Green Infrastructure and Water Quality (formerly Water Sensitive Urban Design)

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Focus areas and mission

The focus areas of the Green Infrastructure and Water Quality Lab in the department of Civil Engineering are

healthy waterways that sustain ecological and human life
sustainable blue-green infrastructure for protection of the environment and public health;
water and wastewater treatment and public health within a sustainable circular economy

Vision

The GIWaQ Lab uses a multi-disciplinary approach to apply scientific and engineering innovation for the provision of essential services such as water, sanitation, hygiene, energy, food, and public healthcare.

The GIWaQ Lab is committed to inclusion, equity, teamwork, collaboration and co-development of knowledge and solutions. We believe that clean water is a basic human right that should be available to all humans. We are committed to listening deeply to people and country, to better understand traditional knowledge and develop solutions together.

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Research highlights

Recent research activities

Dr Anna Lintern co-authored the Victorian Water Quality Trends Report 2022

Awards and Honours

Dr Fiona Tang was awarded the MSSANZ Early Career Researcher Excellence Award in 2023 for her contributions to the field of modelling and contributions to the Society
Dr Arash Zamyadi was awarded Harvey Rosen 2023 Award for best paper published in Ozone Science & Engineering, International Ozone Association, Pan American Group, Sacramento, USA
Dr Anna Lintern was awarded the MSSANZ Early Career Researcher Excellence Award in 2021 for her contributions to the field of modelling and contributions to the Society
Dr Anna Lintern was awarded the Victoria Fellowship in 2021 to travel to the USA to learn methods for using spatial data for precision conservation in agricultural areas
Dr Brandon Winfrey was awarded the 2021 Sir John Monash Award for Sustainability Leadership from the City of Monash

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Research grants and projects

ARC Research Hub IH240100014, 2024-2029; ARC Research Hub in the Internet of Things for Water. [CIs: Prof. Yang Liu, ..., Dr Brandon Winfrey, ... , Dr Arash Zamyadi, note: there are more than 70 CIs; only Hub Director and Monash CIs listed here].
Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action and Goulburn Murray Water Contract: 'Testing of Greywater Treatment Systems for use on Lake Eildon Houseboats' [CIs: Dr Brandon Winfrey, Dr Anna Lintern, and Dr Arash Zamyadi]
Wellcome Trust Our Planet, Our Health research grant. 'Revitalising Informal Settlements and their Environments' About [CIs: Prof Karin Leder, Prof Diego Ramirez-Lovering, Prof Tony Wong, ..., Dr Rebekah Henry, ..., Dr Brandon Winfrey, ...note: only program directors and Engineering CIs listed]
ARC Discovery Project (DP220100823) Linking terrestrial–aquatic fluxes to rectify the Australian carbon balance [CIs: Duvert, C., Butman, D., Wallin, M., Hutley, L., Lintern, A. & Canadell, J.]
ARC Discovery Project (DP220101967) Lost Mines: The Troubled Legacies of Former Mining Landscapes [CIs: Lawrence, S., Davies, P. & Lintern, A.]
Tasmanian Department of State Growth Contract: ‘Water Mining’: Recovering economic quantities of metals from polluted rivers [CIs: Lintern., A., Winfrey, B., Kessler, A.]
2020 ARC Linkage Project Untangling the mechanisms of nutrient export from agricultural catchments [CIs: Cook, P., Lintern, A., Western, A. W., Cartwright, I., Reich, P., Henry, R. & McCarthy, D.]
2022-2025, Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage project - LP200301320 Sustainable Hydrogen Production from Used Water. CIs: Xiwang Zhang, Huanting Wang, Yinlong Zhu, Arash Zamyadi
2021-2024 Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage project - LP190101124 Understanding Australia by analyzing wastewater during the Census 2021. CIs: Jochen Mueller, Jake O'Brien, Ben Tscharke, Cobus Gerber, Richard Bade, Phong Thai, Sarit Kaserzon, Coral Gartner, Gilda Carvalho, Arash Zamyadi
2023-2025, ARC LP210200490 Activating lazy stormwater wetlands through real time monitoring & control. CIs: David McCarthy, Chris Szota, Tim Fletcher, Rhys Coleman, David Bergmann, Brandon Winfrey

Outreach and community engagement

Dr Anna Lintern is a member of the Australian Academy of Science Early and Mid-Career Researcher Forum Executive
Dr Anna Lintern is the ECR representative of the Future Earth Australia Steering Committee
Dr Brandon Winfrey is the Academic Lead of Monash Sustainable Buildings

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