Field Methods for Water Quality Surveying
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Quality and Contamination".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 17046
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Dear Colleagues,
There is breathtaking 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 for real-time monitoring of waterborne hazards. These methods facilitate monitoring of water quality in treatment works and remote locations, avoid sample alteration during transportation and storage, and enable more rapid data exploitation for immediate decision making. Miniaturized equipment items enable 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 senors provide enormous water quality data sets with unprecedented spatiotemporal resolution at the catchment scale. This rapid technology development brings new scientific challenges in analytical quality control and assurance, big data management, and interpretation for decision making. For this special issue we invite contributions reporting 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, and novel water sensor developments and their applications. We invite reports of excellent quality water quality research which aligns with the special issue motto: Out of the lab, into the field!
Prof. David Werner
Dr. Kishor Acharya
Dr. Zhugen Yang
Guest Editors
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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
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