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Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Areas

Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
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Major areas of study include:

  • hydrology
  • hydrogeology
  • river restoration and rehabilitation
  • drinking water treatment
  • waste water treatment
  • water resources planning and management

Current research activities include:

  • river restoration/rehabilitation and aquatic habitat improvement
  • remediation of soil and groundwater
  • identification, quantification and treatment options for pharmaceuticals and endocrine disrupting substances
  • reactions of aquatic natural organic matter with chemical disinfectants
  • regional flood frequency analysis
  • land surfaces schemes for numerical weather prediction and atmospheric general circulation models
  • numerical modelling of contaminants in subsurface systems
  • pathogen removal during water and wastewater treatment
  • field and numerical modelling studies on urban river mechanics
  • odour formation and control in waste management
  • basin scale isotope hydrology and sediment transport of non-point source contaminants
  • numerical and field studies of groundwater surface water interaction
  • physico-chemical water and wastewater treatment processes
  • analysis of drought characteristics
  • mass transport processes in porous media
  • formation, removal and avoidance of organic by-products of water treatment processes
  • modelling the impact of urbanization and agricultural practices on wetland ecosystems
  • advanced sludge digestion processes
  • identification of known and emerging pathogens in watersheds
  • characterization of aquatic natural organic matter
  • impacts of climate change on hydrologic variables and water resource systems
  • fate of substances in wastewater collection and treatment
  • integrated atmospheric/hydrological models
  • the development of deterministic event-based and continuous wetland models
  • distributed hydrological models
  • treatment process design and optimization

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