QAEHS researchers Prof Kevin Thomas, Prof Jochen Mueller, Dr Ben Tscharke, Dr Jake O’Brien, Dr Richard Bade and PhD student Jinglong Li were in Oxford, UK last week presenting a vareity of QAEHS’s wastewater research at Testing the Waters 6.
Presentations:
Kevin presented a keynote address From niche to mainstream and beyond for WBE,
Jochen presented Progressing wastewater-based epidemiology by linking it to the National Census and Human Biomonitoring,
Richard presented Trends from three years of wastewater monitoring for new psychoactive substances in 16 countries,
Ben presented Determination of substance use at a multi-day festival in Queensland, Australia: survey and wastewater matched methods,
Jake presented InSpectra – A platform for identifying emerging chemicals of concern,
Jinglong presented A sensitive high-throughput direct injection LC-MS method for the surveillance of antimicrobials in wastewater.
In addition, two posters were displayed from Ben, Plastics in biosolids: impacts from infrastructure materials and global release estimates and Evaluating the impact of regulatory and clinical changes on opioid consumption using wastewater-based epidemiology.
Dr O’Brien commented, “since the Testing the Waters conferences launched in 2013, it is great to see how rapidly the field has evolved. It also surprises me how quickly wastewater-based epidemiology has moved from research only into a surveillance strategy which now informs both policing and public health policy in many countries.” Dr Bade added, “it was great to catch up with so many international colleagues and discuss the field and potential new angles to pursue.”
Testing the Waters 7 will be held in Lisbon in 2024.
