SWIG Conference, Sensing in Water 2013

Building on the success of the 2011 Sensing in Water Conference, SWIG is now planning SiW 2013 to be held on the 25-26 September 2013. Please see here for more details.

The first 2-day conference, exhibition and conference dinner was held at The Nottingham belfry hotel on the 21st and 22nd September 2011.  130 delegates enjoyed two days of great networking, heard from our presenters about best practice and new water sensing technologies and met our 28 exhibitors to discuss their water sensing needs.  90 diners attended the Conference Dinner and our thanks go to ABB Ltd who kindly sponsored the pre-dinner drinks reception and to John Gray, ex DWI, for his entertaining and thought-provoking after dinner speech. 

A full report on the Sensing in Water conference 2011 is available here.

Chris Jones, then SWIG Chairman opens conference	Day 1 keynote speaker: Milo Purcell, Deputy Chief Inspector (Regulations), DWI	Day 2 keynote speaker: Derek Parsons, Principal Engineering Advisor, Ofwat	'Sensing in Water 2011' exhibition area

Feedback from Recent SWIG Workshops
A summary of the programmes and discussions from recent SWIG workshops can be found here 

SWIG Newsletters
Past SWIG newsletters can be found here 

New Chairman and Deputy Chairman for SWIG

In September 2012, Richard Luxton of the Institute of Biosensing Technology at the University of the West of England became Chairman of SWIG taking over from Chris Jones of Northumbrian Water. Leo Carswell of WRc became Deputy Chairman for SWIG.

         
SWIG Chairman: Richard Luxton

SWIG Early Career Researcher's Prize

3 short-listed candidates from SWIG's 2012 scientific poster competition gave a presentation of their work at WWEM on 7th November 2012.  The quality of all the posters entered was very high this year. 

The winner of the £500 prize was Andy Nichols (of Bradford University), for his work on 'Remote measurement of the free surface ‘fingerprint’ to monitor wastewater flows '.  His winning poster can be seen here .

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Andy commented: "This has been an incredible experience and I am honoured to receive the first prize, especially given the outstanding quality of the other entrants. There is some phenomenal work being conducted in the area of water sensing and it is great to see this work being acknowledged. Water sensing is an increasingly important and developing area, and I look forward to furthering my career in the field, particularly with this fantastic accolade behind me."

The runners up were Deirdre Cogan (of Dublin University): 'Next Generation Autonomous Chemical Sensors for Environmental Monitoring' and Daniel Dai (of WRc/Oxford University): 'LOADMON: An online non-contact wastewater pollution Load Monitor'.

Abstracts from all 3 posters can be viewed here