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Oxford Water Network April Newsletter
The next newsletter will be circulated in early May. To highlight your news, publications, and events, please email OWNCoordinator@water.ox.ac.uk by Monday 26 April. To keep up to date with OWN events, follow us on Twitter @oxfordwater and check out our website.
Newsletter Sections are:
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IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva & Ian Goldin in conversation: "Roadmap to the Sustainable Development Goals"
Prof. Ian Goldin, Oxford; Kristalina Georgieva, IMF
14:00 BST 29 April 2021 (Trinity Week 1)
Register here.
Smart Oceans: Artificial intelligence and marine biodiversity governance
Prof. Karen Bakkar, University of British Columbia
15:00-16:00 UTC/16:00-17:00 BST, 6 May 2021 (Trinity Week 2)
Register here.
Annual ONE Lecture & Launch of Oxford's Environmental Sustainability Strategy
15:00-17:30 BST, Friday 7 May 2021 (Trinity Week 2)
Register here.
Recorded Events
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We are happy to share a link to our YouTube playlist for all our recorded talks in Michaelmas and Hilary for this academic year. We hope you enjoy catching up on anything you missed!
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WaterSciencePolicy Relaunches
A cohort of (now) WSPM alum in 2020 created WSP to help share water news globally.
Read new article.
New water toxicity-testing technology ready to scale down for field use
Oxford's Dr Imad Ahmed discusses how his research has resulted in a portable, low-cost rapid field analysing device to test water for chemical pollution and toxicity levels.
Read original article.
Water Reuse: It's a Membraner!
Prof. Robert Field discusses the value of membrane technology in water reuse and its policy dimensions.
Read original article.
Building a better future for women by improving water in Kenyan schools
REACH research indicates how improving water in schools directly impacts girls and women.
Read original article.
The invisible rivers implicated in African drought
Dr Callum Munday takes a look at how atmospheric rivers impact Africa in the context of climate change.
Read original article.
Monitoring socio-climatic interactions to improve rural water security in Africa
Andrew Armstrong examines the difficulties rural water providers face in increased uncertainty.
Read original article.
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Connections
Participatory Research Methodologies
We are setting up a discussion group to share with experiences and exchange ideas on participatory, creative, visual and action research methodologies. It will be a safe space to learn, reflect and share your work. Everyone is welcome, regardless your experience, whether you want to share your knowledge, or you want to learn more about these methods. To join the first meeting and see what it is about, please send an email to: marina.korzenevica@ouce.ox.ac.uk.
Membrane Technology and Water Reuse Policies
Interested in membrane technology and its role in reusing wastewater in industrial applications? Eager to discuss the policy dimensions of water reuse? Please reach out to Prof. Robert Field in Dept. of Engineering, University of Oxford (robert.field@eng.ox.ac.uk) & Northumbria University. He and Prof. Albert Weale are working on an APEX project about this topic.
Making Connections with OWN
Have a topic or new idea that you want to share with the Network? Want to connect to others who might be interested in brainstorming or researching a particular topic? You can in the next newsletter, just email OWNCoordinator@water.ox.ac.uk with a short paragraph about your interest. This opportunity is also open to external partners who would like to make connections with Oxford researchers.
Funding Opportunities
PKU-IIASA international postdoctoral fellowship programme
Deadline: 30 April 2021
This enables early-career postdoctoral researchers to carry out research in fields of mutual interest at both PKU and IIASA. Areas of research include, but are not limited to advanced methodology; technological, economic, and environmental challenges including pollution and risk analysis; energy, ecology and ecosystems management; and natural resources, including water. Applicants of all nationalities who received their PhD within five years prior to the start of the appointment may apply and must be under the age of 35.
COMING SOON: Long-range research initiative grants
Deadline: Forecast for summer 2021
Amount: 500,000 Euros
The European Chemical Industry Council, under its Long-range research initiative, invites applications for its grants. These support research addressing priority issues of the chemical industry regarding the health and environmental impact of chemicals
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Publications from Oxford Water Researchers since the last newsletter:
Adnan, M.S.G. (2020). "Understanding flood-risk intervention: stemming the threat of flooding in Bangladesh." in UN75: Sustainable Engineering in Action. Institution of Civil Engineers and SJH Group, 88-89.
Al-Saidi, M., Hussein, H., (2021). The Water-Energy-Food Nexus and COVID-19: Towards a Systematization of Impacts and Responses, Science of the Total Environment, 146529
Armstrong, A., Hope, R., & Munday, C. (2021). Monitoring socio-climatic interactions to prioritise drinking water interventions in rural Africa. npj Clean Water, 4(1), 1-3.
Brunner, M., Slater, L.J., Tallaksen, L., Clark, M. (2021). Challenges in modeling and predicting floods and droughts: A review, WIREs Water. doi: 10.1002/wat2.1520
Castro-Castellon, A.T., Hughes, J.M.R., Read, D.S., Azimi, Y., Chipps, M.J. & Hankins, N.P. (2021). The role of rhizofiltration and allelopathy on the removal of cyanobacteria in a continuous flow system. Environmental Science and Pollution Research.
Crossman, J; Bussi, G; Whitehead, P.G.; Butterfield, D.; Lannergård, E.; Futter, M.N. (2021). A New, Catchment-Scale Integrated Water Quality Model of Phosphorus, Dissolved Oxygen, Biochemical Oxygen Demand and Phytoplankton: INCA-Phosphorus Ecology (PEco). Water. 13 (5): 723.
Hope, R., Katuva, J., Nyaga, C., Koehler, J., Charles, K., Nowicki, S., Dyer, E., Olago, D., Tanui, F., Trevett, A., Thomas, M., and Gladstone, N. (2021). Delivering safely-managed water to schools in Kenya. REACH Working Paper 8, University of Oxford, UK. ISBN 978-1-874370-82-6
Kjellen, M. and Sinha, R. (2021). Chapter 9: Enabling multi-value approaches in water governance. 2021 UN World Water Development Report. UN.
Munday, C., Washington, R., & Hart, N. (2021). African Low‐Level Jets and Their Importance for Water Vapor Transport and Rainfall. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(1), e2020GL090999.
Peters, C. D., & Hankins, N. P. (2021). Making zero-liquid discharge desalination greener: Utilising low-grade heat and vacuum membrane distillation for the regeneration of volatile draw solutes. Desalination, 507, 115034.
Slater, L.J., Villarini, G., Archfield, S., Faulkner, D., Lamb, R., Khouakhi A., Yin, J. (2021). Global changes in 20-year, 50-year and 100-year river floods, Geophysical Research Letters, e2020GL091824.
Whitehead, P.G.; Bussi, G.; Hughes, J.M.R.; Castro-Castellon,A.T.; Norling, M.D.; Jeffers, E.S.; Rampley,
C.P.N.; Read, D.S.; Horton, A.A. (2021). Modelling Microplastics in the River Thames: Sources, Sinks and Policy Implications. Water, 13, 861.
Whitehead, P. G.; Mimouni, Z.; Butterfield, D.; Bussi, G.; Hossain, M. A.; Peters, R.; Shawal, S.; Holdship, P.; Rampley, C. P.N.; Jin, L.; Ager, D. (2021). "A New Multibranch Model for Metals in River Systems: Impacts and Control of Tannery Wastes in Bangladesh" Sustainability 13, no. 6: 3556.
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