Field Methods for Water Quality Surveying, Volume II
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Quality and Contamination".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 February 2024) | Viewed by 826
Special Issue Editor
Interests: environmental engineering; environmental chemistry; environmental pollution risk assessment and remediation; water quality and public health”
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
There has been tremendous progress in the development of field methods for water quality surveying, from portable next-generation sequencing devices for on-site characterization of water microbiomes to novel sensors used for real-time monitoring of waterborne hazards. These methods facilitate water quality monitoring in treatment works and remote locations, avoid sample alteration during transportation and storage, and enable rapid data exploitation, allowing immediate decision making. Miniaturized equipment items allow cutting-edge water quality monitoring in low-resource settings, “where there is no laboratory”. Robust field kits for water quality assessments help citizen scientists participate in environmental research. Rapid and online water quality sensors provide enormous water quality datasets with unprecedented spatiotemporal resolution at the catchment scale. This rapid technological development provides new scientific challenges in analytical quality control and assurance, big data management, and interpretation for decision making.
For this Special Issue, we are seeking contributions that report the latest advancements in the state of the art of field-deployable methods for water quality surveying: exemplary field studies, method validations, digital applications for field data collection, transmission, management, and sharing, as well as novel water sensor developments and their applications. Above all, we welcome research which aligns with the our motto: out of the lab, into the field!
Prof. Dr. David Werner
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- portable devices for water quality testing
- mobile water quality laboratories
- novel sensors for online water quality monitoring
- case studies of on-site and in- situ water quality surveys
- intelligent water quality sensing and communications
- digital applications to support field data collection, management and sharing
- citizen science for water quality
- point-of-use water sensors
