Award of ARC Linkage Project - Mitigating the risk of cyanobacterial blooms in wastewater ponds.
Congratulations to Professor Brett Neilan on being awarded an ARC Linkage Project Grant entitled Mitigating the risk of cyanobacterial blooms in wastewater ponds for $456,527 for the period 2019-2021.
The project aims to understand the causes of cyanobacterial blooms in pond-based wastewater treatment plants and the risk they pose. Cyanobacterial blooms in wastewater treatment plants impact on effluent quality and the utility of recycled water, posing a significant risk to the economy, the environment and public health.
To understand the causes of cyanobacterial blooms in pond-based wastewater treatment plants and the risk they pose, this project will use the latest molecular techniques to examine how the microbial communities within these systems interact with each other and their surrounding environment to form blooms and produce toxins and other harmful metabolites. Such knowledge will inform risk assessment and provide strategies for the mitigation of future bloom events, improving the security of our increasingly valuable recycled water resources.
This research will be undertaken with researchers from The University of Western Australia and the University of Melbourne working with the partner organisation, Melbourne Water Corporation.
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