Filter CategoriesAll NewsWater Institute NewsWater Institute Bulletin June 24, 2019 DCU Water Institute Helps with RBC's Earthwatch Training Day We are so proud to announce that a group of employees from the Royal Bank of Canada, Dublin where the first group of people to sign up as Citizen Scie... Read More June 20, 2019 Water Institute Technical Intern The Water Institute are seeking an enthusiastic candidate with a MEng or MSc. in Engineering, Analytical Science, Physics, Environmental Science or eq... Read More June 17, 2019 Postdoctoral Researcher Vacancy Please note the following vacancy has been advertised on the external vacancies website today,17th June 2019. Applications are welcome from suitably q... Read More June 14, 2019 Microplastics; From Fish to Humans Plastics are everywhere nowadays. This gives rise to a problem called microplastics. Microplastics are small pieces of plastic found in the environmen... Read More June 10, 2019 Sewage Overflow causes Swimming Ban in Dun Laoghaire Sewage Overflow causes Swimming Ban in Dun Laoghaire All beaches in Dun Laoghaire to Rathdown, Dublin has been issued week-long swimming bans by Dún L... Read More June 7, 2019 Our Ocean Wealth Summit 2019 Some of our people at the Water Institute are excited to be attending this year's Our Ocean Wealth Summit event in the City Hall, Cork. During the ev... Read More June 4, 2019 BlueTech Forum 2019 This week, Dr Fiona Regan & Ruth Clinton are attending this year's BlueTech Forum. The event will take place in the Kew Gardens in London, UK. The... Read More May 30, 2019 Water Institute launches its new project; BACKDROP Today, the Water Institute launched its new project BACKDROP at the Royal Bank of Canada Dublin. The project is part of the global programme of FreshW... Read More May 23, 2019 Water Institute May Newsletter Stay up to date with news, upcoming events and research projects that we hope you willl enjoy. Read the Water Institute's latest newsletter : Wate... Read More May 23, 2019 PhD Opportunity in Water Analysis by Next-Generation Microfluidic Lab-on-a-Chip Technologies Joined supervisors: Prof. Fiona Regan (Water Institute @ DCU) and Prof. Jens Ducrée (FPC@DCU) Water represents a key resource of our lives and its quality has major impact on our health, environment and economies. The water we access through in... Read More May 23, 2019 DCU Water Institute PhD IN MARINE BIOFOULING: A study investigating community impacts on biofilm formation on bio-inspired textured materials. Studies will involve development of textured surfaces... Read More May 23, 2019 European Council takes the Final Step on banning Single-Use Plastics The European Council approved a single-use plastics ban, which will come into force in Ireland by 2021. This includes the top 10 plastic items that ar... Read More May 22, 2019 PhD Opportunities The Water Institute is looking for enthusiastic PhD candidates to take part in some projects that we are currently undergoing! These projects are a Ph... Read More May 20, 2019 Pesticide exceedances in Drinking Water On May 13th 2019, Irish Water issued a press release regarding the exceedances of pesticides. Pesticides have been found to be present in numerous sou... Read More May 17, 2019 Truly Inspirational! Inspirefest 2019 commenced on Thursday May 16th at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre and the DCU Water Institute exhibition was very well received by atten... Read More May 16, 2019 DCU Hosts a Conference about the UN Sustainable Development Goals DCU recently held a one-day conference about the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The day consisted of scholars across all faculties of the un... Read More May 13, 2019 FOG collaboration aims to hit all Stakeholders The Water Institute is delighted to have collaborated with FOG.ie through an Enterprise Ireland Innovation Voucher Scheme over the past number of mont... Read More May 7, 2019 The 4th Water Café Hosted by the Water Institute The Water Institute hosted its 4th Water Café with guest speaker Kathy Grassick, Sales Operating Manager for the Irish & UK division of Agilent. T... Read More May 2, 2019 Sustainable Development Goals conference taking place in DCU DCU will tomorrow (May 2nd) host a one-day conference and workshop, DCU and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG): Recognising and Enhancing our Res... Read More April 18, 2019 TOBIN Consulting Engineers & Water Institute Cement Piping Scope Success! Following a collaboration through an Enterprise Ireland Innovation Voucher, the DCU Water Institute and TOBIN Consulting Engineering are delighted to ... Read More April 17, 2019 The public urged to help in preventing "Fatberg" occurrences It was issued by Irish Water to householders to stop pouring fats, oils, and grease (FOG) down drains to prevent sewers being blocked all across Irela... Read More April 16, 2019 Unsafe Levels of Lead Found in Tapwater Tests from Irish Water showed that lead levels in drinking water were above the limit by 15 in the North Dublin area, and is found to be unsafe in oth... Read More April 12, 2019 Irish Water moves closer to a sewage free Ireland Irish Water is closer to completely removing raw sewage in Cork Lower Harbour with the Cobh to Monkstown Estuary Crossing contract award. This is amaz... Read More April 10, 2019 Water Fleas as a Pollutant Warning https://dcuwater.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/mp4-large.mp4 The researchers we have at DCU continue to work on groundbreaking subjects! We are wor... Read More April 8, 2019 €10m fund launched to protect native Pearl Mussel The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed T.D on 29th March, launched a new €10m scheme t... Read More March 22, 2019 Technology, bio-design and data analytics to the fore on World Water Day as Institute launch ambitious new plan A new three year strategic plan launched by the Dublin City University Water Institute today (Friday, March 22nd) has prioritised harnessing the poten... Read More March 21, 2019 WI and EWT collaboration on Water Hardness Project The DCU Water Institute is delighted to partner with EW Technologies for a very interesting water-health related project. The aim of the project is ca... Read More March 15, 2019 Headline - DCU now a member of UN SDSN Dr. Rob Gillanders and Dr. Roisin Lyons recently made a successful application to the UN's Sustainable Development Solutions Network and very are hap... Read More March 13, 2019 Monitool Newsletter The MONITOOL project aims to provide a robust database of dissolved and labile metal concentrations in transitional and coastal waters for... Read More March 8, 2019 WI wins double at Irish Lab Awards Last night, the place to be was at the Ballsbridge Hotel, Dublin where the fully packed prestigious annual Irish Laboratory Awards took place. The imp... Read More March 6, 2019 #Engsweek2019 - SaltGae - First of its kind in Saline WWT SaltGae is developing and demonstrating a techno-economically viable solution for the treatment of saline wastewater from Food & Beverage industry... Read More March 4, 2019 #Engweek2019 kicks off with WI showcase of Projects NEMMO - Next Evolution in Materials and Models for Ocean energy The DCU Water Institute in partnership with the Advanced Processing Technology Centre... Read More March 3, 2019 World Water Day 22nd March 2019 This month is we will be holding a series of themed events around World Water Day which will take place on March 22nd. We will be holding our Water Ca... Read More February 27, 2019 Dublin Bay Raw Sewerage Leaks - WI call for immediate action A failure at the waste water treatment facility at Ringsend, Dublin occurr... Read More February 22, 2019 WI Celebrates Engineering Talent As it is #engineersweek in the USA this week and we are thrilled to give an overview of our Engineering Laboratory and celebrate the amazing skill set... Read More February 20, 2019 Bulletin No. 13 View the Christmas Newsletter here. Read More February 18, 2019 PhD Opportunity in Water Analysis by Next-Generation Microfluidic Lab-on-a-Chip Technologies Joined supervisors: Prof. Fiona Regan (Water Institute @ DCU) and Prof. Jens Ducrée (FPC@DCU) Water represents a key resource of our lives and its ... Read More February 11, 2019 Dr. Jenny Lawler - Nominated - Young Leader of the Year This week and last week we focused a lot of our news on the talent, skills and connectivity as a University and we demonstrated our partnership with D... Read More February 4, 2019 Water Institute Expand Team We are pleased to announce the recent hiring of Dr. Ivan Maguire to the position of technical consultant at the Water Institute in DCU. Dr. Ivan Magui... Read More January 18, 2019 Water Institute Member awarded SIRG Water Institute member Dr. Konstantinos Gkrintzalis has been awarded an SFI Starting Investigator Research Grant (SIRG). The SFI Starting Investigator... Read More January 15, 2019 Applications for Enterprise Ireland Innovation Vouchers Its been a very busy start to the year for the Water Institute but want to let all of our contacts know that the applications are now open for Enterpr... Read More December 13, 2018 TOBIN Consulting Engineers & DCU Water Institute announce research collaboration In a joint effort to address a particular drinking water distribution issue, TOBIN Consulting Engineers, an Irish en... Read More December 5, 2018 Dr. Jenny Lawler represents DCU Water Institute as part of a strategic delegation to Qatar Water pressures in the gulf co-operation countries remain challenging, with minimal fresh water sources and grave concerns over security and sustainab... Read More November 30, 2018 "Xylem-leads insights at DCU Water Café" Xylem kicked off the November #DCUWaterCafe with some really interesting topics of discussion at DCU today. Ben Johnson - Technical Sales Manager ... Read More November 21, 2018 DCU Water Institute Showcase highlights the power of collaboration When you set up an Institute to bring people together under a common theme – in this case the global need for clean and safe water – it’s encouraging ... Read More November 12, 2018 Water Institute holds first Water Café The Water Institute held its first Water Café last week where the sun shone and allowed us to hold it on the Invent sun terrace. The speaker on the da... Read More November 8, 2018 Water Institute train with Nordic Networks for future projects The DCU Water Institute principle investigators Dr Yan Delauré and Dr Rob Gillanders met with colleagues from the Nordic Water Network at TU Berlin to... Read More October 16, 2018 Water Institute & Ambisense Joint Venture Awarded Small Business Innovation Research Fund A Water Institute and Ambisense collaboration has been awarded the Enterprise Ireland Small Business Innovation Research fund (SBIR). The fund will al... Read More October 9, 2018 DCU Water Institute partnership with University of South Australia continues to grow…. Ivan Maguire PhD student visits the South Australian Node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF-SA) Initially, a visit to the Sou... Read More September 27, 2018 Project title: IMPACT - Innovative monitoring to prioritise contaminants of emerging concern for Ireland Project Partners: KCL, TCD, CSIC, Lead PIs: Blánaid White, Fiona Regan Funded by: EPA Project Summary: This project will provide a detailed insi... Read More September 5, 2018 Hosepipe bans are too little, too late - read Prof. Fiona Regan, Director Hosepipe bans are too little, too late - read Prof. Fiona Regan, Director https://bit.ly/2wEEKXF Read More August 22, 2018 DCU Water Institute chosen as a Global Team for GCSO project The Water Institute at DCU is one of 4 internationally recognised universities to take part in the project Facilitating Evidence-based Decision-making... Read More August 22, 2018 DCU Water Institute to attend World Water Week Ruth Clinton our Water Innovation Officer will be attending World Water Week in Stockholm on starting 26th August 2018. World Water Week consists of m... Read More August 21, 2018 Commemoration of Marine Biologist Maude Delap - Victorian Jelly Fish Expert at Kerry Festival The Chamber Music Festival on Valentia Island Co. Kerry between 16th and 19th August 2018. During the festival there was a commemoration of Maude Dela... Read More August 17, 2018 DCU Water Conservation Campaign DCU Water Institute and DCU Estates have joined forces to initiate a campaign on conserving water throughout all of the campus'. It is estimated that ... Read More July 31, 2018 Bulletin No. 12 July 2018 PhD Position Available at DCU Water Institute A collaborative project that will look at the use of data for... Read More July 17, 2018 PhD Position Available at DCU Water Institute This is a collaborative project that will look at the use of data for catchment scale water management. It will explore opportunities in digitising in... Read More July 17, 2018 Chloe Richards - Visit to Université de Toulon Research student Chloe Richards, is visiting Université de Toulon in France on Monday the 16th. She will visit there while Prof. Fiona Regan is a visi... Read More July 2, 2018 Seafest 2018 The Water Institute attended the Our Ocean Wealth Summit 2018 and Trade Show to demonstrate some of our current marine based projects. Chloe Richar... Read More June 7, 2018 MONITOOL celebrates its second partners meeting under the frame of IPSW2018 MONITOOL project members at Dublin City University during the 2nd partners’ meeting (May 2018). The second partners meeting of MONITOOL took place ... Read More May 29, 2018 Bulletin No. 11 May 2018 Researcher Highlight: Alisson Dégousée Alisson carried out her Master internship with the DCU Water Institut... Read More May 28, 2018 Researcher Highlight: Alisson Dégousée visits the DCU Water Institute from Mont Blanc, France Alisson Dégousée graduated with a BSc in Chemistry from University Savoie Mont Blanc, France in 2017. She continued on her academic career, undertakin... Read More May 22, 2018 Delighted to have hosted the 10th IPSW conference on passive sampling at DCU this May 9-11th The 10th International Passive Sampling Workshop and Symposium was a great success. Over 100 delegates from across the world gathered to exchange t... Read More May 9, 2018 10th International Passive Sampling Workshop (IPSW) May 9th - 11th The 10th annual International Passive Sampling Workshop and Symposium (IPSW) is currently being hosted in DCU. Experts on passive sampling from all ov... Read More May 3, 2018 DCU Water Institute's Dr Jenny Lawler on how “Membranes could help tackle microplastics problem in drinking water” Dr Jenny Lawler of DCU is fascinated by how membranes work, and her research is helping to filter out the bad from the good. To find out more from ... Read More April 5, 2018 Spring Graduation Ceremony DCU Water Institute Celebrates Dr Gillian Duffy graduates with PhD in water sensing Gillian completed her PhD in the School of Chemical Sciences in water quality sensing having d... Read More March 22, 2018 Celebrate World Water Day March 22nd - Solutions in Nature for Wastewater Management Learn about our work on technologies for wastewater management in agriculture The main objective of the EXEMPLAR project is to improve wastewater treatment in meat processing plants with a focus on sustainability, co... Read More February 21, 2018 Post Doctoral Research Position at DCU Water Institute Read More February 5, 2018 PhD Positions in IMPACT at DCU Water Institute We are seeking to recruit 2 PhD students as part of the EPA funded IMPACT project. The successful students will form part of a multi-institute interna... Read More December 14, 2017 DCU UniSA Sensors Workshop November 28th- 29th 2017 DCU and University South Australia discuss sensing technologies The presence of established channels that allow e... Read More November 22, 2017 MARIABOX - Marine algal toxin sensor tested with SmartBay Galway A collaborative EU project to build biosensors to protect seawater from algal blooms In our sea waters globally, there currently exists a myriad of... Read More October 24, 2017 Underwater Discovery Being Made Easier by DCU Water Institute Researchers Cabled observations are used in order to relay compromised data to scientists, particularly when located in remote parts of the ocean. The... Read More September 14, 2017 MONITOOL Partners Visit DCU Today in DCU we welcome partners on the Interreg project MONITOOL: New tools for monitoring the chemical status in transitional and coastal waters und... Read More July 27, 2017 Bulletin No. 10 Message from The Water Institute The DCU Incorporation Programme, the coming together of St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, Mater Dei Insti... Read More July 18, 2017 ALICE Project News As part of collaboration between the ESIPP and ALICE (H2020 RISE) projects, Dr Lorna Fitzsimons has been on secondment to Northern Ireland Water for 4... Read More July 18, 2017 Congratulations Water Institute PI Lorna Fitzsimons Congratulations to Water Institute PI Lorna Fitzsimons on the publication of her article entitled "Design and implementation of a performance assessme... Read More July 5, 2017 Field Testing of Optical Phosphate Sensor in Indiana As part of our Naughton Fellowship project "Development and optimisation of optical sensors for continuous, real-time monitoring of eutrophying nutrie... Read More June 23, 2017 Bulletin No.9 DCU’S WATER INSTITUTE: SOLVING GLOBAL PROBLEMS Water Institute Director, Prof Fiona Regan is featured in the online website www.dublin.ie detailing t... Read More June 22, 2017 16th International Conference on Chemistry and the Environment This year marked the 16th ICCE conference and was hosted by the Norwegian Chemical Society (NKS) in Oslo, Norway. The conference addressed scientist... Read More June 19, 2017 Water Institute shortlisted for Marine Industry Awards! We are delighted to announce the shortlisting of MESTECH @ The Water Institute, Dublin City University in two categories in this ... Read More June 19, 2017 The European Biomass Conference and Exhibition (EUBCE) Water Institute PI Dr. Lorna Fitzsimons attended the European Biomass Conference and Exhibition (EUBCE) in Stockholm last week, where she presented h... Read More June 6, 2017 Workshop on Spectroscopy and Optics for secondary level students The School of Physical Sciences at Dublin City University will host a workshop on Spectroscopy and Optics for secondary level students.The workshop wi... Read More May 30, 2017 MONITOOL Heartfelt congratulations to Water Institute PI's Blanaid White and Fiona Regan on their success in achieving funding for their Interreg proposal MONI... Read More May 16, 2017 Collaboration agreement between University South Australia and DCU Water Institute We are delighted to announce the collaboration agreement between University South Australia and DCU Water Institute, to pave the way for future collab... Read More May 15, 2017 Bulletin No.8 World Water Day March 22nd 2017 DCU Water Institute celebrated World Water Day on March 22nd, with a day of events here in DCU featuring i... Read More March 22, 2017 Happy World Water Day today, March 22nd We look forward to seeing you all at our events which kick off at 1pm today in Stokes Building Foyer! Read More March 22, 2017 IBM & DCU announce new Internet of Things Collaboration to mark World Water Day To mark World Water Day, IBM and DCU Water Institute have today announced a collaborative research pilot to leverage Internet of Things (I... Read More March 21, 2017 Research & Innovation Conference, Citywest Great conference with some great and informative talks. Delighted to catch up with old colleagues from the Irish Research Council and thor... Read More March 21, 2017 Detecting Peatland Drains with Object Based Image Analysis We are delighted to announce the publication Detecting Peatland Drains with Object Based Image Analysis by our DCU Water Institute PI, Dr. John Connol... Read More March 21, 2017 Congratulations to our DCU Water Institute PI Dr. Lorna Fitzsimons Congratulations to our DCU Water Institute PI Dr. Lorna Fitzsimons on the recent coverage of her work in Resource consumption and process performance ... Read More March 11, 2017 Journal of Materials Science Publication Great work! DCU Water Institute's Director, Prof Fiona Regan is published in the Journal of Materials Science. The influence of surface topography ... Read More March 10, 2017 Bulletin No. 7 Our latest edition of the DCU Water Institiute Bulletin focuses on sustainability in water. Growing pressure on water resources, from popu... Read More February 16, 2017 Bulletin No. 6 DCU Water Institute is delighted to announce a number of new project awards that have been recently won by our Principal Investigators. Th... Read More February 15, 2017 DCU Water Institute Chapter Publication DCU Water Institute researcher Dian Zhang is celebrating the publication of his chapter in Geo for Marine and Coastal Management. Geoinformatics fo... Read More February 13, 2017 Bulletin No. 5 Message from DCU Water Institute DCU Water Institute is excited to commence 2017 and to continue to grow our Institut... Read More February 12, 2017 New Water Institute Publication Well done to DCU Water Institute PI Jenny Lawler on her recent publications on ultrafiltration membranes: Antifouling hybrid ultrafiltration membranes... Read More January 21, 2017 New Water Institute Principal Investigators DCU Water Institute are delighted to announce three new Principal Investigators who are joining DCU Water Institute. The three new members... Read More January 9, 2017 Happy New Year from DCU Water Institute! Read More December 13, 2016 Bulletin No. 4 Welcome to our Water Institute December bulletin DCU Water Institute have been busy amassing multiple projects since ... Read More October 30, 2016 Bulletin No. 3 Welcome to our Water Institute November bulletin. Our recent DCU Water Institute conference, "IWA Regional Conference on Diffuse Pollution... Read More September 4, 2016 World Water Week DCU Water Institute’s Project Manager, Jane Wall, attended World Water Week in Stockholm this week. The event commenced on August 28th and... Read More August 2, 2016 Silicon Republic Article on DCU Sensor Researchers in the Arctic DCU Researcher Senses Marine Change in Extreme Conditions The whole world’s a lab for DCU researcher Dr Margaret McCaul, who is working on sensor tec... Read More June 8, 2016 European Success for Water Institute Saltgae - Demonstration project to prove the techno-economic feasibility of using algae to treat saline wastewater from the food industry. The DCU ... Read More June 2, 2016 Congratulations to our Water Institute Principal Investigators on the publication of their Report Wastewater treatment is a resource-intensive process that utilises several inputs, such as energy, chemicals and water, to produce an effluent that me... Read More May 5, 2016 Bulletin No. 2 Read More May 5, 2016 Water Institute PI, Dr Greg Foleys Article in Engineers Journal Membrane filtration – a versatile suite of technologies, but no panacea - Greg Foley outlines the application of membrane filtration in an engineering... Read More February 18, 2016 EPA Launches Strategic Plan EPA Launches its Strategic Plan 2016-2020 - 'Our Environment, Our Wellbeing' Introduction from Laura Burke, EPA Director General This Strategic ... Read More January 23, 2016 Silicon Republic Article DCU Water Institute takes place on Monday 25th - 29th January, in DCU, Engineering Building. The events of the week, along with coverage of WI PI Jenn... Read More December 22, 2015 PSP - Adios Mexico - Feliz Navidad! The end of the trip; 5 currencies, 4 languages, 6 timezones and 11 flights. This last weekend was all about seeing as much of Mexico City as possible.... Read More December 15, 2015 Congratulations Dr. Ciprian Heartfelt congratulations to Ciprian Briciu-Burghina on the successful completion of his Viva earlier today! Read More December 7, 2015 PSP – Cuba Libre! In the middle of all this water sampling there was just enough time to pop across the Caribbean to Cuba for a week. A nice break from water sampling, ... Read More November 3, 2015 Huge Congratulations to Water Institute P.I Dr. Jenny Lawler!! Dr. Jenny Lawler just received word that her medium scale EPA Project Proposal has been successful. The project title is “The Occurrence and Impact of... Read More
