Freshwater Quality Programme webinar - PACIFIC project update

A presentation on the progress of the PACIFIC project from Dr Kishore Jagadeesan (University of Bath), Dr Holly Tipper (UK Centre for Ecology and Hyrdology), and Dr Samuel MacAulay (University of Oxford), with Dr Daniel Read (UKCEH)

Project information:

PAthways of Chemicals Into Freshwaters and their ecological ImpaCts (PACIFIC)

This £1.6 million project will identify new approaches for understanding the impacts of micropollutants on freshwater ecosystems, with an emphasis on the microbial communities that underpin freshwater biogeochemical cycles and ecological health. Using a combination of genomics and functional assays, the project will develop tools to better diagnose and predict how the health of freshwater ecosystem will change in the future.

Field sites: the River Thames and Bristol Avon catchments, southern England, with locations chosen to coincide with Wastewater Treatment Works to understand how chemicals in sewage effluents contribute to chemical burden and ecological impacts across land use gradients.

Led by Dr Daniel Read, UK Centre of Ecology & Hydrology, including partners University of Bath, University of Oxford, and the Environment Agency.