Service provided
Environmental monitoring and assessment, water quality and soil quality.
Description
The environment is a complex system, and to solve environmental problems often requires many different approaches.
The Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering provides the knowledge base and experience to combine multiple disciplines to understand and manage such issues.
Our staff include engineers, scientists and social scientists; together we strive for sustainability of natural resources, a better understanding of human impact on the environment, and an improvement of the quality of life for everyone locally, nationally and internationally.
Routine research services
- water quality determinations (based on APHA/AWWA/WEF Standard Methods)
- soil quality determinations
- wastewater analysis
- analytical chemistry: gas chromatography, HPLC, ion chromatography, organic carbon determinations, colorimetric determinations
Recent contracts & projects
- 'FrankenSoils' – land remediation & restoration (in collaboration with Dr Switzer)
- drinking water quality
- wastewater treatment performance – municipal to agriculture
- water quality assessment of lotic & lake systems
- source tracking of environmental contamination