Water quality researcher

Joined March 2020
During our visit to Makassar, I had the opportunity to visit the village of Batua to see the work of RISE - an Australian funded climate resilience project. It includes flood-resistant pathways, rainwater harvesting systems, septic tanks and new ways to treat waste water.
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Reported yesterday: 10 new local cases and no new cases acquired overseas. - 15,858 vaccine doses were administered - 26,180 test results were received More later: dhhs.vic.gov.au/victorian-co… #COVID19Vic #COVID19VicData
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'Torpedo' device targets SARS-CoV-2 hotspots in wastewater - @MonashUni scimex.org/newsfeed/covid-br…
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David McCarthy retweeted
SA Health is using new high-tech water testing to get ahead of the next COVID wave. Submarine-like devices are being sent swimming through our wastewater with positive detections already on the rise. | @HannahFoord10
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Torpedo vs. 24 h composite vs. tampon.
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Replying to @EPHM_Lab
David, First go with your Torpedo passive samplers yielded positive results - used in a location where we would have expected positives I might add - but so far so good ! (Photo-post exposure of one of the filters).
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Replying to @medrxivpreprint
⁦@medrxivpreprint ⁩ medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/… disq.us/t/3t9b1jq Congratulations Pengbo, Christine et. al! GREAT work. We recently uploaded our pre-print on this topic from the Australian context. Please check it out: dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.2…
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