Justin Sperling and Baptiste Poursat were awarded the SPIE Global Early Career Researchers Award, which will fund reciprocal researcher exchanges between the University of Glasgow (UofG) and The Phutung Research Institute (PRI) in Kathmandu, Nepal. PRI and UofG have projects aligning with the shared goal of developing new, low-cost, sustainable water monitoring sensor designed for …
We are thrilled to share our latest paper published in Water Research! In this study, we examined the transformation of DOM fractions by microbial communities at different depths of a biofilter. Our findings revealed that bottom communities are better suited to utilizing more complex organic carbon fractions, likely due to their adaptation. This opens up …
Members of the research team, Prof Bill Sloan, Prof Cindy Smith, Dr Siming You and Dinesh Bhandari attended the 3rd International Joint Conference on Water Distribution System Analysis (WDSA) and Computing and Control for the Water Industry (CCWI). The conference was held at the University of Ferrara, Italy, with the theme of exchanging research, developments, …
Congratulations to Dr Elizabeth Lawson who has been awarded a Scottish Parliament Academic Fellowship, managed and hosted by the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe). The aim of the scheme is to: provide the Scottish Parliament with specialised resources, allowing it to undertake and communicate analysis which would otherwise not be possible increase use of academic …
Dr Baptiste Poursat was awarded an IAA led by RA grant of £20,000, in collaboration with Scottish Water and SepSolve Analytical. The project is entitled “Translating volatilome-based biomarkers from biomedical disease detection to environmental biotechnology system monitoring” and aims to develop a new volatile organic compounds (VOCs) based analytical method to detect early warning indicator …
On the 30th January 2024 Dr Elizabeth Lawson curated an online session on Water and Wastewater as part of the Scottish Rural and Islands Parliament (SRIP) online programme. The event was attended by over 40 individuals and organisations from across Scotland, and included a presentation from the Tighnabruaich Primary School and a Q&A session from …