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  • March 27, 2023
    WI host World Water Day Events - March 22nd 2023
    World Water Day 2022 The UN World Water Day was celebrated across the globe on March 22nd, 2023. This year saw an extremely important turning point fo...
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  • March 19, 2023
    ECIU pan-European Citizens Arenas WaterBlitz Kicks Off
    As part of the week in which World Water Day (22nd March) is being held the DCU Water Institute are delighted to be hosting a pan-European Waterblitz ...
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  • March 19, 2023
    New Citizen Science Project Launches
    Urban citizen’s 6.3.2 calling on citizens to monitor water quality in four Dublin rivers Urban Citizen’s 6.3.2 has received funding from the Irish Res...
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  • March 19, 2023
    Centennial Report on River Nore - Key Findings
    The Centennial Project took place across the Nore catchment in Laois from March to October 2022 in a collaboration between Nore River Catchment Trust ...
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  • March 7, 2023
    Historic agreement reached with Ocean Treaty agreement
    After a battle for decades, nations have finally reached an agreement to protect the worlds oceans.  Signed off at the UN Headquarters in New York the...
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  • February 20, 2023
    Post Doctoral Opportunity
    An excellent DCU Water Institute #postdoc opportunity to work with Susan Hegarty & Fiona Regan on a really interesting project that brings #Citize...
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  • February 15, 2023
    Book Chapter Published in Instrumentation and Measurement Technologies for Water Cycle Management
    Book Chapter Published in Instrumentation and Measurement Technologies for Water Cycle Management DCU Water Institute members, Dr. Joyce O’Grady, Dr. ...
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  • February 15, 2023
    EMPIRE Research Project Update 2023
    Funded under the EPA Research Programme 2014-2020, the EMPIRE Project aims to revolutionise environmental risk assessment by utilizing effect-based an...
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  • February 9, 2023
    WI seeking post graduates for EPA funded water projects
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  • January 27, 2023
    Water Institute secure EPA research funding
    Today, the EPA announced €10.7 million of research funding for 42 research projects addressing climate change and other emerging, complex environmenta...
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    January 23, 2023
    A year-long study of contaminants of emerging concern in Irish waters
    The DCU Water Institute in collaboration with Imperial College London have worked closing on a very interesting project on contaminants of emerging co...
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  • January 19, 2023
    New Publication: Livelihood vulnerabilities facing Bangkok aquaculture farmers
    A new publication has just been released by Danny Marks, Mucahid Mustafa Bayrak and John Connell titled Increasing livelihood vulnerabilities to coas...
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  • November 15, 2022
    WaterBlitz 2022 Competition Winners!
    The Waterblitz photo and video competition brings to life an array of fun, interest, love and dedication we all have for our waterways across Ireland....
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  • November 9, 2022
    DCU Postgraduate Graduation 2022
    L-R Dr  Joyce O’Grady, Dr Imogen Hands, Prof. Fiona Regan and Dr Chloe Richards      The 24th of October celebrated the graduation of...
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  • October 28, 2022
    Climate Action Week 2022: Water Café Welcomes John Matthews
    Monday, October 10th, marked the beginning of Climate Action Week. Through celebrating Climate Action Week, we aim to mitigate climate change by provi...
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  • October 24, 2022
    WaterBlitz 2022: Thats a wrap!!
    Photo Left to Right  Jamie Cudden – Smart Dublin, Roy O’Connor  – Dublin City Council, Thomas Carolan – LAWPRO, Daire Keogh &#...
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  • October 11, 2022
    A Test Platform deployed in Dublin Bay for The Next Evolution in Materials and Models for Ocean Energy Project (NEMMO)
      How innovative materials can improve longer term ocean energy device development Climate related events mean that energy supply from renewable ...
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  • October 8, 2022
    Water Blitz Up and Running Day 2
    This is now day 2 of the #WaterBlitz and we are up and running. Sample results are trickling in from every corner of Ireland and we have some prelimin...
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  • October 7, 2022
    2022 WaterBlitz is here!
    The #WaterBlitz has kicked off across Ireland today. With over 70 groups signed up to take part, it’s going to be a very exciting weekend. The groups ...
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  • October 6, 2022
    2022 WaterBlitz Kicks off tomorrow!
    DCU Water Institute partnering with EarthWater to host the 2022 WaterBlitz It’s the 6th of October and it’s the eve of the 2022 #WaterBlitz. The DCU W...
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  • September 23, 2022
    Citizen scientists asked to take part in the 2022 WaterBlitz
    Dublin City University’s Water Institute asks the public to test the water quality in their local rivers, streams and lakes The 2022 WaterBlitz hosted...
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  • September 23, 2022
    Water Institute kick off ECIU SMART-ER Citizen Science Project
    Prof. Fiona Regan and Ruth Clinton from the DCU Water Institute set off to UAB on 12th of September for the very first face to face kick off meeting o...
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  • September 19, 2022
    Citizen scientists asked to take part in the 2022 WaterBlitz
    Dublin City University’s Water Institute asks the public to test the water quality in their local rivers, streams and lakes Pictured at the Launch in ...
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  • September 2, 2022
    World Water Week 2022 - A Review of Day 1
    Source: worldwaterweek.org Kicking off August 23rd, World Water Week 2022 came at a time when the urgency of tackling the global water crisis is incre...
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  • August 24, 2022
    World Water Week 2022: Seeing the Unseen
    Source: worldwaterweek.org Commencing on the 23rd of August, World Water Week 2022 is held on the theme “Seeing the Unseen: The Value of Water”. Organ...
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  • August 12, 2022
    MONITOOL Sampling Campaign (2022) in the Irish Coastal Region
    Martin Nolan of DCU, A, collecting a spot sample, B, deploying a DGT device Researchers Martin Nolan MSc, and Dr. Chloe Richards from Dublin City Uni...
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  • August 8, 2022
    Update on Citizen Science Project Centennial, August 2022
    The two photos above show the River Nore at Poorman’s Bridge near Abbeyleix, Co. Laois (photos courtesy Tadhg Carroll) which is being sampled as part...
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  • July 8, 2022
    Water Institute Spring/Summer Newsletter 2022
    It takes time, consideration and a lot of sweat  to combine all of our news, events, and updates into one place and to try and tell our story about wh...
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  • July 6, 2022
    Water Institute 2022 Research & Publications
    Back L-R: Dylan O’Hagan, Belinda Huerta, Adrian Del Gado, Dr Louis Free,  Weili Guo Front L-R: Chloe Richards, Imogen Hands, Sean Power, Bianca...
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  • July 6, 2022
    Water Institute 2022 Research & Publications
    Back L-R: Dylan O’Hagan, Belinda Huerta, Adrian Del Gado, Dr Louis Free,  Weili Guo Front L-R: Chloe Richards, Imogen Hands, Sean Power, Bianca...
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  • July 6, 2022
    The Mary Mulvihill Awards 2022
    Prof. Fiona Regan, Director of the Water Institute was invited to present the Mary Mulvihill Award for 2022. Now in its sixth year, this year’s compet...
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  • July 6, 2022
    IMPACT project Webinar Overview
    The DCU Water Institute was delighted to co-host an IMPACT workshop webinar on the 10th of May 2022. We wish to thank all of our informative speakers...
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  • July 5, 2022
    GOAL Water-share & Water Institute Partnership Update
    Since establishing the partnership with GOAL-Watershare in 2021, DCU Water Institute members have been involved in a number of projects based both in ...
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  • June 8, 2022
    World Ocean Day 2022
    Happy World Oceans Day to all of our followers and friends! Oceans are essential for the survival of all life forms on Earth. It is really important...
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  • June 7, 2022
    Arctic Frontiers Emerging Leaders Programme
    PhD candidate Chloe Richards recently took part in the Arctic Frontiers Emerging Leaders program. Chloe was awarded funding to attend the program by t...
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  • May 24, 2022
    EPA Water Conference 2022
    The EPA Water Conference 2022 was held on 18 and 19 May, in Galway. This was the first face-to-face EPA Water conference in over two years so it was i...
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  • May 24, 2022
    Successful Citizen Science Water Quality Project Continues
    The River Nore and its tributaries in County Laois are the setting for DCU Water Institute’s latest citizen science water quality project – Cent...
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  • April 20, 2022
    Centennial Citizen Science project continues its success in Mountrath, Co. Laois
    A citizen science partnership between DCU’s Water Institute and the Nore River Catchment Trust which began in Durrow, Co. Laois in March continu...
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  • March 23, 2022
    Eurachem webinar: The practical and analytical challenges of water monitoring.
    The DCU Water Institute was delighted to take part in a webinar on analytical challenges of water monitoring hosted by Eurachem, in conjunction with A...
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  • March 23, 2022
    Will Sarni, World Water Day Water Café
    To celebrate World Water Day, the Water Institute had the privilege of hosting Mr. Will Sarni, founder and CEO of the Water Foundry for a special edit...
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  • March 15, 2022
    Eurachem webinar - Modern problems require modern solutions
    11 am GMT March 22nd – World Water Day   The Water Institute is excited to co-host a webinar on overcoming water monitoring challenges with...
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  • March 15, 2022
    World Water Day - March 22nd, 2022 Water Institute Agenda
    Making the invisible, visible 11am – 12pm – Eurachem & Water Institute Webinar         ALL WELCOME – To Register eurachem@statel...
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  • March 15, 2022
    Engineers Week 2022: Secondary Students visit water treatment research rig at DCU Alpha
    The DCU Water Institute was delighted to welcome a group of 19 secondary school students from around Ireland. The visit was part of a range of activit...
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  • March 12, 2022
    Citizen Science water quality project launched in Durrow
    A citizen science partnership between DCU’s Water Institute and the Nore River Catchment Trust was launched on Saturday 12th March at the River Erkina...
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  • March 2, 2022
    Caifé Uisce, Feabhra 2022 Clíodhna Ní Ghríofa as Nua Na Mara - SDG14
    In this strategically delayed February edition of the Water Cafe, we began Seachtain Na Gaeilge with a fantastic presentation from Clíodhna Ní Ghríofa...
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  • February 28, 2022
    Nemo Project holds its first webinar to introduce the project team
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  • February 25, 2022
    Citizen science project aimed at improving water quality in Laois launched
    A citizen science partnership empowering citizens to take part and collect data in a programme of water quality testing on the River Nore and its trib...
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  • February 4, 2022
    DCU Water Institute & Nore River Catchment Trust Working together to improve water quality with Citizen Science
    Dublin City University’s Water Institute and the Nore River Catchment Trust are delighted to announce an upcoming citizen science partnership empoweri...
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  • February 1, 2022
    EurEau - Europe’s water framework gatekeeper
    In this month’s Water Café we were joined by Caroline Greene, Communications Manager for EurEau.   Caroline introduced us to EurEau, The European...
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  • January 23, 2022
    Water Café January 2022
    Join us on Thursday the 27th of January for the first Water Café event of 2022! We will be joined by Caroline Greene of EurEau, The European Federatio...
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Water Blitz 2021

EPA release 2020 Bathing Water Report

PhD studentship in the SENSUS (Sensing Nutrients for Agronomic Advice and Sustainability Measures)

PhD studentship in the SENSUS (Sensing Nutrients for Agronomic Advice and Sustainability Measures)

Recent Posts

  • WI host World Water Day Events – March 22nd 2023
  • ECIU pan-European Citizens Arenas WaterBlitz Kicks Off
  • New Citizen Science Project Launches
  • Centennial Report on River Nore – Key Findings
  • Historic agreement reached with Ocean Treaty agreement

Recent Comments

  • A Test Platform deployed in Dublin Bay for The Next Evolution in Materials and Models for Ocean Energy Project (NEMMO) - DCU Water Institute on The Next Evolution in Materials and Models for Ocean Energy. NEMMO Project
  • Brian Mac Domhnaill on Friday March 5th, 2021 Water Blog
  • STEP Enquiries on Wednesday September 30th, 2020 Water Blog
  • Brian Mac Domhnaill on Wednesday September 30th, 2020 Water Blog
  • Thursday September 24th, 2020 Water Blog - DCU Water Institute on Monday 20th July, 2020 Water Blog

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