Archive for 2015

Passive Sampling Workshop

We hosted our successful workshop on our EPA Project “The Role of Passive Sampling in future monitoring programmes” on November 5th in DCU. The full agenda consisted of multiple speakers – our …
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Visit to the University of Notre Dame

Researcher Gillian Duffy travelled to the University of Notre Dame on the 22nd of October to visit her collaborators, Prof. Jennifer Tank’s research Group, for 10 days. Gillian brought two …
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Maumee River deployments, Ohio

Researcher Gillian Duffy travelled with Mark Bowkett from T.E. Laboratories to Maumee River in Ohio to take part in the beta testing stage of the Nutrient Sensor Challenge. This challenge is a global …
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Sensor Deployment in Dublin Bay Buoy

Last 16th September, our long-term sensor deployment in Dublin Bay Buoy was resumed. As the fully marine environment station in the SmartBay Dublin Project, readings taken in this offshore location …
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New Deployments and biofouling removal

Fieldwork keeps going for MESTECH. A fresh antifouling device has recently been deployed in Poolbeg Marina, in order to find eventual solutions to situations like these following pictures of our water …
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Sampler collection

Some fieldwork for the Passive Sampling Project as well as sonde maintenance for SmartBay Dublin has been recently carried out in Poolbeg Marina. Our visiting researchers this summer -profiles already …
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9th Advanced Study Course on Optical Chemical Sensors

MESTECH researcher Gillian Duffy has recently attended the “9th Advanced Study Course on Optical Chemical Sensors” (ASCOS) celebrated in Universidade do Porto (Portugal) from 22nd to 29th July …
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Sonde Maintenance

The current temperature of the water, around 15 ºC, allows the organisms to grow faster and they do so on any exposed surface as our sensors. Sonde maintenance has to be carried out fortnightly at …
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Collection of Samplers in Donegal

Following the deployment of Passive Samplers in Donegal that took place in the middle of May (for +info go to …
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MESTECH Summer Bulletin is here!

MESTECH Summer Bulletin available now at only one click:  MESTECH Summer Bulletin Enjoy it!   …
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