Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology blog

The Membrane Technology Conference and Exposition is the annual conference organised jointly by the American Water Works Association (AWWA) and American Membrane Technology Association (AMTA). This year the conference is being held on 13-17th February in Long Beach, California. They aim to explore “the development and implementation of membrane technologies in water, wastewater, reuse, and industrial membrane systems as well as operation and maintenance of membrane equipment and facilities”. As well as technical sessions, the event also offers workshops, networking events and facility tours.

Register now to book your place!

This event will bring together water managers, industry leaders, and cutting edge researchers from around the world to learn what’s working, what’s not and what’s next in water reuse policy and regulations, technology, operations, financing and public perception.

Abstract Submission Deadline: October 1, 2016

Check out the conference website to get all the latest information and submit your abstracts at: http://iwareuse2017

We look forward to seeing you there next year!

Day one (Chair, Professor Lizhong Zhu, Zhejiang Unviersity)

Comprising of two one day meetings, the International Symposium on Environmental Science was organised by the Royal Society of Chemistry in collaboration with Zhejiang University and the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

During the symposium, nearly 300 delegates attended to interact with four international speakers, who also serve as Editors of the three Environmental Science journals, and 16 Chinese speakers who are leading experts in their subject field. Sarah Ruthven, Editor of all three Environmental Science journals introduced the journals and answered questions raised by the audience.

Day one speakers

Day one:
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 5th June 2016
Kris McNeill, Chair of Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, started the first session with a presentation on Environmental Photochemistry.

Day two:
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 7th June 2016
Can Australia’s polluted urban river be swimmable again? Stuart Khan, University of New South Wales, Australia, Associate Editor of Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology began the first session presenting his research.

Day two speakers

Day two (Chair, Professor Lianghong Guo, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences)

Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts Associate Editor Heileen Hsu-Kim, Duke University, USA and Environmental Science: Nano Associate Editor Iseult Lynch, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, also presented their latest research.

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The 25th Japan Society for Environmental Chemistry Annual Meeting was held in Niigata, Japan on 8-10 June 2016.

During the award ceremony Hiromitsu Urakami from the Royal Society of Chemistry presented several certificates to poster prize winners on behalf of our environmental science journals.

Congratulations to all of the winners!

Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology winner:

Suzumi Nishimura, Waseda University

Poster title: The Estimation of the Effect of Atmospheric Deposition and the Behaviour of Trace Metals in Stream Water in Mountains Neighbouring the Metropolitan Area

And the winners for the Environmental Science: Process & Impacts and Environmental Science: Nano poster prizes were Tomohiko Nakano, Onishi Ayaka and Kosuke Tanaka. More details can be found on our  ES: Processes & Impacts and ES:Nano blogs.

Call for participants to workshop on: Indo-UK Workshop: Clean Water through Advanced and Affordable Materials. Chennai, India 8-10 August 2016.

Under the Researcher Links scheme offered within the Newton Fund from the British Council, Dr David Jenkins (Plymouth University, UK)  and Dr Vasanthakumari (BS Abdur Rahman University, Chennai, India) will be holding a workshop on Water for Life in Chennai, India on 8-10 August 2016.

Early Career Researchers from the UK or India are now invited to apply to attend this workshop. All travel and accommodation expenses will be covered by the Newton Researcher Links programme.

The workshop will focus on some specific themes:

Session I: NanoMaterials and membranes

Session I will deal with all possible materials including nanomaterials such as Carbon nanopowders, Carbon nanotubes, Graphene, 2-dimensional materials, their nano-composites; Polymer membranes and their preparation; Polymer nanocomposite membrane preparation; status of manufacturing capability

Session II: Separation / Filtration technologies

Session II is intended to deal with all the separation and filtration technologies including nanofiltration and Reverse osmosis processes, their problem areas and solutions. Also this session will deal with the cost effective technologies available for obtaining portable filtration devices for use by common man, sustainable solutions

Session III: Waste water purification

Session III is to deal with waste water treatment covering the recent trends in treatment of various types of industry water, sewage water, waste water treatment in big colonies/ townships, universities, colleges for self containment, rain water harvesting measures

If you would like more information about the workshop please contact Dr David Jenkins (dfjjenkins@plymouth.ac.uk) and Dr Vasanthakumari (directorpntc@bsauniv.ac.in).

For more information on the Researcher Links Scheme please visit https://www.britishcouncil.org/education/science/researcher-links.