CatchmentTools – Project Website
The ‘Catchment Management Support Tools for Characterisation and Evaluation of Programme of Measures’ project, or CatchmentTools Project, developed data analysis tools and models for assessing nutrients in Irish catchments.
SmartCoasts – Project Website
The overall aims of the project are to build on the results of the partners’ INTERREG II project “Achieving EU standards in recreational waters” in applying the predictive tools developed for integrated pollution budget analysis and computer modelling of “point” and “diffuse” sources of pollution to ensure sustainable management of high quality shellfisheries and recreational water environments in Ireland and Wales.
Environmental Impact of Road Drainage
Pathways Project
The Pathways Project focused on developing the understanding of critical source areas in Irish catchment with particular focus on characterising and modelling contaminant pathways. Field studies were targeted at improving the understanding of contaminant transport along different hydrological pathways, including their associated impacts on water quality and river ecology. The contaminants of interest were phosphorus, nitrogen and sediment. The working Pathways conceptual model included overland flow, interflow, shallow groundwater flow, and deep groundwater flow. This research informed the development of a set of Catchment Management Support Tools (CMST) comprising a Base Map Exploration Tool (BMET), Catchment Characterisation Tool (CCT) and Catchment Modelling Tool (CMT).
Hydrofor (Project website)
The Hydrofor Project is a multi-disciplinary, multi-sector cooperative project to investigate the effects of coniferous forests and forestry operations on Ireland’s surface water quality and aquatic ecology.
WINCOMS
Funded by the EPA, this project examines the use of Decision Support Systems for selecting measures for implementing the WatEr FRamework Directive in Ireland. It looks at individual decision support systems and their implementation as well as how stakeholders interact with them.
Phosphorus Modelling
Ms. Iqbal M. Salih
Funded by a TEAGASC Walsh Fellowship, this project integrates the HSPF hydrology model with the SWAT Phosphorus model within a GIS framework.
Assessment of Radar for flood warning in Ireland
Mr Fiachra O’Loughlin
Funded by UCD’s Ad Astra Scholarship scheme, theis project assess the potential contribution of radar to flood warning in Ireland.
Integrated GIS and Neuro-fuzzy analysis for use in River Basin District management.
Dr. Ahmed Nasr
Funded by an EPA, postdoctoral fellowship this project develops generic tools for fuzzy modelling of a variety of phenomena in river basin districts.
Modelling of Water Quality In Dublin Bay
Ms. Zeinab Bedri
Continuing a long line of hydrodynamic modelling research at CWRR, this project applies a 3-D model to examine water quality impacts in Dublin Bay.
Including public attitudes to flood risk in multi-criteria based planning of flood protection schemes in urban areas
Fasil A. Gebre
Keywords: Flood risk, flood risk management, public perception, hydrological uncertainty, intangibles, structural, non-structural, decision support system (DSS)
The effect of flexible vegetation on flow resistance in open channel flow
Aidan Harney
Keywords: open channel flow, flood risk, understanding influence of vegetative elements, development of more accurate open channel flow formula
Water sensitive urban design
Catriona Rordan
Keywords: sustainable development, best management practices, infiltration, stormwater runoff, water conservation, water re-use
Physically-based distributed modelling for water quality management, in relation to the European Water Framework Directive
Pierre Javelle
Keywords: water quality, agriculture, distributed modelling
Impact assessment of highway runoff on aquatic environment
Mesfin Berhanu Desta
Keywords: Highway Runoff, Impact Assessment, Aquatic Environment, Management Practices, Runoff Mitigation, Highway Contaminants.
From ‘waste’ into useful material: Identifying adsorption capacity of dewatered alum sludge for phosphorus removal
Keywords: Alum sludge; water treatment; adsorption; phosphorus removal; reuse
Development of an alum sludge based constructed wetland system for improving organic matter and nutrients removal in high strength wastewater
Keywords: Dewatered alum sludge; wastewater treatment; constructed wetland
Phosphorus recovery from saturated water treatment sludge used as a sorbent for phosphorus immobilization
Keywords: Water treatment sludge; phosphorus recovery; deadsorption
