Chief Investigator:

Prof. WU Shiu Sun Rudolf

Project Year:

1/1/2016 - 12/1/2019

Description:

Earlier, we have developed a chemical device known as the “Artificial Mussel” (AM) which can provide a time-integrated estimate of metal concentrations in the environment. This has attracted international collaboration with Scotland, Iceland, Portugal, South Africa, Australia and South Korea. The overall results demonstrated that AM can provide a reliable time-integrated estimate of metal concentration over large biogeographic areas with very different hydrographic conditions, and overcome the shortcomings of monitoring metals in water, sediment and the use of biomonitors. Since 2016, we have further extended our collaboration to Bangladesh, the Philippines, Russia, Thailand, Norway, Mexico and Mainland China.