Water and Resilience Research Group
Our mission is to develop sustainable and resilient water systems that enable clean water for communities, businesses and industry.
Our water and resilience research
We aim to solve complex problems related to water, sustainability and resilience. Our focuses include:
- Water, waste-water, solid waste and odour control and treatment
- Environmental, chemical, biochemical and materials engineering and biotechnology
- Biodegradable plastics
- Life cycle assessment and sustainability
- Analytical chemistry and emerging contaminants
- Risk analysis and reduction
- Resilience and critical infrastructure
Team
Key researchers
Dr Graeme Glasgow
Senior Lecturer
Dr Mark Lay
Senior Lecturer
Dr Chanelle Gavin
Lecturer
Dr Peter Kovalsky
Senior Lecturer
Dr Megan Boston
Senior Lecturer
Associated researchers
Merilyn Manley-Harris
Emeritus Professor
Mr Tim Manukau
Senior Research Fellow and Matauranga Co-Director
PhD researchers
- James Aremu – Arsenic removal from raw water sources
- Daniel Bernstein – Biological activated carbon for organics removal
- Asaf Rachmani – Endocrine disruptors in dairy shed effluent
- Muhammad Majeed – Effect of dairy farm effluent management on endocrine disruptors in surface and ground water
- Levi Farnum – Industrial symbiosis for green hydrogen production
- Marianne Hull – Systems approach to dairy farm effluent management
- Steven Wu – Large scale continuous manufacture of molecularly imprinted polymers
- Nilakshi Dissanayake – Measurement of UV penetration in floc and floc properties using fluorescence techniques
- Steven Raynor – Multi-hazard mapping and resilience assessment of Tauranga city
- Tim Ng – Protein recovery from green wastes
Masters researchers
- Daren Yang – Plug flow anaerobic digestion of dairy shed effluent
- Kendal Buchanan – Dairy shed effluent treatment modelling
- Jiaoying Wei – Rendering koi carp
- Sohaib Al Shawakik – Solar pyrolysis of municipal sludges
- Heidi Ruegg – Hydrogen peroxide research
Research
Explore our current graduate research projects in fields of energy, water, sustainability and resilience.
Water treatment and adsorption
- James Aremu – Arsenic removal from raw water sources
- Daniel Bernstein – Biological activated carbon for organics removal
- Steven Wu - Large scale continuous manufacture of molecularly imprinted polymers
- Nilakshi Dissanayake - Measurement of UV penetration in floc and floc properties using fluorescence techniques
Effluent and solid waste treatment
- Asaf Rachmani – Endocrine disruptors in dairy shed effluent
- Muhammad Majeed – Effect of dairy farm effluent management on endocrine disruptors in surface and ground water
- Marianne Hull – Systems approach to dairy farm effluent management
- Tim Ng – Protein recovery from green wastes
- Daren Yang – Plug flow anaerobic digestion of dairy shed effluent
- Kendal Buchanan – Dairy shed effluent treatment modelling
- Jiaoying Wei – Rendering koi carp
- Sohaib Al Shawakik – Solar pyrolysis of municipal sludges
Chemical production
- Heidi Ruegg – Hydrogen peroxide research
Resilience
- Steven Raynor – Multi-hazard mapping and resilience assessment of Tauranga city
- Resilience Hamilton
Collaborations
Industry, consultants and companies
Blue Pacific Minerals, Evonik, Ligar Polymers, Silver Fern Farms, Three Waters, WSP Opus, Vertex
Public agencies and non-profit organisations
Hamilton City Council, Ministry for the Environment
Research organisations
Landcare Research, NIWA, Scion