Objective
Cryptosporidium species are the most important newly recognised contaminant of potable water in Europe. The scientific objective of the Cryptonet.ie project is to develop a Cryptosporidium specific Microbial Risk Assessment (MRA) model for catchment waters that can be used to identify when potable water is at high risk of being contaminated The MRA will be developed for a specific catchment in the Border, Midlands and Western less-favoured region but the method will be generally applicable to any catchment in Europe.
Experienced Researchers in geospatial data analysis, cryptosporidium biology, soil physics and risk analysis will transfer knowledge to University College Dublin. In conjunction with a multi-disciplinary team (including PhD students) at the host location, the Experienced Researchers will develop techniques for predicting the spatial pattern of oocyst contamination of surface water, and will develop a risk assessment model to give an indication of the proportion of the initial oocyst population that reaches surface waters and retains an ability to infect humans and animals.
Cryptonet.ie will bring together knowledge of geospatial informatics (based on GIS), soil and catchment hydrological modelling, veterinary epidemiology, risk assessment and molecular biology. Cryptonet.ie will be structured with 3 work packages:
- spatial data collation and analysis;
- Cryptosporidium biology; and
- transport risk model development. Four experienced researchers will be recruited.
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FP6-2004-MOBILITY-3
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Coordinator
DUBLIN 4
Ireland
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