OCTOBER 2006 NEWS
Dr Stephen Smith was the guest of the Water Corporation, Western Australia and Curtin University of Technology, Perth at the Biosolids Research Symposium on 28 September
Dr Stephen Smith was the guest of the Water Corporation, Western Australia and Curtin University of Technology, Perth at the Biosolids Research Symposium on 28 September. He gave two presentations at the meeting on The signficance of organic contaminants in biosolids recycled to agricultural land and Pathogen survival in biosolids-amended agricultural soil. The Symposium was attended by over 70 delegates from the water and agriculture industries, the Department of Health Western Australia and local government, and researchers from the CSIRO and five Universities from around Australia.
Welcome to all the new EWRE MSc and Research students that have joined us this October. We have a truly international group this year with students from Belgium, Canada, China, France, Denmark, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Malasia, Monaco, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, UAE, UK and USA
Good luck to you all for the forthcoming year.
From November 1st 2006, Dr Neil McIntyre will sit on the Water Board of the Institution of Civil Engineers, as the British Hydrolgical Society representative.
In August 2006 Owen Abbe was awarded a grant by the Nigerian Government's Petroleum Technology Development Fund for the remainder of his PhD program at the Imperial College. It is a special trust set up to boost local capacity building in oil and gas related fields. Congratulations Owen.
An important phase in FRMRC project completed
Research group of Prof. Maksimovic (Prof C. Maksimovic, Dr Surajate Boonya-Aroonet and PhD student João Leitão) have completed and important development in the FRMRC project dealing with advanced modelling of overland flow for analysis of urban pluvial flooding. The overland flow module that has been completed has some unique features which distinguishes it from the commercially available software packages. It It can model realistically flow pattern in complex urban environment. It uses physically based approach (set of hydrodynamic equations) for modelling interaction of temporarily and partially pressurised buried storm sewer network and the overland "ephemeral" network of temporary ponds and preferential paths automatically created by analysis of DTM (Digital Terrain Model) using a combination of GIS tools and a set of modules developed in project. This development sets the new paradigm in urban pluvial flood modelling, it is considered to be "the next generation concept". The module developed at Imperial will be integrated with the other parts of the integrated modelling package being developed at the University of Exeter.
The progress has been reported in the RPA (Research Priority Area) meeting in Sheffield on 20 September. The representative of the EA (J. Chapman) who was present in the Workshop commented: "I thought that the progress meeting last week was one of the best we have had".
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