OCTOBER 2005 NEWS

Welcome to new students

Welcome to all the new EWRE students. We have a truly international group this year with students from Australia; Canadian; China PR;Colombia; Cyprus; Greece; Hong Kong; Jamaica/WI; Mauritius; Nigeria; Poland; Portugal; Portuguese; Singapore; Thailand; UK; Venezuela.
Good luck to you all for the forthcoming year.

To all new Research Students and Associates  that have joined EWRE section this October. This includes: Francis Oliver Andrew Frost,  Ilias Pechlivanidis, Abdel Beshara, Andrew Chapman, Lizzy Huang, Surajate Boonya-Aroonnet, Imogen Solloway and Guangtao Fu.

Professor Cedo Maksimovic and Dr Christos Makropoulos have produced a Feasibility study on Linking Monitoring to Water Network Maintenance and Rehabilitation for the German company ABB within the Framework agreement between ABB and Imperial College. The study  was carried out in July and August  ' 05  and the report submitted  in October.  A  f ollow-up  full scale project is expected to be granted in 2006.


Professor Cedo Maksimovic   on the 10th Oct. completed a Feasibility Study on Wastewater, Drinking Water and Stormwater in the Cities of Tivat and Kotor  on the Adriatic coast in Montenegro.  The study has been approved by the EBRD for potential funding as preparation for development of a new Marina and tourist resort in the area.

Congratulations to Simon Mathias on the award of his PhD last month. In his dissertation "Modelling flow and transport in the Chalk unsaturated zone" Simon demonstrates the importance of the chalk matrix, as well as the fractures, for understanding both groundwater recharge and the transport of contaminants. The work has provided a major step forward in this area by providing a physically-based conceptualisation of flow and transport in chalk. The implications arising from this study are currently being investigated by another of our PhD students, Andrew Ireson, using detailed experimental data obtained from the NERC thematic research programme on lowland catchments (LOCAR).

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