Sustainability - water

Within the Sustainability network at the University of Glasgow, there is a wealth of expertise on the many facets of the water cycle (both freshwater and marine).

Both quantity and quality of water are of global, regional and local importance.  The IPCC have stated that higher water temperatures and changes in extremes including floods and droughts are projected to affect water quality and exacerbate many forms of water pollution from sediments, DOC, pathogens, pesticides and salt as well as thermal pollution and possible negative impacts on ecosystems, human health and water system reliability and operating costs.

At the water stand, there will be staff, presentations and simulations to highlight just some of the work being undertaken in Glasgow University, including flood risk, sustainable fisheries, water quality, pollutants and human health, monitoring Carbon and nutrient export, Carbon footprinting of aquatic systems, smart monitoring: how, when, how often, for how long and using what.

• Dr David Bailey - marine biologist with broad interests, but particularly in deep-water biology.
• Professor Adrian Bowman - statistical modelling, flexible regression, spatiotemporal models for pollution, models for river networks
• Professor Trevor Hoey - Research Director of SAGES pooling initiative; river processes and management; flood risk; modelling environmental processes.
• Gavin Collins - Environmental Biotechnologist with interests in Bioenergy; Waste & Wastewater Conversion; Anaerobic Digestion; Sanitation in Developing Countries; Wastewater Engineering and Technology; and Microbial Ecology.
•  Professor Denis Fischbacher-Smith - research interests span the main areas of the UK's policy around resilience and converge around issues of prevention, protection and preparation.
• Dr Claire Miller (nee Ferguson) - Environmental and ecological Statistics including regression, nonparametric modelling (in particular additive modelling), varying-coefficient models and time series with applications in lake, river and bathing water quality and links to human health..
• Dr. Heather Haynes - Director of the Hydraulics Research (flume) Laboratory; sediment transport & fluvial morphology; ecohydraulics & biostabilisation; flood risk modelling & decision support; filter-based Sustainable urban Drainage Systems
• Dr Harshinie Karunarathna and Dr Marco Vezza -  environmental impact of tidal turbines, bringing together fluid dynamic models of the turbine with sediment transport, coastal flow and morphology models.
• Professor Gwilym Pryce - leads the socioeconomic stream of the EPSRC Community Resilience to Extreme Weather (CREW) consortium, researching the impacts of increased flood risk on house prices, deprivation and employment. He also has longstanding interests in housing supply and mortgage markets
• Professor David Sanderson - airborne and vehicular gamma ray surveys; environmental radioactivity; luminescence dating: thermoluminescence and photostimulated luminescence; detection of irradiated food; and archaeological sciences.
• Professor Marian Scott - radio-carbon dating, compartmental models, environmental radioactivity models, inter-laboratory trials, sensitivity and uncertainty analysis.
• Dr Philip Smith - A marine biologist with interests in the behaviour and ecology of exploited species in inshore fisheries and aquaculture, marine spatial management, the ecology of artificial structures in the sea, the use of scientific diving, and hyperbaric therapy.
• Tom Stevenson - Provision of Research Vessel Services from the University Marine Biological Station, Millport to the UK teaching and research communities - UMBSM operates two versatile research vessels which can provide the platform for a wide range of marine investigations, ranging from water and biological sampling to environmental impact assessments and fisheries research.
• Professor Bill Sloan - is an Environmental Engineer. He leads a group in the School of Engineering with interests that span environmental biotechnologies, low energy waste treatment, bioenergy production, environmental genomics, fluvial and coastal hydraulics and sediment transport. The group works closely with engineering consultancies, regulators and multinationals, such as Unilever.
• Susan Waldron