Innovative tools for water quality monitoring and management for beyond 2020

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1 Development and application of Novel, Integrated Tools for monitoring and managing Catchments Innovative tools for water quality monitoring and management for beyond 2020 Dr. Nathalie Gilbert This project has received funding from the European Union s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No

2 Rivers & lakes with less than good ecological potential 2

3 1) Current water quality monitoring: Specialist Costly Retrospective Low resolution Does not answer questions about environmental dynamics and pressures Does not identifying how improvements can be achieved 3

4 2) Faster, better, affordable technologies 4 can collect, transmit, process, visualise and present the data to everyone

5 3) Development Increasing and application interest of Novel, from Integrated local Tools for stakeholders monitoring and managing in Catchments getting involved in catchment monitoring Citizen Science: the involvement of amateur volunteers in scientific research 5

6 Water quality in London, UK 6 Data: Freshwater Habitats Trust

7 Citizen science data currently under-utilized in environmental management decisions Inadequate experimental design Inadequate volunteer training Insufficient quality control / validation Data spatially & temporally fragmented Inaccurate (false positives / negatives, categorical data) Observer bias Non-comparability 7

8 INTCATCH: Development and application of novel, Integrated tools for monitoring and managing Catchments 8

9 June 2016 February M Organisation BRUNEL UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF VERONA UNIVERSITY OF VIC- CATALONIA NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS TECHNITAL INSTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITA (ISS) ATHENS WATER SUPPLY & SEWERAGE CO. (EYDAP) UNIVERSITY OF GOTTINGEN UNI. OF NATURAL RESOURCES & LIFE SCIENCES (BOKU) GO-SYSTEM ELECTRONIC CATALAN INSTITUE OF NANOSCIENCE & NANOTECH TROJAN TECHNOLOGIES ENVIRONMENT AGENCY THAMES21 ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY ASSOCIATES DOWNSTREAM SOLUTIONS PERSONAL GENOMICS AZIENDA GARDESANA SERVIZI ALGORITHMICA SALSNES 9 Country UK Italy Spain Greece Italy Italy Greece Germany Austria Germany Spain Canada UK UK UK UK Italy Italy Italy Norway

10 SMART water environments Automated & RC boats, sampler Simultaneous, multi parameter probes New sensors (metals, pesticides, edna) Cloud based geo referenced data Decision Support System (DSS) User-friendly data interpretation & visualisation 10

11 INTCATCH boat: water quality in real-time ph, EC, T, DO, hydrocarbons, chlorophyll-a, Intelligent spectral analyser (ISA) Environment Agency ARC boat: Current and depth profiling by ADCP 11

12 Dissolved oxygen (mg/l) 12

13 WASCO app: real time data stream 13

14 The Decision Support System (DSS) Based on the DPSIR approach developed by the European Environmental Agency Driving forces Pressures State Impacts Responses DSS TASKS INPUT DATA DSS ENGINE DSS INTERFACE 14

15 New sensors and technologies Metal sensors based on electrochemistry Screen printed carbon electrodes (SPEs) Mobile genomics laboratory (edna) Lateral flow strips for E.coli Pesticides and toxicity biosensor Bioluminescence 15

16 Real time fixed monitoring 16

17 Data Development visualisation: and application of Novel, during Integrated sampling Tools for monitoring campaigns and managing and Catchments after Each user will want data for different needs Data in different formats and levels of detail 17

18 Thamesmead DO Thamesmead EC T 18

19 04/10/ /10/2017 Capturing dynamic environments 19

20 Thank you for 20