NYS Center of Excellence in Healthy Water Solutions
The Center of Excellence in Healthy Water Solutions (HWS) is co-lead by Clarkson University and SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry and delivers synergistic problem-solving on the wide range of water issues impacting New York State and beyond. Leveraging collaboration across academia, industry, government, and stakeholders, our mission is to generate solutions that help protect and improve waters for sustainable natural environments, healthy populations, resilient communities, and sound economies.
2nd Annual Meeting | May 15-16, 2024
Join us at the SUNY ESF Gateway Center, Syracuse, NY
Funded Research Topics
The Center of Excellence in Healthy Water Solutions’ research focus is comprehensive, spanning multiple areas within water science from the management of water resources in terms of quality (including traditional and emerging contaminants) and quantity (including built and natural environments), to addressing the associated societal issues.
Water Resources Planning and Management
- Sustainable infrastructure planning
- High resolution mapping and forecasting via low-cost sensors coupled with advanced data analytics
- Determine water consumption patterns and factors influencing consumption via detection systems and advanced data analytics
- Identify social and policy dimensions of water management challenges
- Improve approaches to community engagement, outreach, and education
Emerging and Traditional Contaminants
- Innovative PFAS treatment
- Sensor development for watershed management using citizen science
- Materials for cost effective nutrient recovery
- Solar-energy driven water desalination
- Aquaculture for nutrient management
- Resource recovery process development for improved agricultural land management
- Conservation, restoration, and enhancement of aquatic habitats
- Predict and protect against HABs
- Hg fate and transport in aquatic systems
Water in the Natural Environment
- Predict and prevent flooding; predict and manage drought
- Preserve and restore wetlands
- Track microbial sources; microbial risk assessment
- Manage landscapes to reduce loading of stressors to water bodies
- Model sediment transport
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