Tauranga Regional Meeting
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Water New Zealand Meeting
Presentations:
Femke Rambags is a PhD candidate at the University of Waikato with a broad background in water resource management . Her interest in water management and curiosity for tackling water management related problems led her to pursue an MSc in Hydrology at the University of Utrecht and a second MSc in International Land and Water Management at Wageningen University. After graduating, she was able to further explore her interests at KWR Watercycle Research Institute (the Netherlands), where she had the chance to work on a broad range of hydrological issues. The work especially introduced her to the real-life hurdles faced by research institutes in bridging the gaps between scientific knowledge and practical solutions to societal problems. Her longstanding affinity for water management in foreign countries, sparked by internships in Benin and Spain, led her to pursue a PhD in New Zealand.
As a PhD candidate she is currently investigating the use denitrifying bioreactors for improving the performance of on-site decentralized wastewater management. In her presentation she will introduce the concept of denitrifying bioreactors, which are basically containers filled with a carbon source to support growth of denitrifying bacteria for nitrate removal, as low cost and simple technologies for wastewater treatment and give an overview of the work she has done on these systems during the last 2.5 years. The project is conducted in collaboration with NIWA’s programme “Resilient Marae and community waste and wastewater infrastructure”. Femke is supervised by Louis Schipper (University of Waikato) and Chris Tanner (NIWA).
Wang Me holds a Bachelor degree (B.Sc.) in hydrology and water resources at Hohai University, Nanjing, China. For the sake of further research, she was offered a Ph.D. study and supervised by Profs. David Hamilton and Brendan Hicks at the University of Waikato. She has recently submitted her thesis on modelling temporal dynamics of discharge and nutrient loading from a mixed land use catchment to a eutrophic, temperate lake.
Wang will present part of her Ph.D. on modelling the effects of treated municipal wastewater disposal on the Puarenga catchment of Lake Rotorua. She will evaluate the effectiveness of a Land Treatment System for nutrient removal from treated wastewater and provide information on the effects of different management strategies for treated wastewater irrigation.
Bio to follow.