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Development and application of Novel, Integrated Tools for monitoring and managing Catchments

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 689341

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www.intcatch.eu @intcatch

Innovative tools for water quality monitoring and management for beyond 2020

Dr. Nathalie Gilbert

[email protected]


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2https://www.eea.europa.eu/

Rivers & lakes with less than good ecological potential


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1) Current water quality monitoring:

Does not answer questions about environmental dynamics

and pressures

Does not identifying how improvements can be achieved

• Specialist • Costly • Retrospective • Low resolution


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2) Faster, better, affordable technologies…

… can collect, transmit, process, visualise and present the data to everyone


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3) Increasing interest from local stakeholders in getting involved in catchment monitoring

Citizen Science: “the involvement of amateur volunteers in scientific research”


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6Data: Freshwater Habitats Trust

Water quality in

London, UK


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• Inadequate experimental design

• Inadequate volunteer training

• Insufficient quality control / validation

• Data spatially & temporally fragmented

• Inaccurate (false positives / negatives, categorical data)

• Observer bias

• Non-comparability

Citizen science data currently under-utilized in environmental management decisions


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


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Organisation CountryBRUNEL UNIVERSITY UK

UNIVERSITY OF VERONA ItalyUNIVERSITY OF VIC- CATALONIA Spain

NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS GreeceTECHNITAL Italy

INSTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITA (ISS) ItalyATHENS WATER SUPPLY & SEWERAGE CO. (EYDAP) Greece

UNIVERSITY OF GOTTINGEN GermanyUNI. OF NATURAL RESOURCES & LIFE SCIENCES (BOKU) Austria

GO-SYSTEM ELECTRONIC GermanyCATALAN INSTITUE OF NANOSCIENCE & NANOTECH Spain

TROJAN TECHNOLOGIES CanadaENVIRONMENT AGENCY UK

THAMES21 UKENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY ASSOCIATES UK

DOWNSTREAM SOLUTIONS UKPERSONAL GENOMICS Italy

AZIENDA GARDESANA SERVIZI ItalyALGORITHMICA Italy

SALSNES Norway

June 2016 – February 2020

€7.5M


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• 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

SMART water environments


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• Environment Agency ARC boat: Current and depth profiling by ADCP

• INTCATCH boat: water quality in real-time pH, EC, T, DO, hydrocarbons, chlorophyll-a, Intelligent spectral analyser (ISA)


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Dissolved oxygen (mg/L)


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http://demoapp.intcatch.eu/

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WASCO app: real time data stream


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The Decision Support System (DSS)

Based on the DPSIR approach developed by the European Environmental Agency

• Driving forces

• Pressures

• State

• Impacts

• Responses

DSS TASKS

INPUTDATA

DSS ENGINE

DSS INTERFACE


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New sensors and technologies

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• Metal sensors based on electrochemistry Screen printed carbon electrodes (SPEs)

• Mobile genomics laboratory (eDNA)Lateral flow strips for E .coli

• Pesticides and toxicity biosensorBioluminescence


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Real time fixed monitoring


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• Each user will want data for different needs

• Data in different formats and levels of detail

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Data visualisation: during sampling campaigns and after


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ThamesmeadDO

TEC


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05/10/2017

04/10/2017

Capturing dynamic environments

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Thank you for listening!

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