working in the area of marine biogeochemistry. She currently coordinates the Postgraduate Program in Oceanography at UERJ. She was co-author of the 6th IPCC WGI Climate Assessment Report (AR6-2021) and co-leader of the Brazilian Ocean Acidification Research Group (BrOA). She is a member of the scientific committee of the PIRATA project (Prediction and Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic), of Rede CLIMA and the reference group of the Global Ocean Data Analysis Project (GLODAP). Leticia is also the Coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Oceanography at UERJ, PROCIÊNCIA/UERJ scholarship holder, Researcher 2/CNPq and Scientist of Nosso Estado/FAPERJ in the 2022/2024 triennium, solo mother of a daughter (born in 2008), self-taught photographer and supporter of cause of women in science.
Numerical assessment of tidal potential energy in the Brazilian Equatorial Shelf
Renewable Energy
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Brazil fosters fossil fuel exploitation despite climate crises and the environmental vulnerabilities
Marine Policy
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Editorial: The role of the South Atlantic on the interbasin and pole-to-pole connections
Frontiers in Marine Science
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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
Emerging and Legacy Pollutants in Vietnam Related to the Climate–Water–Energy–Food Nexus
Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
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Technology-Critical Elements: An Emerging and Vital Resource that Requires more In-depth Investigation
Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
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Rare Earth Element Accumulation and Fractionation in a Lake Ecosystem Impacted by Past Uranium Mining
Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
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Francisco holds a degree in Electrical Engineering, Electrotechnical option (1985) and Electronic option (1986) from the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), a Master’s degree in Electronic Engineering and Computing in Artificial Intelligence from the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica-ITA (1993) and a PhD in Applied Computing in Artificial Intelligence from the National Institute for Space Research-INPE (1998). He is currently a senior researcher III at the National Institute for Space Research-INPE. He has experience in the areas of mathematical modeling and simulations in applied computing, with an emphasis on Artificial Intelligence and applied software in Digital Signal Processing, working mainly in research on the following topics: machine learning, mathematical morphology, pattern recognition and software-defined systems FPGA compatible.
Effects of Simulated Ionospheric Scintillation on a π⁄3-BPSK Demodulator to Operate on UHF Satellite Communications
International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET)
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A new π⁄3-BPSK Digital Demodulator and Estimation of its Performance in UHF Transionospheric Link
International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET)
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Pattern recognition on FPGA for aerospace applications
Research, Society and Development
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He entered the Geology course at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) in August 2000, and became a Geologist in October 2004. During the Geology course, he gained knowledge in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (DFG) and Coastal Biogeochemical processes, where much of this knowledge was acquired at the Coastal Biogeochemistry Laboratory (LBC) of the UFC’s Institute of Marine Sciences (LABOMAR), coordinated by professors Rozane Valente Marins and Luiz Drude de Lacerda. Faced with the ambitious dream of contributing to the understanding of physical and chemical processes in coastal environments in the face of regional and global climate change, he wrote his monograph combining Biogeochemical and DFG knowledge (Evaluation of the discharge and geochemistry of suspended material in the Jaguaribe River estuary – CE ), under the guidance of Professor Rozane Valente Marins. In February 2005 he entered the Academic Master’s Degree in Tropical Marine Sciences at LABOMAR at UFC, where he developed his master’s project in the Jaguaribe River estuary under the guidance of Prof. Rozane Valente Marins. On May 22, 2007, the master’s thesis (Hydrodynamics of river discharges to the Jaguaribe River estuary – CE (NE, Brazil)) was defended in the LABOMAR auditorium, with the presence of the panel: Profa. Rozane Valente Marins (Advisor), Luiz Drude de Lacerda (internal member/UFC) and Belmiro Mendes de Castro (external member) from the Oceanographic Institute (IO) of the University of São Paulo (USP). In July 2007 he entered the PhD in Physical Oceanography at IO / USP under the guidance of Prof. Belmiro Mendes de Castro and co-supervision of prof. Luiz Drude de Lacerda. These were challenging years, training subjects (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (Prof. Belmiro Castro), Dynamic Oceanography (Prof. Ilson Silveira), Observational Oceanography (Prof. Paulo Polito), Continental Shelf Hydrodynamics (Prof. Belmiro Castro) and Physical Oceanography , Coastal and Estuarine (Prof. Luiz Brunner de Miranda)) provided solid knowledge in Large, Meso and Small scale physical oceanography. In November 2011, the doctoral thesis (Circulation and Water Masses on the Continental Shelf of Ceará: numerical modeling and observations) was defended, with the presence of the panel: Prof. Belmiro Mendes de Castro (Advisor), Osmar Muller (external member IO/FURG), Marcelo Dottori (IO/USP), Joseph Harari (IO/USP) and Luiz Brunner de Miranda (IO/USP). His doctoral thesis resulted in three publications (see next tab) advancing the knowledge of Physical Oceanography in the Brazilian Equatorial Margin. In December 2011 he returned to LABOMAR to develop his POST-DOC project under the supervision of Prof. Luiz Drude de Lacerda,linked to RedeClima (CNPq/LABOMAR/MCTI). In November 2012, driven by the desire to expand the knowledge acquired over the years, he took the exam and was approved at the Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA). In April 2013, he created the Coastal, Estuarine and Inland Water Hydrodynamics Laboratory (LHICEAI), sharing coordination with prof. Audalio Rebelo Torres Junior. On December 15, 2015, with three colleagues (Audalio Rebelo Torres Jr, Ricardo Luvizotto Santos and Marco Valério Jansen Cutrim), he created the Academic Masters in Oceanography (PPGOceano). On October 31, 2017, the UFMA Institute of Marine Sciences (ICMar) was created, bringing the Marine Sciences Teaching and Research Ship II to UFMA. Leader of research groups in: Coastal Hydrodynamics and Numerical Modeling and Coastal and Port Engineering, certified by CNPq. Today, it is dedicated to training highly qualified human resources, aiming to resolve regional inequalities in the north and northeast of Brazil.
Continental shelf water masses off the Jaguaribe River (4S), northeastern Brazil
Continental Shelf Research
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Physical characteristics and discharges of suspended particulate matter at the continent-ocean interface in an estuary located in a semiarid region in northeastern Brazil
Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
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Tidal and low-frequency currents off the Jaguaribe River estuary (4° S, 37° 4′ W), northeastern Brazil
Ocean Dynamics
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Emmanoel has a degree in Biological Sciences from the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (1979), master’s degree in Geosciences (Geochemistry) from the Federal Fluminense University (1985), doctorate in Geosciences (Geochemistry) from the Federal Fluminense University (1997) and post-doctorate in hydrogeochemistry from Universitè D’Avignon-France. He is a full Professor at the Fluminense Federal University, was a visiting Professor at FSU_EUA in 2019, and was the coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Geosciences (Geochemistry) at Universidade Federal Fluminense from 2016 to 2021. Currently, he is the Institutional Coordinator of INCT-TMCOcean and researcher at LOOP – Operational Oceanography and Paleoceanography Laboratory.
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
Trophic analysis of female mangrove crabs at two sites from Southeastern Brazil (Rio de Janeiro)
Ocean and Coastal Research
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Metals in seston from Cabo Frio Bay, a region under the influence of upwelling in SE–Brazil
BioMetals
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Mercury deposition in the western tropical South Atlantic during the last 70 ka
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
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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.
Mercury (Hg) concentration in fish commercialized in the São Luís fish market (MA) and potential exposure of consumers
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
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Mobility, bioavailability and distribution of Fe and Cu in mangroves (Avicennia schaueriana and Rhizophora mangle) from a semiarid coast in NE Brazil
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
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Stable isotopes and mercury as tools to depict aquatic food webs
Química Nova
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Francisco holds a degree in Industrial Chemistry (1999), a degree in Chemistry (2002), a master’s degree (2004) and a PhD (2014) in Tropical Marine Sciences from the Federal University of Ceará. He is Associate Professor I at the Federal University of Cariri (UFCA), where he was coordinator of Innovation and Pro-Rector of Research, Postgraduate Studies and Innovation. He is currently Coordinator of the UFCA Analytical Center. He is a permanent professor of the Postgraduate Programs in Sustainable Regional Development-PRODER / UFCA and in oceanography-PPGOceano / UFMA. He is a fellow of the Research Productivity Grant Program, Stimulation of Internalization and Technological Innovation-BPI / FUNCAP. Participates in the National Institute of Science and Technology – Materials Transfer-Continent Ocean/INCT-TMCOcean, is a researcher associated with the PRONEX project at the Coastal Biogeochemistry Laboratory/LABOMAR/UFC. Member of the Salgado River Hydrographic Basin Committee. He has experience in the area of Environmental Chemistry and Environmental Geochemistry, working mainly on the following topics: environmental indicators, indices and quality indicators of surface and underground waters, environmental contaminants, coastal ecosystems, biogeochemistry of nutrients and trace metals, bio-adsorbent materials.
Residual loads from tilapia farming on the sediment of a Brazilian reservoir
Environmental Research
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Efficiency of essential oils in the control of the black bean aphid Aphis craccivora Koch (Hemiptera: Aphididae)
Brazilian Journal of Biology
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Adsorption of phosphate in aqueous solution by ash from the fruit peel of Caryocar coriaceum Wittm: adsorption characteristics and behavior
Environmental Science and Pollution Research
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Carlos is a full Professor at the Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro, participated as an Associate Researcher at the University of Washington (School of Oceanography) in the Organic Geochemistry Group led by Prof. John I. Hedges; Collaborating Professor of Environmental Studies in the Williams School of Commerce, Economics and Politics at Washington and Lee University, VA, US and Research Affiliate of the Program in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Fairfield University, CT, US. He works in the areas of Applied Ecology, Management and Conservation of Natural Resources, Chemical Oceanography and Geochemistry and Biogeochemistry of Aquatic Ecosystems. At UENF he was Director of the Center for Biosciences and Biotechnology (CBB); Vice Rector of UENF; Vice-Dean of Undergraduate Studies. He was in the founding group of UENF and responsible for installing the UENF Environmental Sciences Laboratory. Carlos has been a Scientific Productivity researcher at CNPq since 1993 and Scientist of Our State of Rio de Janeiro at FAPERJ since 2006. At UENF he was a Professor Honored for 20 and 25 years at the Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro for services provided at the institution and the Mural of Scientific Merit of Biosciences and Biotechnology Center. Member of the CAPES Biodiversity Committee (2022) and Member of the CNPq Environmental Sciences CA (2021 to 2023).
Can species guilds act as hubs for energy transfer in macrophyte meadows of Amazonian floodplain lakes?
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
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Stable isotopes and mercury as tools to depict aquatic food webs
Química Nova
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Outwelling of reduced porewater drives the biogeochemistry of dissolved organic matter and trace metals in a major mangrove‐fringed estuary in Amazonia
Limnology and Oceanography
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Elisabete is a full Professor at the University of São Paulo, Director of the Oceanographic Institute of the University of São Paulo (2017-2021). Post-Doctorate from ORSTOM – current IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement) (1997), Post-Doctorate from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (2001) and Post-Doctorate from the Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (2004). He completed a Sandwich PhD in Oceanography – (Biological Oceanography) from the University of São Paulo and (Chemical Oceanography) from the Université de Bretagne Occidentale/ France (1995). She holds a Master’s degree in Oceanography (Physical Oceanography – option: Chemical Oceanography) from the University of São Paulo (1989). She holds a Bachelor’s degree and a Degree in Biological Sciences from the University of São Paulo (1983). She joined the Oceanographic Institute in 1982 as a student, became a PROANTAR Laboratory Technician in 1984 and a Laboratory Technician from 1984 onwards. She began her teaching career in 1988 as a Teaching Assistant Professor (MS1). Having defended her master’s degree, she became Assistant Professor (MS2) in 1989, becoming Professor Doctor (MS3) in 1995, specializing in biogeochemical cycles in the oceans and marine biochemistry. Coordinates the LABNUT/IOUSP – Laboratory of Nutrients, Micronutrients and Traces in the Sea. He was Deputy Head (2012-2014) of the Department of Physical Oceanography, Chemistry and Geology at IOUSP and head of it from 2014 to 2017. He coordinated the Instrumentation Laboratory Oceanographic (LIO/IOUSP). She works in two Postgraduate Programs at USP, (IOUSP and PROCAM). Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Oceanography & Aquaculture. Associate Editor of the Special Collection of Ocean and Coastal Research, in the volume “Environmental characteristics and anthropogenic disturbances in marine Ramsar sites”. Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Oceanography and Aquaculture. She is a Reviewer of the Journals: Continental Shelf Research, Pan-American Journal of Aquatic Sciences-PANAMJAS, Journal of Environmental Management-EMAS, Brazilian Journal of Oceanography current Ocean and Coastal Research, Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, Revista Química Nova, Acta Limnológica Brasiliensia , Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology, Brazilian Journal Of Biology and Revista Pesquisa Naval. She works as an Advisor and Consultant for several Institutions, such as: CNPq, FAPESP, FAPERJ, FAPEAL, FACEPE, UFPR and TECPAR, among others. She was Director of the USP Science Museum for 3 consecutive terms in the period 2004-2010. It acts equally in the three pillars required by the University of São Paulo: Teaching, Research and Culture and Extension, with an emphasis on the dissemination and popularization of science. She has experience in the area of Oceanography, with an emphasis on Chemical Oceanography, working mainly on the following topics: nutrients, carbon cycle, chemical oceanography, pollution and heavy metals. It has around 100,000 nautical miles sailed on scientific expeditions.She is the leader of a research group and holds equipment patents. She is the leader of Individual and Thematic Research Projects and participates in INCT. It has a strong role in training researchers and in the interface of service extension and communication with the community. Participates in International Agreements with France and England. It maintains partnerships with researchers from several Brazilian Universities and other countries such as Spain, USA, Portugal and Italy. He also works in the areas of Museology and Culture and Extension, having been President of the IOUSP Culture and Extension Committee from 2004 to 2016.
Morphometric analysis of lapillus otoliths in two estuarine bioindicator catfish (Siluriformes, Ariidae) from a marine protected area in Brazil
Ocean and Coastal Research
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Anomalous trend of chlorophyll-a as a response to mesoscale phenomena in a Brazilian oligotrophic ria
Continental Shelf Research
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Study of the Distribution of Phosphorus and Suspended Particulate Matter in a Brazilian Estuarine System
Proceedings of the National Postgraduate Meeting
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Jose holds a degree in Industrial Chemistry and a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (1976), a Master’s degree in Nuclear Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1979) and a PhD in Radiochemistry – Technische Universität München (1983). He is currently a full professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He has experience in the area of Nuclear Engineering, with an emphasis on Radioisotope Applications, working mainly on the following topics: natural radionuclides, environmental samples, ICP-MS, dating, petroleum, Forensic Chemistry and isotopic analysis.
Analysis of ballistic fragments by means of micro ballistic examinations, determination of chemical composition and lead isotopic analysis: a review
Química Nova
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Pulsed‐Laser‐Driven CO2 Reduction Reaction for the Control of the Photoluminescence Quantum Yield of Organometallic Gold Nanocomposites
Small Science
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Hydrogen and Oxygen Isotopes as Mass Proxies Along the South Atlantic Ocean
EGU General Assembly 2024
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Rozane graduated in Chemistry (1982), master’s and doctorate in Geosciences (Geochemistry) from Universidade Federal Fluminense (1988, 1998 respectively). She is currently Associate Professor IV at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC), doctoral advisor for the Tropical Marine Sciences Program. She is part of the Structuring Teaching Center of the Bachelor’s Degree in Oceanography course, of which she was coordinator between 2018 and 2021. She was vice-coordinator of the Postgraduate Program at the Institute of Marine Sciences from 2006 to 2010. She is the associate editor of the Revista Arquivos de Ciências do Mar. As amnestied by MCTI through Law No. 8,878, of May 11, 1994, she worked at the unit of the National Institute for Space Research (Eusébio, CE) from 2010 to 2012. She has experience in the areas of Geochemistry, Chemical Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry and Ecosystem Ecology, working mainly on the following topics: transfer of continent-ocean materials, environmental indicators, marine environmental monitoring, eastern northeast basins, biogeochemistry of mercury and other trace metals. With the industrial sector, she coordinated the Marine Environmental Monitoring Network project, agreement Petrobrás / FCPC / Laboratories, Sub-project 01-Nº1728, and the Commercialized Gas Project in Brazil, agreement 1497 CT Petrobrás / FCPC. Coordinated the Brazil-France project from 2012 to 2015. Vice-coordinator of the INCT Continente-Oceano Material Transfer (INCT TMC Ocean), coordinates the FUNCAP/CNPq/PRONEX project on the carbon cycle in the coastal region and development of equipment for measuring carbon flows. CO2 at the ocean-atmosphere interface. She is leader of the Coastal Biogeochemistry research group, certified by CNPq. She participates in the CAPES COFECUB project approved in 2019 for the four-year period 2020-2023 and in a doctoral student co-tutorship agreement UFC / Université de Toulon (FR).
Mobility, bioavailability and distribution of Fe and Cu in mangroves (Avicennia schaueriana and Rhizophora mangle) from a semiarid coast in NE Brazil
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
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Non-conservative behavior of organic matter and its interaction with metals in an equatorial estuary, Brazil
Environmental Science and Pollution Research
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Trace metal partitioning in the parnaíba delta in dry season, equatorial coast of Brazil
Environmental Pollution
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Paulo Ricardo Petter Medeiros completed his PhD in Geosciences (Geochemistry) from the Fluminense Federal University in 2003. He is currently a Full Professor at the Federal University of Alagoas. He published 38 articles in specialized journals, 5 complete articles in event annals, 4 book chapters, and 21 works in event annals. He participated in 8 events in Brazil. He supervised 21 scientific initiation works, 21 course conclusion works (in unspecified knowledge domains) and 7 master’s theses. He works in the area of Oceanography and Limnology, with an emphasis on Chemical-Biological / Geological Interactions of Chemical Substances in Water. In his professional activities he interacted with 23 collaborators in co-authoring scientific works. In his Lattes curriculum, the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural production are: São Francisco River, Bathymetry, sedimentation, siltation, dam, impact, TSS, Estuary, Water quality, dam impacts, Aquaculture, Baixo São Francisco, Várzea da Marituba, Chlorophyll and Estuarine Complex, geomorphology, bathymetry.
Blooms of Ceratium furcoides (levander) langhans and Cylindrospermopsis raciboskii (woloszynska) seenayya & subba raju in lower São Francisco (Northeast of Brazil)
Brazilian Journal of Aquatic Science and Technology
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Analysis of the temporal variation of phosphorus load in the lower São Francisco River (AL/SE)
Revista Brasileira de Geografia Física
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Water Quality and Phosphorus and Nitrogen Flow in the Paraíba do Meio River (AL)
Revista Brasileira de Geografia Física
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Dr. Stéphane Mounier is a researcher at the Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography. He obtained his PhD on the flux and characterization of organic matter in the Amazon River at the University of Paris VI. He works on the spectroscopy of organic matter and its interaction with metals in various environments (soils, lakes, seawater, pore water, sediments, and solids) using PARAFAC decomposition. His latest work focuses on mangrove organic matter and its fluorescence characterization.
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
Algal‐ and soil‐derived dissolved organic matter shapes bacteria‐phytoplankton interactions in a high‐altitude lake
Freshwater Biology
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Trace metal partitioning in the parnaíba delta in dry season, equatorial coast of Brazil
Environmental Pollution
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Extreme hydrological regimes of a small urban river: impact on trace element partitioning, enrichment and fluxes
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
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Alessandra has her PhD in Chemical and Geological Oceanography from the University of São Paulo (2004). She is an Associate Professor of the Special Coordination in Oceanography at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, linked to the Undergraduate Courses in Oceanography and Postgraduate Courses in Geography and Oceanography. She developed a Post-Doctorate at Louisiana State University (USA, 2013-2014) and at the University of Algarve (PT, 2018-2019). Her research lines include marine pollution, with a focus on eutrophication and the impact generated by garbage, biogeochemical processes at the land-sea interface and environmental education. She participates in the National Institute of Science and Technology for Material Transfer at the Continent-Ocean Interface (INCT-TMCOcean) and the Coastal Benthic Habitats Monitoring Network (ReBentos). Extension activities are aimed at training public school teachers in marine-coastal environmental education and Oceanic Culture. Percussionist in the feminist block Cores de Aidê. Mother of two daughters, born in 1996 and 1998, a period in which she was not entitled to maternity leave in Postgraduate Studies.
Change in the dynamics of salinity and water quality of an island estuary by the discharge of effluents
RBRH
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Marine Eutrophication: Overview from Now to the Future
Anthropogenic Pollution of Aquatic Ecosystems
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Macroecological patterns of forest structure and allometric scaling in mangrove forests
Global Ecology and Biogeography
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Originally from Guatemala, Dr. Vásquez Mazariegos is a professor at Fairfield University specializing in development and environmental economics, with a regional emphasis on Latin America. His academic credentials include four master’s degrees, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of New Mexico. Dr. Vásquez Mazariegos has worked as a consultant for the United Nations, international think tanks, and research centers in Central America. His research portfolio includes articles on water and sanitation services in developing countries, renewable energy, nonmarket valuation of environmental resources and public goods, as well as household preferences for policies aimed to mitigate and adapt to climate change, sea level rise, and natural disasters. Dr. Vásquez Mazariegos has field research experience in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Uruguay, and the United States where he has implemented household and community surveys. Additionally, Dr. Vásquez Mazariegos is an active member of professional societies and frequently collaborates with nongovernmental organizations in research and community development projects. In his spare time, Dr. Vásquez Mazariegos enjoys his family, traveling, and watching soccer (real football) with a cup of Guatemalan coffee at hand.
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
Tourists’ willingness to fund local investments in renewable energy: A contingent valuation study from the Galápagos Islands
Energy for Sustainable Development
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Valuing water service reliability and in-home water storage: A hedonic price model from Guatemala
Utilities Policy
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Institutional, economic, and spatial barriers to water services delivery in urban slums and informal settlements
Routledge Handbook of Urban Water Governance
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NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY
Taiwan
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
Emissions and By-Products from Producing Torrefied Solid Recovered Fuel Using Pulp Industry Waste
Environments
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The By-products and Emissions from Manufacturing Torrefied Solid Fuel Using Waste Bamboo Chopsticks
Environments
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Production of a Solid Bio-fuel from Waste Bamboo Chopsticks by Torrefaction for Cofiring with Coal
Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis
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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
Analysis of Storage Capacity Change and Dam Failure Risk for Tailings Ponds Using WebGIS-Based UAV 3D Image
Sustainability
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Enhancing NOx removal in a high-gravity rotating packed bed with gaseous ClO2 oxidation-absorption: Kinetic, mass transfer, and cost analysis
Chemical Engineering Journal
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NOx removal and copper recovery from the leaching process for waste printed circuit boards: performance evaluation and potential environmental impact assessment
Environmental Science and Pollution Research
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Research Interests
- Environmental Impact Analysis
- Water Resource Systems
Unmasking Air Quality: A Novel Image-based Approach to Align Public Perception with Pollution Levels
Environment International
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Nexus of ecosystem service-human health-natural resources: The nature-based solutions for urban PM2.5 pollution
Sustainable Cities and Society
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Dynamic life cycle assessment for water treatment implications
Science of the Total Environment
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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
Evaluating Boron Removal from Aqueous Solutions Using Membrane Capacitive Deionization (MCDI): Efficacy and Limitations
Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
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Achieving high water recovery in a redox-flow battery with graphite felt electrodes for brine concentration
Desalination
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Tailoring graphitic nitrogen-enriched electrocatalytic membranes for acetaminophen degradation: Mechanistic insights into the site-specific reactive process
Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
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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
Assessment of sources and health risks of heavy metals in metropolitan household dust among preschool children: The LEAPP-HIT study
Journal of Environmental Management
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Separated Active Site and Reaction Space for Multi‐Pollutant Elimination Significantly Enhancing Low Toxic Product Selectivity
Advanced Functional Materials
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Oral and inhalation bioaccessibility of mercury in contaminated soils and potential health risk to the kidneys and neurodevelopment of children in Taiwan
Environmental Geochemistry and Health
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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
Morphological and semi-quantitative characteristics of diesel soot agglomerates emitted from commercial vehicles and a dynamometer
Journal of Environmental Sciences
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Aerosol penetration properties of an electret filter with submicron aerosols with various operating factors
Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part A Toxic/Hazardous Substances & Environmental Engineering
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Measuring the fractal dimension of diesel soot agglomerates by fractional Brownian motion processor
Atmospheric Environment
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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
Evaluation of spatial and temporal changes in illicit drug use in the Taipei metropolitan area via wastewater-based epidemiology
The Science of the Total Environment
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Sunlight enhanced the formation of tribromomethane from benzotriazole degradation during the sunlight/free chlorine treatment in the presence of bromide
Chemosphere
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Emerging Perfluorobutane Sulfonamido Derivatives as a New Trend of Surfactants Used in the Semiconductor Industry
Environmental Science and Technology
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Research Interests
- Immobilized biological treatment
- Water purification by membrane technology
- Photo-catalytic degradation of refractory organics
Emissions and By-Products from Producing Torrefied Solid Recovered Fuel Using Pulp Industry Waste
Environments
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Shifts of microbial community structure along substrate concentration gradients in immobilized biomass for nitrogen removal
NPJ Clean Water
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Technological and economic perspectives of membrane capacitive deionization (MCDI) systems in high-tech industries: From tap water purification to wastewater reclamation for water sustainability
Resources Conservation and Recycling
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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
Release of lead, copper, zinc from the initial corrosion of brass water meter in drinking water: Influences of solution composition and electrochemical characterization
Environmental Pollution
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Characterization of Fe-Containing and Pb-Containing Nanoparticles Resulting from Corrosion of Plumbing Materials in Tap Water Using a Hyphenated ATM-DMA-spICP-MS System
Environmental Science and Technology
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Influence of point-of-use dispensers on lead level assessment in drinking water of a lead pipe-free campus
NPJ Clean Water
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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
MXene/biochar composites for enhanced wastewater reclamation and bioenergy production: A kinetics and thermodynamics study
Chemosphere
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Advancing nanobubble technology for carbon-neutral water treatment and enhanced environmental sustainability
Environmental Research
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An Economic Analysis of Energy Saving and Carbon Mitigation by the Use of Phase Change Materials for Cool Energy Storage for an Air Conditioning System—A Case Study
Energies
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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
Development of secondary material competition modelling for evaluation of incentive policies on plastic waste
Journal of Cleaner Production
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Measuring circularity potential for medical waste management – a dynamic circularity performance analysis
Sustainable Environment Research
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Measuring circular economy transition potential for industrial wastes
Sustainable Production and Consumption
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Research Interests
- The application of biotechnology in environmental engineering
- The reduction of disinfection byproducts
- Microbial ecology and metabolic response from micro-pollutant exposure
Ozone micron bubble pretreatment for antibiotic resistance genes reduction in hospital wastewater treatment
Sustainable Environment Research
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Study on antibacterial properties of heated oyster shell particle against Bacillus subtilis spores in rainwater by response surface methodology based on central composite design
Journal of Water and Health
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Effects of temperature and microorganism densities on disinfection by-product formation
Science of the Total Environment
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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
Model Simulation of Diurnal Vertical Migration Patterns of Different-Sized Colonies of Microcystis Employing a Particle Trajectory Approach
Environmental Engineering Science
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Correction to Development of a Trajectory Model for Predicting Attachment of Submicrometer Particles in Porous Media: Stabilized NZVI as a Case Study
Environmental Science and Technology
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Biodegradable surfactant stabilized nanoscale zero-valent iron for in situ treatment of vinyl chloride and 1,2-dichloroethane
Journal of Hazardous Materials
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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
Scaling up 3D-printed urine microbial fuel cells with the membrane electrode assembly
Journal of Power Sources
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Valorization of heavy metal-adsorbed microalgae from a membrane bioreactor for levulinic acid production
Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
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Integrated omics analysis on the bacterial community in the anaerobic digestion of chicken manure materials in biogas production farm
Bioresource Technology Reports
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NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF WATER RESEARCH (NIVA)
Norway
Norwegian Institute of Water Research (NIVA)
Staff
Research Interests
- Mercury bioaccumulation in fish
- Boreal forest biogeochemistry
- Arctic research and sampling
The Myanmar Norway Environmental Programme’s Capacity building achievements
2024 Report
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Mercury in the Barents region – River fluxes, sources, and environmental concentrations
Environmental Pollution
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Integrated Water Resources Management in Myanmar Ecology of Rivers, Lakes, and Reservoirs
2023 Report
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Thorjørn Larssen is Deputy Managing Director of The Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), a leading research institute on the aquatic environment. Thorjørn is a water and environment expert with background in environmental chemistry from the University of Oslo. As a scientist he has been working on wide range of topics related to environmental pollution, from pristine lakes impacted by long range transported air pollutants in Norway, to extremely polluted hot spots near mining and chemical industrial sites in China. He has co-authored more than 100 peer reviewed research papers and book chapters. He has been Adjunct Professor at the University of Oslo, guest professor at Tsinghua University and at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Thorjørn has been involved in international research, capacity building cooperation and science policy dialog for more than 25 years. He has extensive experience from work on the ground in Asia and Europe. He has contributed to the knowledge base for international conventions on long range transported air pollutants, persistent organic pollutants, mercury, and most recently plastics. Thorjørn is also the leader of the European Topic Centre on Biodiversity and Ecosystems, a large consortium of European expert institutions supporting the implementation European environmental policies with data and policy assessments.
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)
A probe into the acid deposition mitigation path in China over the last four decades and beyond
National Science Review
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Delayed recovery of surface water chemistry from acidification in subtropical forest region of China
Science of the Total Environment
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Decreasing mercury levels in consumer fish over the three decades of increasing mercury emissions in China
Eco-Environment & Health
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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)
Modelling plastic fluxes with INCA-macroplastics in the Imus catchment: impacts of long-term accumulation and extreme events
Environmental Research Letters
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Actions Are Needed to Deal with the High Uncertainties in Tire Wear Particle Analyses
Environmental Science and Technology
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Measuring riverine macroplastic: Methods, harmonisation, and quality control
Water Research
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SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY
China
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Faculty
My current research focused on the development of nanomaterials for organic pollutants treatments and environmental sensor as well as on the design of new strategies using nanomaterials for water splitting and CO2 reduction.
Synergistic etching of nickel foam by Fe3+ and Cl− ions to synthesize nickel-iron-layered double hydroxide nanolayers with abundant oxygen vacancies for superior urea oxidation
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
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Synergistic catalysis of TiO2/WO3 photoanode and Sb–SnO2 electrode with highly efficient ClO• generation for urine treatment
Journal of Hazardous Materials
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Chlorine oxide radical: An emerging free radical for denitrification and pollutant degradation
Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
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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.
Effects of familiarity and likability on music masking of aircraft flyover noise for young people
Applied Acoustics
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Application of equivalent diameter in sound absorption performance prediction of non-circular sectional polyester fibers
Applied Acoustics
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Improvement on perception of welding noise by fountain sound masking: Insights from fMRI
Applied Acoustics
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Dr. Xinde Cao, Distinguished Professor and Executive Vice Dean of School of Environmental Science and Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He obtained Ph.D degree from University of Science and Technology of China in 1998. Then, he worked in Nanjing University from 1998 to 2000 as assistant professor. He moved to USA as a postdoc associate at University of Florida and Stevens Institute of Technology between 2000 and 2005. Dr. Cao was employed as a Chemist at University of Florida between 2005 and 2009. He joined Shanghai Jiao Tong University since 2009.04. Dr. Cao focuses on his research on the remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater, interfacial reaction of contaminants in soil-groundwater system, and biochar-based carbon sequestration and soil ecological effect. 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
- 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
Crucial roles of soil inherent Fe-bearing minerals in enhanced Cr(VI) reduction by biochar: The electronegativity neutralization and electron transfer mediation
Environmental Pollution
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Incorporating biochar into fuels system of iron and steel industry: carbon emission reduction potential and economic analysis
Applied Energy
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Mineralogical transformation of arsenic at different copper smelting workshops: The impact on arsenic bioaccessibility
Chemosphere
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My current research interests focus on the 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. Currently, our group has set up an urban observation site in SJTU, including physical and chemical properties of particulate matter, meteorological factors. Meanwhile, the WRF/CMAQ model has also been tested and performed for the source apportionment of heavy haze episodes, based on high parallel computing center of SJTU. Last, the long-term concentration datasets of ambient air pollutants from Chinese government has also been collected and analyzed.
Biogenic and Anthropogenic Contributions to Atmospheric Organosulfates in a Typical Megacity in Eastern China
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
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Emulation of an atmospheric gas-phase chemistry solver through deep learning: Case study of Chinese Mainland
Atmospheric Pollution Research
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Organosulfates in atmospheric aerosols in Shanghai, China: seasonal and interannual variability, origin, and formation mechanisms
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
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Dr. Yong Geng currently works at the Department of Environmental Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Yong does research in Quantitative Social Research, Environmental Economics and Environmental Engineering. Their current project is ‘Low carbon City Project, Japan, Indonesia and China’.
Research Interests
- Industrial ecology
- Environment management
- Climate change
- Carbon emission accounting
- Sustainable development
Anthropogenic cycles of praseodymium in China: 2000–2020
Resources Policy
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Corrigendum to “Tracking the evolution of niobium cycle in China from 2000 to 2021: A dynamic material flow analysis” [J. Clean. Prod. (2024) 434 140455]
Journal of Cleaner Production
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Life cycle environmental and economic assessment of Tetra Pak recycling technologies
Resources, Conservation and Recycling
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Research Interests
- Industrial and municipal wastewater treatment engineering
- Emerging contaminants environmental behaviour and control
- Membrane technology research and applications
Size-dependent effects of microplastics on intestinal microbiome for Perna viridis
Journal of Hazardous Materials
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Predicting Antibiotic Resistance and Assessing the Risk Burden from Antibiotics: A Holistic Modeling Framework in a Tropical Reservoir
Environmental Science and Technology
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Reverse electron transfer: Novel anaerobic methanogenesis pathway regulated through exogenous CO2 synergized with biochar
Bioresource Technology
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Our researches are focusing on the design of green chemo-processes for biomass conversion, CO2 fixation and catalytic conversion, and organic synthetic chemical. The specific research interests include:
- Developing 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.
- Designing new catalytic system for CO2 fixation and conversion to useful chemicals, such as formic acid, methanol, methane and lactones etc.
- Developing new methods for the formation of biological active compounds via transition-metal catalyst or Lewis acid catalyst.
- Developing new methods for the synthesis of heavy metal adsorbent via modifying the magnetic carboxylated-rich carbonaceous materials.
Investigation of cutting mechanism and residual stress state with grooved grinding wheels
The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
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Investigation on grinding temperature and heat flux distribution with grooved grinding wheels
The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
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Material Removal Capability and Profile Quality Assessment on Silicon Carbide Micropillar Fabrication with a Femtosecond Laser
Materials
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Based on improving global carbon cycle by mimicking nature, our research interest mainly focus on hydrothermal conversion of biomass, organic waste and CO2 into chemicals and fuels, and other related green technologies for clean energy. These researches mainly include:
- 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.
Enhancing the Synergistic Effect of Bifunctional Pd-Based Catalyst by Phosphonic Acid for Cellobiose Conversion to Sorbitol
ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
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Geochemistry-Inspired One-Pot CO 2 Reduction and Pyrite Desulfurization Under Hydrothermal Conditions
ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
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The cellulose hydrolysis into glucose with carbon-based solid acid catalyst via machine learning, life cycle assessment and bibliometric analysis
Fuel
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Jia Li is Associate Professor from 2008 at School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. His research include field of waste management on sustainable E-waste recycling, waste plastic recycling and used lithium-ion battery recycling. He has in charge of several national research projects and published more than 20 scientific papers which included 7 papers in Environmental Science and Technology (IF:5.257 ) and 10 papers in Journal of Hazardous Materials.
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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Sensor-Based Technologies in Effective Solid Waste Sorting: Successful Applications, Sensor Combination, and Future Directions
Environmental Science and Technology
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Challenges to Future Development of Spent Lithium Ion Batteries Recovery from Environmental and Technological Perspectives
Environmental Science and Technology
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Coupling reactions and collapsing model in the roasting process of recycling metals from LiCoO2 batteries
Journal of Cleaner Production
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Prof. Liang Li received B.S. in physics from Peking (Beijing) University (PKU) and entered the graduate school of University of Wisconsin-Madison at the physics department in 1999. He performed his Ph.D. dissertation research at DESY (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany) on the ZEUS experiment of the HERA Collider and received the doctoral degree in 2005. Later he moved to the Fermilab (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL, USA) and worked on the D0 experiment of the Tevatron Collider as a post-doctoral scholar. He was promoted to be a research faculty of University of California, Riverside in 2010. He joined Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) as a Distinguished Research Fellow in 2012 and became a tenured professor of physics in 2020.
Prof. Li co-founded the Collider Physics Group at SJTU. He is currently leading the SJTU g-2 research group on the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab. He is also a deputy leader of the SJTU ATLAS group working on the Higgs physics and top quark physics topics with ATLAS experiment at the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research).
Prof. Li played a leading role in the D0 Collaboration team who discovered the existence of the single top quark in March, 2009 (one of Tevatron’s Milestones). He served as a convenor of single top working group at D0 and co-led various top quark physics sub-groups such as top quark precision measurements and top quark properties groups. He also co-led both the trigger group and the trigger board at D0. Prof. Li has made substantial constributions to the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab with a major role in the first results of the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab in 2021 and the subsequent updated results in 2023. He has been spearheading the offline analysis and computing efforts since 2018 and has held the role of the general secretary for the Muon g-2 Collaboration since 2016. He has also served in the publication committee and speaker’s committee of the Muon g-2 Collaboration.
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
Measurement of the Positive Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment to 0.20 ppm
Muon g-2 Collaboration
e-Print: arXiv:2308.06230 [hep-ex]
Observation of four-top-quark production in the multilepton final state with the ATLAS detector
ATLAS Collaboration
e-Print: arXiv:2303.15061 [hep-ex]
Measurement of the Positive Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment to 0.46 ppm
Muon g-2 Collaboration
e-Print: arXiv:2104.03281 [hep-ex]
Mingce Long currently works at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Mingce does research in Catalysis, Environmental Chemistry and Nanomaterials. Their current project is ‘persulfate based advanced oxidation technology’.
Mingce’s main research 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. I am trying to explore 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. My recent projects include two parts: to remove antibiotics and other organic micropollutants from water; and to remediate polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons polluted soil.
Synergistically enhancing the remediation of low C/N slightly black-odorous water body using pretreated stalk in-situ loaded with sulfidated nano zero-valent iron
Separation and Purification Technology
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Polyvinyl alcohol as solid proton donor to modify g-C3N4via hydrogen bonding enabling efficient photocatalytic H2O2 production from H2O and O2
RSC Advances
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Keto-anthraquinone covalent organic framework for H2O2 photosynthesis with oxygen and alkaline water
Nature Communications
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In geotechnical engineering his interest is principally in the design of offshore foundations, although in the past he has also worked on in-situ testing, reinforced soil and tunnelling. He also works on 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.
Much of his recent research has been applied to the area of marine renewable energy. He has carried out research on foundations for offshore wind turbines, and is currently working on the development of a novel tidal turbine for power generation. He also has a substantial group working on the understanding of tidal resources at every scale from single devices through to tidal basins.
Comprehensive Analysis of Industrial Solid-Waste-to-Energy by Refuse-Derived Fuel Technology: A Case Study in Shanghai
Sustainability
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A Waste Extended Input-Output-based Transformer-LSTM method for analyzing hazardous waste reduction patterns: A case study of Shanghai
Journal of Cleaner Production
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Micro(nano)plastics in Aquatic Environments: State of the Art and Beyond
Water
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My first research line centers around the behavior, fate, bioavailability, and effects of trace elements in the soil environment, with a view to improve ecological risk assessment and remediation of contaminated soils. My second research line is aimed to unravel 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.
A toxicokinetics approach using Enchytraeus crypticus to evaluate the efficiency of hydroxyapatite to remediate soils contaminated with rare earth elements
Journal of Hazardous Materials
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Converting coastal silt into subgrade soil with biochar as reinforcing agent, CO2 adsorbent, and carbon sequestrating material
Journal of Environmental Management
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Interactions of molybdenum disulfide nanosheets with wheat plants under changing environments: More than meets the eye?
Chemosphere
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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
Novel electrocatalytic capacitive deionization with catalytic electrodes for selective phosphonate degradation: Performance and mechanism
Water Research
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Revealing the impact of membrane adsorption on phenol transmembrane mass transfer in aqueous-aqueous membrane extraction
Journal of Membrane Science
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Tailoring Structural Property and Surface Wettability of Omniphobic Membranes for Superhigh Flux and Competent Wetting Resistance in Membrane Distillation
ACS ES&T Water
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Researches mainly in 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.
Pollution levels and probability risk assessment of potential toxic elements in soil of Pb–Zn smelting areas
Environmental Geochemistry and Health
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Environmental sustainability practice of sewage sludge and low-rank coal co-pyrolysis: A comparative life cycle assessment study
Science of the Total Environment
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Molecular insight into the enhanced performance of CALB toward PBDF degradation
International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
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Focus on emerging contaminants, including environmental behaviors and fates, trace analysis, wastewater treatability, health effects and human exposure assessments of the antibiotics, bisphenol A, personal care products and algae toxins etc. He initiated several 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. In addition, indoor dust and human urine samples are being collected and analyzed to investigate the exposure risk and human disease associations.
N-doped pierced graphene microparticles as a highly active electrocatalyst for Li-air batteries
2D Materials
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Influence of lithium precursors and calcination atmospheres on graphene sheets-modified nano-Li4Ti5O12 anode material
Journal of Power Sources
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A novel graphene sheet-wrapped Co2(OH)3Cl composite as a long-life anode material for lithium ion batteries
Journal of Materials Chemistry A
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Focus on the detection of nanoparticles and emerging contaminants in the water environment, and their environmental implications, including their behavior, 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.
The diffraction and re-initiation characteristics of gaseous detonations with an irregular cellular structure
Aerospace Science and Technology
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Experimental study on the explosion characteristics of ammonia-hydrogen-air mixtures
Fuel
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Detonation onset due to the energy accumulation effect of shock wave focusing
Acta Astronautica
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He takes the lead in 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.
Study on Nonlinear Identification SOFC Temperature Model Based on Particle Swarm Optimization-Least Squares Support Vector Regression
Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage
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An Information Fusion Model Based on Dempster–Shafer Evidence Theory for Equipment Diagnosis
ASME Journal of Risk Uncertainty in Engineering System
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A Damage Evaluation Model of Turbine Blade for Gas Turbine
Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power
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STATE KEY LABORATORY OF ENVIRONMENTAL CRITERIA AND RISK ASSESSMENT, CHINESE ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES (SKLECRA)
China
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
Heteroaggregation and sedimentation of natural goethite and artificial Fe3O4 nanoparticles with polystyrene nanoplastics in water
Carbon Research
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New insight into the activation mechanism of peroxymonosulfate by N, O-doped carbonaceous materials: Active sites, intermediates, and pathways
Applied Catalysis B: Environment and Energy
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Crystal phase and nanoscale size regulation utilizing the in-situ catalytic pyrolysis of bamboo sawdust in the recycling of spent lithium batteries
Waste Management
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SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY
China
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
The effect of thermal treatment on the transformation and transportation of arsenic and cadmium in soil
Journal of Environmental Sciences
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Enhanced peroxydisulfate activation by photo-piezocatalysis based on zinc-aluminum layered double hydroxide for imidacloprid removal: Combined radical with nonradical pathways
Separation and Purification Technology
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Electrochemical oxidation of ammonia in a granular activated carbon/peroxymonosulfate/chlorine three-dimensional electrode system
Separation and Purification Technology
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Research Interests
- Ecological restoration & phytoremediation of heavy metal/REEs polluted sites
- Biogeochemistry of transition metals
Organic-mineral colloids regulate the migration and fractionation of rare earth elements in groundwater systems impacted by ion-adsorption deposits mining in South China
Water Research
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Foliar-applied zinc promotes cadmium allocation from leaf surfaces to grains in rice
Journal of Environmental Sciences
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Novel Phosphate Transporter-B PvPTB1;1/1;2 Contribute to Efficient Phosphate Uptake and Arsenic Accumulation in As-Hyperaccumulator Pteris vittata
Environmental Science & Technology
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Research Interests
- Microbe-assisted phyto-remediation of heavy metal/POPs contaminated soils
- Microbe-regulated biogeochemical process of heavy metal in contaminated soils
Fe(III) transporter OsYSL15 may play a key role in the uptake of Cr(III) in rice (Oryza sativa L.)
Journal of Hazardous Materials
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Microbial survival strategies in biological soil crusts of polymetallic tailing wetlands
Geoderma
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Hydrogen Nanobubbles Generated In Situ from Nanoscale Zerovalent Iron with Water to Further Enhance Selenite Sequestration
Environmental Science & Technology
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Research Interests
- The fate of micro-pollutant in the aqueous environment and water treatment
- Advanced water treatment technologies
Photochemical Transformation of Monochloramine Induced by Triplet State Dissolved Organic Matter
Journal of Hazardous Materials
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LENAS: Learning-Based Neural Architecture Search and Ensemble for 3-D Radiotherapy Dose Prediction
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
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Influences of molecular composition in dissolved organic matter on its reactivity with chlorine radicals (Cl• and Cl2•−)
Chemical Engineering Journal
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Research Interests
- Environmental behavior: metal speciation, physico-chemical property of nanoparticles
- Ecotoxicology: bioaccumulatuon and toxicity of metal and nanoparticles
Visualizing and assessing the size-dependent oral uptake, tissue distribution, and detrimental effect of polystyrene microplastics in Eisenia fetida
Environmental Pollution
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High Fe utilization efficiency and low toxicity of Fe3C@ Fe0 loaded biochar for removing of tetracycline hydrochloride in wastewater
Journal of Cleaner Production
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Characterization of Neodymium Speciation in the Presence of Fulvic Acid by Ion Exchange Technique and Single Particle ICP-MS
Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
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Research Interests
- Physicochemical water treatment processes including oxidation/reduction/disinfection processes
- Environmental chemistry including radical chemistry, photo-chemistry and chlorine chemistry
Insights into the transformation of natural organic matter during UV/peroxydisulfate treatment by FT-ICR MS and machine learning: Non-negligible formation of organosulfates
Water Research
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Reinvestigation on High-Valent Cobalt for the Degradation of Micropollutants in the Co (II)/Peroxymonosulfate System: Roles of Co (III)
Environmental Science & Technology
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Comprehensive Assessment of Reactive Bromine Species in Advanced Oxidation Processes: Differential Roles in Micropollutant Abatement in Bromide-Containing Water
Environmental Science & Technology
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Research Interests
- Aquatic ecology and freshwater eutrophication of phytoplankton and zooplankton
- Biodegradation and ecotoxicology of fluoroquinolone (FQs) antibiotics in mangrove ecosystems
The relationship of total progressive motile sperm count with the outcome of IUI? An analysis of 5171 cycles
Gynecological Endocrinology
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Does elevated luteinizing hormone level before trigger mean premature luteinizing hormone surge in advanced-aged women undergoing mild ovarian stimulation?
Gynecological Endocrinology
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Effects of the Zishen Yutai Pill Compared With Placebo on Live Births Among Women in a Fresh Embryo Transfer Cycle: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Obstetrics & Gynecology
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Research Interests
- Mechanisms for associations between human health and toxicants
- Assessment of internal/external exposure to toxicants in contaminated sites
The fate and transport of neonicotinoid insecticides and their metabolites through municipal wastewater treatment plants in South China
Environmental Pollution
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Elevated Accumulation and Distinct Migration Patterns of Neonicotinoids Compared to Traditional Insecticides in South China Typical Orchard
Emerging Contaminants
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Exploring the neurotoxicity of chiral dinotefuran towards nicotinic acetylcholine receptors: Enantioselective insights into species selectivity
Journal of Hazardous Materials
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Research Interests
- Microbial elelctrosynthesis system for organic fuels production from CO2 reduction
- Acid mine drainage treatment using bioelectrochemical system
Treatment of metronidazole pharmaceutical wastewater using pulsed switching peroxi-coagulation combined with electro-Fenton process
Water Cycle
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Enhanced electricity generation of a 1.2-L microbial fuel cell with acclimation of applied voltage
Water Cycle
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Resource utilization of coal chemical waste salt by bipolar membrane electrodialysis with thermal pretreatment
Desalination
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I have been concerning on the mangrove and estuarine ecosystem ecology since 2005, and published 33 related articles until June 2022. My recent work is focused on the conservation and restoration of mangroves in Southern China. Their functionalities as biogeochemical cycles, nurseries of marine organism, and coastal protection will be considered in my research projects. Also the impacts of exotic mangrove plants as Sonneratia and Laguncularia has also been concerned.
Research Interests
- Conservation and restoration of coastal wetlands
- Ecosystem services of restored coastal wetlands
Appearance can be deceptive: shrubby native mangrove species contributes more to soil carbon sequestration than fast-growing exotic species
Plant and Soil
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Species choice in mangrove reforestation may influence the quantity and quality of long-term carbon sequestration and storage
Science of the Total Environment
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Spatial variation of soil properties impacted by aquaculture effluent in a small-scale mangrove
Marine Pollution Bulletin
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Research Interests
- Sludge reduction, sludge treatment and sludge resource utilization
- Municipal wastewater & industrial wastewater treatment
- Rural sewage treatment
Electrochemical-coupled sulfur-driven autotrophic denitrification for nitrogen removal from raw landfill leachate: Evaluation of performance and mechanisms
Water Research
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Biogenic sulfur recovery from sulfate-laden antibiotic production wastewater using a single-chamber up-flow bioelectrochemical reactor
Water Research
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A new understanding on the prerequisite of antibiotic biodegradation in wastewater treatment: Adhesive behavior between antibiotic-degrading bacteria and ciprofloxacin
Water Research
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The research in my lab focus on anaerobic environmental microbiology and its engineering applications: (1) bioremediation of persistent organic pollutants (POPs); (2) anaerobic digestion of waste activated sludge and other forms of biomass; (3) microbial mediated C-N-S-X cycles. Details could be found at our research website.
Research Interests
- Bioremediation: microbial reductive dehalogenation
- Microbial-mediated C-N-P-S metabolisms in wetlands
- Water-energy nexus: core microbial community in methanogenic bioreactors
Pre-exposure of Triclosan compromise tetracycline-derived antibiotic resistance in methanogenic digestion microbiome
Bioresource Technology
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Emerging Threat: Antimicrobial Resistance Proliferation During Epidemics — A Case Study of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic in South Brazil
Journal of Hazardous Materials
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Distribution, source, and ecological risks of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in surface sediments from contaminated urban rivers across China
Journal of Soils and Sediments
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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
Investigation of the Physical Properties in Rotating Gliding Arc Discharge With Rapeseed Oil
IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
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Determination of Spectroscopic Temperatures and Electron Density in Rotating Gliding Arc Discharge
IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
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Spectroscopic Diagnostics of Rotating Gliding Arc Plasma Codriven by a Magnetic Field and Tangential Flow
IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
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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
Biochar-Based Strategies for Antibiotics Removal: Mechanisms, Factors, and Application
ACS ES&T Engineering
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Electrochemical-coupled sulfur-driven autotrophic denitrification for nitrogen removal from raw landfill leachate: Evaluation of performance and mechanisms
Water Research
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Biogenic sulfur recovery from sulfate-laden antibiotic production wastewater using a single-chamber up-flow bioelectrochemical reactor
Water Research
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Research Interests
- Removal of nitrogen and phospurous in municipal wastewater treatment
- Research on emerging pollutants, including distribution, toxicity and remediation
Adsorbed copper on urea modified activated biochar catalyzed H2O2 for oxidative degradation of sulfadiazine：Degradation mechanism and toxicity assessment
Journal of Environmental Management
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Dimorphism of Candida tropicalis and its effect on nitrogen and phosphorus removal and sludge settleability
Bioresource Technology
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Perchlorate reduction kinetics and genome-resolved metagenomics identify metabolic interactions in acclimated saline lake perchlorate-reducing consortia
Water Research
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Research Interests
- Environmental photochemistry and photocatalysis
- Environmental nanotechnology and materials
Modulating g-C3N4-based van der Waals heterostructures with spatially separated reductive centers for tandem photocatalytic CO2 methanation
Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
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Recovering solar fuels from photocatalytic CO2 reduction over W6+-incorporated crystalline g-C3N4 nanorods by synergetic modulation of active centers
Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
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Two-dimensional high-entropy metal phosphorus trichalcogenides for enhanced hydrogen evolution reaction
ACS Nano
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TRENT UNIVERSITY
Canada
Trent University
Faculty
Julian Aherne is a faculty member in the School of Environment at Trent University, Ontario, Canada. During the last three decades his research has primarily focused on the impacts of air pollution (e.g., sulphur and nitrogen deposition) on semi-natural ecosystems and the determination of critical loads in support of the UNECE ‘Air Convention’ and the Canada-US Air Quality Agreement. During 2017 he began working on microplastics, initially focusing on the atmospheric transport of microplastics into remote lake catchments (distant from urban centres), but this expanded to an interest in the use of biomonitors of microplastic deposition, catchment budgets to quantify microplastics residence time, microplastics in arctic lakes, microplastics signatures in urban storm water ponds, and the fate of microplastics in wastewater treatment plants.
Research Interests
- Assessing impacts of air pollution on natural environment
- Microplastics
- Air pollution
- Soil weathering
- Environmental modelling
Robinia pseudoacacia L. (Black Locust) Leaflets as Biomonitors of Airborne Microplastics
Biology
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Land-Use Regression Analysis of Summer Tropospheric Ozone Concentrations in Ireland
Atmosphere
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Soil carbon pools and fluxes following the regreening of a mining and smelting degraded landscape
Science of the Total Environment
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My research areas are: the role of dispersal in insect and mite populations, stable flies as pests of dairy and beef farms, and insect diversity in the Hudson bay lowlands. I also study insects that colonize corpses, such as blow flies and carrion beetles.
Research Interests
- Insect diversity in Northern Ontario
- Invasive species
- Insect pest populations of beef and dairy farms
- Biting flies
- Insects associated with carrion
- Insect trap technology
Range Extensions of Jewel Beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) in Ontario’s Boreal Forest and Akimiski Island, Nunavut, Canada
The Coleopterists Bulletin
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The history and current state of cluster flies (Diptera: Polleniidae: Pollenia ) in North America, with new Canadian provincial records
The Canadian Entomologist
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New knowledge on the family Chironomidae (Diptera) from Far Northern Ontario, Canada, with a description of new species and new faunistic records
Aquatic Insects
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My research interests are in environmental history, the history of science, and the roles of science in environmental policy. My current projects include a history of environmental science in the Canadian Arctic, the historical and contemporary roles of science in the salmon aquaculture industry, and the history of conservation science in relation to global protected areas.
Evidence-based decision-making in Canada’s protected areas organizations: Implications for management effectiveness
Facets
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Science and conservation: A history of natural and political landscapes
Environmental Science & Policy
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Fisheries, invasive species, and the formation and fracturing of the Great Lakes system: Invasive species
The Canadian Geographer
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The EnIGMA lab, lead by Dr. Huy Dang, has two main research axes:
- Environmental & Isotope Geochemistry
- Analytical chemistry
We are especially interested in:
- The impacts of human activities on the environment. We investigate how biogeochemical processes impact the cycle of nutrients, trace elements and isotopes (TEIs), and greenhouse gases.
- Solutions to mitigate human impacts on the environment and global climate.
- Developing new analytical tools for environmental applications, including mass spectrometry, chromatography and environmental scanning electron microscopy.
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
Emerging and Legacy Pollutants in Vietnam Related to the Climate–Water–Energy–Food Nexus
Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
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Technology-Critical Elements: An Emerging and Vital Resource that Requires more In-depth Investigation
Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
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Rare Earth Element Accumulation and Fractionation in a Lake Ecosystem Impacted by Past Uranium Mining
Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
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Research Interests
- Aquatic invasive species
- Fish population ecology
- Fisheries management
Summer and autumn movement ecology of native brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) in urban headwater streams of Eastern North America
Hydrobiologia
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Boldness, movement and exploration tendency in round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) in Southern Ontario
Journal of Fish Biology
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Maturation reaction norm evolution under varying conditions of eco-evolutionary change
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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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
Lacustrine characteristics predict lipid contents of mysid shrimp (Mysis diluviana) populations
Limnologica
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No long-term effect of intracoelomic acoustic transmitter implantation on survival, growth, and body condition of a long-lived stenotherm in the wild
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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Risk–Benefit Assessment of Monomethylmercury and Omega-3 Fatty Acid Intake for Ringed Seal Consumption with Particular Emphasis on Vulnerable Populations in the Western Canadian Arctic
Frontiers in Nutrition
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My interests include climate and energy policy, particularly the planning and public engagement around low-carbon energy infrastructure. I am also interested in community sustainability and community-based research.
Brokering Community-based Research: Evaluating the Impacts of U-Links Centre for Community-Based Research on a Rural Canadian County.
Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning
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Participatory planning in a low-income neighbourhood in Ontario, Canada: Building capacity and collaborative interactions for influence
Community Development Journal
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Lessons learned from Ontario wind energy disputes
Nature Energy
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Esteemed professor of Chemistry and Environmental & Resource Studies at Trent for over 20 years, Dr. Hintelmann has been Dean since 2012 (Acting Dean since 2010). He has served as the Director of the Environmental and Life Sciences Graduate Program, Chair of the Chemistry Department, and Associate Director of the Trent/Queen’s Graduate Program. Prior to coming to Trent as an NSERC Industry (INCO) Research Chair, he held research positions at the GKSS Research Centre in Germany, and Visiting Scientist positions in Ireland, France and Canada. Dean Hintelmann’s research centres on environmental chemistry (mercury cycling and accumulation), and he has published over 130 peer-reviewed articles, ten book chapters, and numerous reports and conference proceedings. Dean Hintelmann collaborates closely with Science faculty and students, as well as Dean Skinner (Humanities and Social Sciences) to bring exciting new programming and opportunities for students at Trent.
Holger’s research interests include biogeochemistry, speciation and fate of metals in the environment, with particular focus on mercury and nanoparticles. He employs the use of stable isotopes, and measurement of fractionation and precise isotope ratios of heavy metals. Holger’s research involves field work in whole ecosystem studies and instrumental analysis using state-of-the-art high resolution mass spectrometry.
Soil Geobacteraceae are the key predictors of neurotoxic methylmercury bioaccumulation in rice
Nature Food
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A hidden demethylation pathway removes mercury from rice plants and mitigates mercury flux to food chains
Nature Food
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New insights into Hg Se antagonism: Minor impact on inorganic Hg mobility while potential impacts on microorganisms
Science of the Total Environment
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Tom Hutchinson
Professor Emeritus
Trent School of 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
Spatial distribution of soil phosphorous fractions following 1-year farrowing sows in an outdoor hog-rearing farm in Eastern Canada
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
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Chelator production by Deschampsia cespitosa (L.) Beauv. in adaptive Ni/Cu hyper-tolerance derived from fields in the Sudbury region and lab assessment
NRC Research Press
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Aquatic Invertebrates from the Smoking Hills, N.W.T.: Effect of pH and Metals on Mortality
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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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
Freshwater DOM quantity and quality from a two-component model of UV absorbance
Water Research
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Ascorbic acid in the gonads of North Sea dab (Limanda limanda) during the reproductive cycle
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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Importance of CO2 evasion from small boreal streams
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
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For over 30 years, Dr. Chris Metcalfe has focused his research at Trent on the distribution and toxic effects of contaminants in the environment. His early research focused on the fate and effects of persistent contaminants (e.g., PCBs), but his work then shifted to an emphasis on more water-soluble contaminants, such as pharmaceuticals and personal care products, and new generation pesticides. His early recognition and participation in this paradigm shift to water-soluble contaminants has resulted in national and international recognition of the innovative nature of his research program, and has fostered his participation in international research teams. He has also led projects to evaluate the distribution and impacts of the release of nanoparticles into the environment. Dr. Metcalfe is also involved in in vitro and in vivo studies on the toxicological effects of contaminants.
Research Interests
- The fate and effects of contaminants in the environment
- Water quality
- Watershed management
- Environmental influences on Indigenous peoples
Passive sampling with targeted and non-targeted analysis as an “Early Warning” of water-soluble contaminants in the Great Lakes
Journal of Great Lakes Research
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Targeted screening of passive samplers as an “Early Warning” of novel contaminants in the Great Lakes Basin
Journal of Great Lakes Research
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An Introduction to Small Island Developing States and Building Resilience to Climate Change in the Caribbean
Building Resilience to Climate Change in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Caribbean
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My research focuses on the application of ICP-MS in geochemical, environmental and life science fields for elemental and isotopic analysis. This includes fundamental studies of the ICP, for example isotope-dependent oxide formation during ion extraction. Areas of applied research include 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 and gas phase ion molecule reaction chemistry for chemical resolution of isobaric interferences, specifically for the measurement of radionuclides.
The integration of isotopic and historical data to investigate the identification of crew members of the 1845 Franklin expedition
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
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Automated separation and measurement of 226Ra and trace metals in freshwater, seawater and fracking water by online ion exchange chromatography coupled with ICP-MS
Microchemical Journal
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Oxide Formation and Instrumental Mass Bias in MC‐ICP‐MS: An Isotopic Case Study of Neodymium
GeoStandards and GeoAnalytical Research
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I am interested in 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 and in applications to watershed management, and agriculture.
Assessing and Monitoring Forest Degradation in a Deciduous Tropical Forest in Mexico via Remote Sensing Indicators
Forests
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Attribution of Disturbance Agents to Forest Change Using a Landsat Time Series in Tropical Seasonal Forests in the Bago Mountains, Myanmar
Forests
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Using Landsat time series imagery to detect forest disturbance in selectively logged tropical forests in Myanmar
Canadian Journal of Forest Research
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Naomi joined the Water Quality Centre at Trent University in 2008 and is the principal operator of all organic mass spectrometers and associated liquid- and gas-chromatography instrumentation. Her research focuses on the development of analytical methods, including high-resolution mass spectrometry, for the determination and identification of organic contaminants in environmental samples. She is also interested in environmental metabolomics. Naomi holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Chemistry from the University of Toronto.
Impact of glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicides on phyllospheric Methylobacterium
BMC Plant Biology
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subMALDI: an open framework R package for processing irregularly-spaced mass spectrometry data
The Journal of Open Source Software
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Untargeted SPME-GC-MS Characterization of VOCs Released from Spray Paint
Journal of Chromatographic Science
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Dr. Karen A. Thompson joined the Trent School of Environment as an assistant professor in Dec 2017 and supervises undergraduate and graduate student researchers within the ASH lab. Karen’s research interests include the interactions of crops and microbes, functional resilience and recovery of soil microbial communities to agricultural management and climate change, and connecting microbial functioning with process rates. She is particularly interested in the role of soil microbial communities in ecosystem functioning and sustainability, and microbial carbon and nitrogen cycling.
Inside the root microbiome: bacterial root endophytes and plant growth promotion
American Journal of Botany
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Microbial processes in the Athabasca Oil Sands and their potential applications in microbial enhanced oil recovery
Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology
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Molecular techniques and stable isotope ratios at natural abundance give complementary inferences about N2O production pathways in an agricultural soil following a rainfall event
Soil Biology and Biochemistry
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Dr. Dirk Wallschläger’s research is primarily on the speciation of anion-forming trace metal(loid)s in natural environments and in industrial waste streams. He has developed analytical methods for the speciation of such elements, particularly arsenic, selenium and chromium in liquids and solids using ion chromatography coupled to inductively-coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (IC-ICP-MS). He then 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.
Expansion of the Conceptual Model for the Accumulation of Selenium in Lentic Food Chains to Include Redox‐Controlled Generation and Diffusion of Selenite and Dissolved Organo‐Selenium Compounds
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
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The identification of selenopolythionates in aqueous solutions by electrospray ionization-Fourier transform-ion cyclotron resonance-mass spectrometry
Talanta
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Determination of selenocyanate, selenate, and selenite in mining wastewater by GC–MS using sequential derivatization and extraction
Science of the Total Environment
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Ecosystems are threatened by a multitude of environmental stresses ranging from disturbance at local scales to global climate change. I am interested in how ecosystems respond to environmental stress, which also requires a greater understanding of how stresses impact on ecosystems. My research focuses on the impacts of acid rain, climate change, nutrient depletion, forestry and metals on forest and lake ecosystems. The research studies range from long-term catchment scale programs to short term laboratory isotope tracer experiments. Information from these studies is used to develop predictive models that are used to estimate the response of ecosystems to environmental stresses.
Critical loads for alkalization in terrestrial ecosystems
Science of the Total Environment
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Macronutrients, metals, and metalloid concentrations in non-industrial wood ash in relation to provincial land application limits in Ontario, Canada
The Forestry Chronicle
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Global patterns of metal and other element enrichment in bog and fen peatlands
Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
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Université de Montréal
Canada
Université de Montréal
Faculty
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.
Cumulative Effects of Watershed Disturbances and Run-of-river Dams on Mercury Cycling: Case Study and Recommendations for Environmental Managers
Environmental Management
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Methylmercury in northern pike (Esox lucius) liver and hepatic mitochondria is linked to lipid peroxidation
Science of the Total Environment
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Exploring the spatial variation of mercury in the Gulf of St. Lawrence using northern gannets as fish samplers
Science of the Total Environment
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The Hayes group carries out research in the domains of atmospheric chemistry and surface chemistry. We are interested in 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. Another area of research in the group is studying the physical and chemical interactions of pollutants with polymer and mineral surfaces, which are important for remediation technologies and the prediction of pollutant fate.
Impacts of the 2021 Northwestern Ontario and Manitoba Wildfires on the Chemical Composition and Oxidative Potential of Airborne Particulate Matter in Montréal, Canada
ACS Earth and Space Chemistry
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Source apportionment of PM in Montréal, Canada, and health risk assessment for potentially toxic elements
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
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Transboundary transport of air pollution in eastern Canada
Environmental Science: Advances
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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.
Snapshot of cyanobacterial toxins in Pakistani freshwater bodies
Environmental Science and Pollution Research
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Global environmental and toxicological impacts of polybrominated diphenyl ethers versus organophosphate esters: A comparative analysis and regrettable substitution dilemma
Journal of Hazardous Materials
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Applying the modified UV-activated TOP assay to complex matrices impacted by aqueous film-forming foams
Science of the Total Environment
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Lie in the field of “molecular” environmental chemistry. Our group specializes 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 on metals are examining the nature of the physicochemical processes influencing trace metal bioaccumulation; in understanding how complexation and the presence of multiple contaminants affects bioavailability; and in determinations of trace metal speciation.
Toxicokinetics of rare earth element oxides administered intravenously to rats
Chemosphere
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Analytical chemistry of engineered nanomaterials: Part 2. analysis in complex samples (IUPAC Technical Report)
Pure and Applied Chemistry
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Effect of nanopesticides (azoxystrobin and bifenthrin) on the phenolic content and metabolic profiles of strawberries (Fragaria × ananassa)
Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture
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UNIVERSITÉ DE Toulon
France
Université de Toulon
Faculty
Dr. Stéphane Mounier is a researcher at the Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography. He obtained his PhD on the flux and characterization of organic matter in the Amazon River at the University of Paris VI. He works on the spectroscopy of organic matter and its interaction with metals in various environments (soils, lakes, seawater, pore water, sediments, and solids) using PARAFAC decomposition. His latest work focuses on mangrove organic matter and its fluorescence characterization.
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
Algal‐ and soil‐derived dissolved organic matter shapes bacteria‐phytoplankton interactions in a high‐altitude lake
Freshwater Biology
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Trace metal partitioning in the parnaíba delta in dry season, equatorial coast of Brazil
Environmental Pollution
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Extreme hydrological regimes of a small urban river: impact on trace element partitioning, enrichment and fluxes
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
England
University College London
Faculty
Research Interests
- Economic Analysis
- Energy
- Environment
- Human Wellbeing
- Materials
Extrapolation or saturation – Revisiting growth patterns, development stages and decoupling
Global Environmental Change
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Resource nexus perspectives towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Nature Sustainability
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The circular economy in China: Achievements, challenges and potential implications for decarbonisation
Resources, Conservation and Recycling
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UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND (UEF)
Finland
University of Eastern Finland (UEF)
Faculty
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 modeling.
Genotoxic and inflammatory effects of spruce and brown coal briquettes combustion aerosols on lung cells at the air-liquid interface
Science of the Total Environment
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Inflammatory responses of urban air PM modulated by chemical composition and different air quality situations in Nanjing, China
Environmental Research
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Is PM1 similar to PM2.5? A new insight into the association of PM1 and PM2.5 with children’s lung function
Environment International
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UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
Scotland
University of Edinburgh
Faculty
The focus of my research 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.
Research Interests
- 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
MS and NMR Analysis of Isotopically Labeled Chloramination Disinfection Byproducts: Hyperlinks and Chemical Reactions
Analytical Chemistry
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A New Structural Classification Scheme for Dissolved Organic Sulfur in Urban Snow from North China
Environmental Science & Technology Letters
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19 F-centred NMR analysis of mono-fluorinated compounds
RSC Advances
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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
Effect of temperature on organic fouling and cleaning efficiency of nanofiltration membranes for loch water treatment
Separation and Purification Technology
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Influence of colloidal iron oxide and natural organic matter fouling on nanofiltration membrane performance: role of feed composition and membrane properties
Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology
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Investigating the hydration of C3A in the presence of the potentially toxic element chromium–a route to remediation?
RSC Advances
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Research Interests
- Biogeochemical cycling
- Treatment of mine drainage in wetlands
- Sustainable urban drainage
- Hydrochemical processes in upland catchments
Xylem plasticity of root, stem, and branch in Cunninghamia lanceolata under drought stress: implications for whole-plant hydraulic integrity
Frontiers in Plant Science
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Soil microbial community, dissolved organic matter and nutrient cycling interactions change along an elevation gradient in subtropical China
Journal of Environmental Management
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Land cover influence on catchment scale subsurface water storage investigated by multiple methods: Implications for UK Natural Flood Management
Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies
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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
Ten essentials for action-oriented and second order energy transitions, transformations and climate change research
Energy Research & Social Science
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Emergence of the Shackleton Range from beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet due to glacial erosion
Geomorphology
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Activist Commentary on “Drawing on ‘Producer-Tours’: A Technique for Addressing Consumer Uncertainty Surrounding the Consumption of Fair Trade Food Products?” by Bob Doherty and Daniel Wade Clarke
Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing
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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
The effect of workplace mobility on air pollution exposure inequality – a case study in the Central Belt of Scotland
Environmental Research: Health
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Evaluation of WRF-Chem-simulated meteorology and aerosols over northern India during the severe pollution episode of 2016
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
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A low-tech, low-cost method to capture point-source ammonia emissions and their potential use as a nitrogen fertiliser
PLOS ONE
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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
Effect of the loading condition on the statistics of crackling noise accompanying the failure of porous rocks
Royal Society Open Science
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Bayesian modeling of the temporal evolution of seismicity using the ETAS.inlabru package
Statistical and Computational Physics
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A comprehensive suite of earthquake catalogues for the 2016-2017 Central Italy seismic sequence
Scientific Data
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Research Interests
- Computational chemistry
- Density functional theory
- Molecular dynamics
- Molecular crystals
- Hydrometallurgy
- Porous materials
- Energetic materials
Selective Gold Precipitation by a Tertiary Diamide Driven by Thermodynamic Control
Inorganic Chemistry
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To Be or Not To Be… Cooperative? Trimetallic Catalysts for the Ring‐Opening Polymerisation of Cyclic Esters
ChemCatChem
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Separation of rhodium from iridium through synergistic solvent extraction
Separation and Purification Technology
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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
Mechanisms behind bacteria induced plant growth promotion and Zn accumulation in Brassica juncea
Journal of Hazardous Materials
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The role of bacterial extracellular polymeric substances in geomicrobiology
Chemical Geology
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Enhanced resistance to nanoparticle toxicity is conferred by overproduction of extracellular polymeric substances
Journal of Hazardous Materials
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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
Live algal sorbents for the removal of potentially toxic elements: a review
Applied Phycology
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Enhancement of performance and stability of thin-film nanocomposite membranes for organic solvent nanofiltration using hypercrosslinked polymer additives
Journal of Membrane Science
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Ultra-permeable zeolitic imidazolate frameworks-intercalated graphene oxide membranes for unprecedented ultrafast molecular separation
Chemical Engineering Journal
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I’m a Professor at the University of Edinburgh researching and teaching topics along the lines of mountain building, erosion, sedimentation, rivers and the natural hazards associated with these processes such as debris flows and floods. Much of my work has been based in a range of settings such as the Alps and Pyrenees, but now my focus is primarily on the challenges provided by the Himalaya and the human exposure to the extremes of surface processes. I teach sedimentology and geomorphology, and particularly enjoy field-based teaching.
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
The funding comes from research councils, science foundations and industry. Active field areas include the Alps, Pyrenees, Carpathians, Balkans, Ladakh Himalaya and the Rockies.
Downstream rounding rate of pebbles in the Himalaya
Earth Surface Dynamics
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Exploring vertical component dominance in seismic bedload transport signals: Horizontal-to-Vertical Spectral Ratio (HVSR) analysis in the River Feshie, Scotland
EGU General Assembly 2024
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Impact of sediment transport on newly constructed embankments and flooding in the Nakkhu River, Kathmandu, Nepal
EGU General Assembly 2024
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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
Identifying Ecosystem Services for a Framework of Ecological Importance for Rivers in South East Asia
Water
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The nature and spatial variability of lowland savanna soils: Improving the resolution of soil properties to support land management policy
Soil Use and Management
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When citizens choose not to participate in volunteering geographic information to e-governance: a case study from Mexico
GeoJournal
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Research Interests
- NMR spectroscopy
- Mass spectrometry
- Analysis of complex mixtures
- Molecular structure and dynamics
- Carbohydrate structure
- Protein-carbohydrate complexes
- NMR pulse sequence development
MS and NMR Analysis of Isotopically Labeled Chloramination Disinfection Byproducts: Hyperlinks and Chemical Reactions
Analytical Chemistry
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Clean PDI-1 SQ: Suppression of HSQC artifacts in 2D proton-detected INADEQUATE spectra by pulse sequence redesign
Journal of Magnetic Resonance
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SHARPER-DOSY: Sensitivity enhanced diffusion-ordered NMR spectroscopy
Nature Communications
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UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
United States of America
University of Florida
Faculty
Research Interests
- Promoting sustainable agriculture practices in the Everglades Agricultural Area of South Florida
- Soil sustainability
- Water quality
- Nutrient management
An exploration of early career agricultural and natural resource scientists’ perceptions of social responsibility
International Journal of Science Education, Part B
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Quantifying the impact of different agroforestry systems on soil carbon fractions lability and long-term carbon sequestration in Central Himalayas
Soil Use and Management
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Characterizing the role of hydraulic retention time on nitrate removal indices in denitrifying bioreactors by nonlinear models
Environmental Technology & Innovation
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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
Society-To-Society Collaboration Between the United States and China: A Path Forward
Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists
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Practical Guide to Measuring Wetland Carbon Pools and Fluxes
Wetlands
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Introduction: What Do We Know About Soil and Culture?
Cultural Understanding of Soils
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Research Interests
- Biogeochemistry of trace metals in soil-water-plant-microbe ecosystem
- Phytoremediation and chemical remediation of trace metal contaminated water, soils, and wastes
Arsenic-enhanced plant growth in As-hyperaccumulator Pteris vittata: Metabolomic investigations and molecular mechanisms
Science of the Total Environment
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Arsenic-Hyperaccumulator Pteris vittata Effectively Uses Sparingly-Soluble Phosphate Rock: Rhizosphere Solubilization, Nutrient Improvement, and Arsenic Accumulation
Environmental Science & Technology
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Comparative Study of the Short-Term Efficacy and Safety between DEB-TACE and C-TACE in the Treatment of Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma, a Retrospective Study
Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment
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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
Biochar type and application methods affected nitrogen and phosphorus leaching from a sandy soil amended with inorganic fertilizers and biosolids
Agrosystems, Geosciences & Environment
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Azithromycin and Ciprofloxacin Can Promote Antibiotic Resistance in Biosolids and Biosolids-Amended Soils
Environmental Microbiology
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Assessing the impacts of biochar and fertilizer management strategies on N and P balances in subtropical pastures
Geoderma
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UNIVERSITY OF the Witwatersrand
South Africa
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Faculty
Alechine E. Ameh is a researcher with an MSc and PhD in chemistry in the area of advanced materials from the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Dr. Ameh is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Water Research and Development (CIWaRD) at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, as well as the University of the Western Cape.
His areas of research interest are:
- Material synthesis and characterization
- Heterogeneous catalysis
- Zeolite/porous materials/MOFs
- Waste valorization
- Water treatment
- Adsorption process
- CO2 capture and conversion
Iron nanoparticles prepared from South African acid mine drainage for the treatment of methylene blue in wastewater
Environmental Science and Pollution Research
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Improvement of the Oxidation Stability of Biodiesel from Waste Cooking Oil Using Various Antioxidants
Waste and Biomass Valorization
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Column adsorption of Rhodamine 6G over Na–P/SOD zeolite synthesised from aluminosilicate secondary waste
Journal of Cleaner Production
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Prof Kevin Harding holds a BSc and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cape Town, and a PG Diploma in Education from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Following his studies, he spent time at Environmental Resources Management (ERM SA) in Cape Town working on various process safety and risk assessment projects for various oil and gas, food and chemical companies in South Africa, the UK, China, Kenya and Nigeria.
Prof Harding is currently an associate professor of chemical engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg working as a researcher and lecturer. He was the co-founder of the Industrial and Mining Water Research Unit (IMWaRU), looking at various cross disciplinary water related issues. His research focuses on ways to reduce environmental burdens through the use of biotechnology, Life Cycle Assessment and related fields.
Prof Harding has written various peer reviewed publications, presented at local and international conferences and is currently an editorial board member of the journal ‘Chemical Engineering Education’.
Modeling the Influence of Intake Air N2 Content on Internal Combustion Exhaust Gases Output
Engineering Headway
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Modeling the Influence of Intake Air N2 Content on Internal Combustion Exhaust Gases Output
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A lifecycle-based evaluation of greenhouse gas emissions from the plastics industry in South Africa
South African Journal of Science
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I am an Associate Professor in the School of Chemistry and School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences (APES) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Water is my passion and my main research focus area is developing polymer membranes for wastewater treatment. Wastewater includes both domestic and industrial effluent, which both play a huge role in environmental pollution if not treated to acceptable standards.
My research not only focuses on large scale membrane applications, it also considers small scale solutions and the use of more sustainable materials and methodologies in materials development. My research into the synthesis and characterisation of new and modified membrane materials is what compliments the research being done by colleagues in my research group.
I lecture courses in Applied Chemistry and Environmental Science, with the focus on environmental chemistry.
Current research projects include:
- The use of membrane distillation crystallization to recover minerals and fresh water from high saline solutions.
- The use of polymer inclusion membranes for the monitoring of various pharmaceuticals and heavy metals in water.
- Biocatalytic remediation of organic compounds using MOF’s / polymer membranes as support.
Nanoparticle-Enhanced PVDF Flat-Sheet Membranes for Seawater Desalination in Direct Contact Membrane Distillation
Membranes
2023/03
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An Oxidoreductase Enzyme, Fungal Laccase Immobilized on Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks for the Biocatalytic Degradation of an Endocrine-Disrupting Chemical, Dimethyl Phthalate
SSRN, EID: 2-s2.0-85146908828, ISSN: 15565068
An oxidoreductase enzyme, fungal laccase immobilized on zeolitic imidazolate frameworks for the biocatalytic degradation of an endocrine-disrupting chemical, dimethyl phthalate
Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
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I hold the Claude Leon Foundation Chair in Water Research and am the Director and Founder of the Centre in Water Research and Development (CIWaRD), based at Wits University. CIWaRD exists to support and foster cross-disciplinary water research.
I am a full professor in the School of Geography, Archeology and Environmental Studies and previously lectured in the school of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering on the chemical engineering stream.
I am a chemical engineer with a passion for all things water related. I am especially interested in research which relates to the processing and treatment of agricultural, industrial and mine effluent streams as well as sewage and potable water treatment. I like the way in which water is a common theme amongst all living organisms, and I strongly believe that researching ways to reduce or mitigate the impact of man on the water resource represents my best attempt to contribute towards a sustainable future.
Contextualising urban sanitation solutions through complex systems thinking: A case study of the South African sanitation system
Journal of Cleaner Production
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Co-cropping vetiver grass and legume for the phytoremediation of an acid mine drainage (AMD) impacted soil
Environmental Pollution
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Arsenic contamination and rare earth element composition of acid mine drainage impacted soils from South Africa
Minerals Engineering
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I am the Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology and collaborate extensively with Prof. Sheridan in the Centre in Water Research and Development (CIWaRD) based at Wits University. I am an industrial/organizational psychologist and also a Certified Professional Ergonomist. My area of research focuses on human-system integration with an emphasis on human-ecological and human-environmental systems. Given the water scarcity issue in South Africa a lot of the systems that I look at include links with water including constructed wetlands, acid-mine drainage, water security for farmers, water reclamation, and water-borne sanitation systems. I also have another research theme that looks at human interactions with nature-based solutions and the mutual benefits for humans and for nature. Much of my work is about understanding how we can get environmental solutions to function more efficiently despite the complex interactions.
Characterising urban sanitation solutions through complex systems thinking: A case study of the South African sanitation system
Journal of Cleaner Production
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State of science: refitting the human to nature
Ergonomics
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Applying the sustainable system-of-systems framework: wastewater(s) in a rapidly urbanising South African settlement
Ergonomics
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