Archive
Passive Sampling Project – Mexico City and Puebla
3rd Dec, 2015
By: Lisa Jones (MESTECH).
Last weekend I arrived in Mexico city on their National Revolution Day long weekend. The city was buzzing with music and street performers.
I made my way to the city of …
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Passive Sampling Project – Arizona
2nd Dec, 2015
By: Lisa Jones (MESTECH).
On Wednesday, November 11th, I arrived in Phoenix, Arizona. This is the first leg of what will be a 6-week trip.
I would like to thank Rolf Halden and his team, in particular …
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Passive Sampling Project – Travel
2nd Dec, 2015
As part of a visiting researcher project, MESTECH Research Fellow Lisa Jones will be visiting the Arizona State University, Universidad de Los Americas Puebla and Tech de Monterrey campus’ …
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Passive Sampling Workshop
1st Dec, 2015
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
19th Nov, 2015
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
5th Nov, 2015
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
2nd Oct, 2015
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
9th Sep, 2015
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
21st Aug, 2015
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
4th Aug, 2015
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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