Jump to content

Draft:David McCarthy (academic)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
David McCarthy
Occupation(s)Civil engineer, urban hydrologist, and academic
AwardsStormwater Industry Association Award, Storm Water Industry Association
Young Tall Poppy Science Award, Australian Institute of Policy and Science (AIPS)
Trevithick Prize, Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE)
Academic background
EducationBSc in Physics and Mathematics, BEng (Hons) in Civil Engineering, and PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Alma materMonash University
ThesisModelling microorganisms in urban stormwater (2009)
Academic work
InstitutionsQueensland University of Technology
  • Comment: In accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, I disclose that I have been paid by my employer for my contributions to this article.HRShami (talk)

David McCarthy is an Australian civil engineer and urban hydrologist. He is Canada Excellence Research Chair in Waterborne Pathogens: Surveillance, Prediction, and Mitigation at the University of Guelph.[1] He is the founder of the Environmental and Public Health Microbiology Laboratory (EPHM Lab)[2] and the BoSL Water Monitoring and Control lab, both at Monash University. His research is focused in the field of integrated water management, urban hydrology, stormwater harvesting and reuse, and green water technologies.[3]

McCarthy is a Churchill Fellow, FASIC Fellow, and a Victoria Fellow. He is an Editor of Water Research.[4]

Education and career

[edit]

McCarthy earned a BSc in mathematics and physics in 2004, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Civil Engineering in 2005 from Monash University. He undertook postgraduate research in the Civil Engineering Department there from 2005 and completed his PhD in 2009.[5] His PhD thesis was titled "Modeling microorganisms in urban stormwater".[6]

After working at Monash University for several years, McCarthy joined University of Guelph, where he was appointed Canada Excellence Research Chair in 2023.[1] He was a Project Leader at the CRC for Water Sensitive Cities, where he researched passive treatment technologies to remove micropollutants and pathogens from various water sources.[7]

Research

[edit]

McCarthy has authored articles in journals and book chapters. He is most known for his research in the fields of urban hydrology, stormwater management, sensor networks, and wastewater treatment. He developed a model for predicting microorganism concentrations in urban stormwater.[8][9] His research is focused on the treatment of storm and wastewaters by investigating the pollutants' movement within urban water systems and removing micropollutants and pathogens for the protection of downstream ecosystems and human health.[10]

Integrated water management

[edit]

During his PhD work, McCarthy carried out the collection and uncertainty analysis of urban stormwater microorganism datasets and started the development of a model that predicts microbes in urban stormwater. Later, his urban stormwater microorganism dataset in Australia also contributed to the formulation of Australian Guidelines for Water Recycling: Stormwater Harvesting and Reuse.[6] He helped establish a system that can treat urban stormwater runoff to an acceptable standard for reuse without pre- or post-treatment, the enviss system.[11]

While investigating urban drainage quality and quantity modeling, McCarthy assessed and characterized the techniques that are used in the uncertainty assessment of the parameters of water models.[12] Later, he presented a review of integrated urban water modeling, formulated a new typology for the classification of integrated models, and also addressed the fundamental model features.[13] He also put forth the process-based MPiRe model (Micro-Pollutants In RaingardEns - quality model) with a team of researchers in order to remove a variety of micro-pollutants from stormwater using biofilters.[14]

Wastewater surveillance

[edit]

Focusing the research on wastewater-based surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic, McCarthy developed a sampler unit for the detection of SARS-CoV-2, and other wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE).[15][16] He collaborated with UoG researchers Larry Goodridge, Ed McBean, Heather Murphy and March Habash, who used his device to monitor wastewater at UoG residences and at the Guelph Wastewater Facility (GWF).[17] He has also carried out environmental monitoring of microbiological hazards in Fiji and Indonesia.[18]

Low-cost sensors

[edit]

With a team of researchers, he proposed a low-power sensor for discharge detection that can be deployed in the urban drainage network for high-resolution data monitoring against high-end loggers and sensors.[19] They developed new sensors, loggers, and AI anomaly detection algorithms and applied them to a smart sensor array that could detect illicit connections that introduced pathogens into Australian drinking water supplies and recreational waterways. Using these sensor networks, his research team detected incursions of sewage into Australian waterways.[20]

Biofiltration and urban hydrology

[edit]

McCarthy has conducted research on sustainable stormwater management and biofiltration. He has conducted research on tackling pollution, and treating stormwater to ensure its safety for both reuse, and discharge in the downstream ecosystem and water bodies. According to his research, biofiltration is a highly efficient method for removing pollutants from urban stormwater, including pathogens, heavy metals, nitrogen, and phosphorus. It was highlighted that the choice of design has a significant impact on the biofilters' removal potential.[21] His research has illustrated that biofilters tend to be resilient despite operation condition variations, and indicate a satisfactory removal of metals for stormwater harvesting.[22] He has also focused much of his research on examining the retention and survival of E. coli in stormwater biofilters.[23] Exploring the inconsistent removal of faecal microorganisms with biofilters, his research studies looked into the antimicrobial potential of a variety of Australian native plant species. It concluded that myrtaceous plants, such as Melaleuca fulgens, and Melaleuca ericifolia are effective at inactivating microbial pathogens and should be used in stormwater treatment facilities, particularly in biofilters.[24][25] In addition to that, he has contributed to the development of photocatalytic heterojunctions by achieving optimal activity of TiO2 coupled with WO3 in order to use their superior photoactivity for water disinfection.[26] He conducted research on the use of biofilters as an effective pathogen remover for the reuse of greywater,[27] and determined a mixture of coir and perlite media as the best choice to be used in green walls for greywater reuse systems.[28]

Microbial source tracking

[edit]

McCarthy's team has focused on the development of new tools to allow for more sensitive and specific source tracking techniques using high throughput sequencing approaches. His work proposed the use of 16s amplicon sequencing datasets for microbial source tracking,[29] and attempted to validate these results using a modelling technique.[30]

Awards and honors

[edit]

Selected articles

[edit]
  • Schang, C.; Crosbie, N. D.; Nolan, M.; Poon, R.; Wang, M.; Jex, A.; McCarthy, D. T. (2021). "Passive sampling of SARS-CoV-2 for wastewater surveillance" (PDF). Environmental Science & Technology. 55 (15): 10432–10441. Bibcode:2021EnST...5510432S. doi:10.1021/acs.est.1c01530. PMID 34264643.
  • Lappan, R.; Henry, R.; Chown, S. L.; Luby, S. P.; Higginson, E. E.; Bata, L.; McCarthy, D. (2021). "Monitoring of diverse enteric pathogens across environmental and host reservoirs with TaqMan array cards and standard qPCR: a methodological comparison study". The Lancet Planetary Health. 5 (5): e297 – e308. doi:10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00051-6. PMC 8116308. PMID 33964239.
  • Li, J.; Verhagen, R.; Ahmed, W.; Metcalfe, S.; Thai, P. K.; Kaserzon, S. L.; McCarthy, D. (2022). "In situ calibration of passive samplers for viruses in wastewater". ACS ES&T Water. doi:10.1021/acsestwater.2c00063 (inactive 5 May 2025).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of May 2025 (link)
  • Catsamas, S.; Shi, B.; Deletic, B.; Wang, M.; McCarthy, D. T. (2022). "A Low-Cost, Low-Power Water Velocity Sensor Utilizing Acoustic Doppler Measurement". Sensors. 22 (19): 7451. Bibcode:2022Senso..22.7451C. doi:10.3390/s22197451. PMC 9572237. PMID 36236550.
  • Murni, I. K.; Oktaria, V.; Handley, A.; McCarthy, D. T.; Donato, C. M.; Nuryastuti, T.; Bines, J. E. (2022). "The feasibility of SARS-CoV-2 surveillance using wastewater and environmental sampling in Indonesia". PLOS ONE. 17 (10): e0274793. Bibcode:2022PLoSO..1774793M. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0274793. PMC 9565423. PMID 36240187.
  • Lim, T. J.; Sargent, R.; Henry, R.; Fletcher, T. D.; Coleman, R. A.; McCarthy, D. T.; Lintern, A. (2022). "Riparian buffers: Disrupting the transport of E. coli from rural catchments to streams". Water Research. 222: 118897. Bibcode:2022WatRe.22218897L. doi:10.1016/j.watres.2022.118897. PMID 35932702.
  • Fowdar, H. S.; Neo, T. H.; Ong, S. L.; Hu, J.; McCarthy, D. T. (2022). "Performance analysis of a stormwater green infrastructure model for flow and water quality predictions". Journal of Environmental Management. 316: 115259. Bibcode:2022JEnvM.31615259F. doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115259. PMID 35658251.
  • Galbraith, P.; Henry, R.; McCarthy, D. T. (2022). "Plants against pathogens: Effect of significant antimicrobial-producing plants on faecal microbe inactivation throughout the soil profile of stormwater biofilters". Water Research. 221: 118707. Bibcode:2022WatRe.22118707G. doi:10.1016/j.watres.2022.118707. PMID 35717708.
  • Shi, B.; Catsamas, S.; Deletic, B.; Wang, M.; Bach, P. M.; Lintern, A.; McCarthy, D. T. (2022). "Illicit discharge detection in stormwater drains using an Arduino-based low-cost sensor network". Water Science and Technology. 85 (5): 1372–1383. doi:10.2166/wst.2022.037. PMID 35290218.


References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b "Dr. David McCarthy Joins U of G as Canada Excellence Research Chair". U of G News. 17 November 2023.
  2. ^ "VICE - CHANCELLOR'S EDUCATION AND RESEARCH AWARDS" (PDF).
  3. ^ "David McCarthy". Monash Lens.
  4. ^ "Professor David T. McCarthy - Editorial Board - Water Research - Journal - Elsevier". www.journals.elsevier.com.
  5. ^ "David McCarthy, School of Environmental Sciences". ses.uoguelph.ca.
  6. ^ a b "Australian Guidelines for Water Recycling Stormwater: Harvesting and Reuse" (PDF).
  7. ^ "Researchers". 21 March 2016.
  8. ^ McCarthy, D.T.; Deletic, A.; Mitchell, V.G.; Diaper, C. (October 2011). "Development and testing of a model for Micro-Organism Prediction in Urban Stormwater (MOPUS)". Journal of Hydrology. 409 (1–2): 236–247. Bibcode:2011JHyd..409..236M. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.08.023.
  9. ^ Diaper, C.; Mitchell, V. G.; Deletic, A.; McCarthy, D. T. (2010). "Sensitivity analysis of an urban stormwater microorganism model". Water Science and Technology. 62 (6): 1393–1400. Bibcode:2010WSTec..62.1393M. doi:10.2166/wst.2010.349. PMID 20861555.
  10. ^ "David T. McCarthy". scholar.google.com.au.
  11. ^ "Performance of enviss (TM) stormwater filters: results of a laboratory trial | Request PDF".
  12. ^ Dotto, Cintia B.S.; Mannina, Giorgio; Kleidorfer, Manfred; Vezzaro, Luca; Henrichs, Malte; McCarthy, David T.; Freni, Gabriele; Rauch, Wolfgang; Deletic, Ana (May 2012). "Comparison of different uncertainty techniques in urban stormwater quantity and quality modelling". Water Research. 46 (8): 2545–2558. Bibcode:2012WatRe..46.2545D. doi:10.1016/j.watres.2012.02.009. PMID 22402270.
  13. ^ Bach, Peter M.; Rauch, Wolfgang; Mikkelsen, Peter S.; McCarthy, David T.; Deletic, Ana (April 2014). "A critical review of integrated urban water modelling – Urban drainage and beyond". Environmental Modelling & Software. 54: 88–107. Bibcode:2014EnvMS..54...88B. doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2013.12.018.
  14. ^ Randelovic, Anja; Zhang, Kefeng; Jacimovic, Nenad; McCarthy, David; Deletic, Ana (February 2016). "Stormwater biofilter treatment model (MPiRe) for selected micro-pollutants". Water Research. 89: 180–191. Bibcode:2016WatRe..89..180R. doi:10.1016/j.watres.2015.11.046. PMID 26650452.
  15. ^ Schang, Christelle; Crosbie, Nicolas D.; Nolan, Monica; Poon, Rachael; Wang, Miao; Jex, Aaron; John, Nijoy; Baker, Louise; Scales, Peter; Schmidt, Jonathan; Thorley, Bruce R.; Hill, Kelly; Zamyadi, Arash; Tseng, Chi-Wen; Henry, Rebekah; Kolotelo, Peter; Langeveld, Jeroen; Schilperoort, Remy; Shi, Baiqian; Einsiedel, Steve; Thomas, Michael; Black, James; Wilson, Simon; McCarthy, David T. (August 3, 2021). "Passive Sampling of SARS-CoV-2 for Wastewater Surveillance". Environmental Science & Technology. 55 (15): 10432–10441. Bibcode:2021EnST...5510432S. doi:10.1021/acs.est.1c01530. PMC 8291133. PMID 34264643.
  16. ^ Kreier, Freda (10 May 2021). "The myriad ways sewage surveillance is helping fight COVID around the world". Nature. doi:10.1038/d41586-021-01234-1. PMID 33972790.
  17. ^ Habtewold, Jemaneh; McCarthy, David; McBean, Edward; Law, Ilya; Goodridge, Larry; Habash, Marc; Murphy, Heather M. (March 25, 2022). "Passive sampling, a practical method for wastewater-based surveillance of SARS-CoV-2". Environmental Research. 204 (Pt B): 112058. Bibcode:2022ER....20412058H. doi:10.1016/j.envres.2021.112058. PMC 8433097. PMID 34516976.
  18. ^ Leder, Karin; et al. (January 8, 2021). "Study design, rationale and methods of the Revitalising Informal Settlements and their Environments (RISE) study: a cluster randomised controlled trial to evaluate environmental and human health impacts of a water-sensitive intervention in informal settlements in Indonesia and Fiji". BMJ Open. 11 (1): e042850. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2020-042850. PMC 7798802. PMID 33419917.
  19. ^ Shi, Baiqian; Catsamas, Stephen; Kolotelo, Peter; Wang, Miao; Lintern, Anna; Jovanovic, Dusan; Bach, Peter M.; Deletic, Ana; McCarthy, David T. (January 25, 2021). "A Low-Cost Water Depth and Electrical Conductivity Sensor for Detecting Inputs into Urban Stormwater Networks". Sensors. 21 (9): 3056. Bibcode:2021Senso..21.3056S. doi:10.3390/s21093056. PMC 8123848. PMID 33925612.
  20. ^ Shi, B.; Catsamas, S.; Deletic, B.; Wang, M.; Bach, P. M.; Lintern, A.; Deletic, A.; McCarthy, D. T. (March 25, 2022). "Illicit discharge detection in stormwater drains using an Arduino-based low-cost sensor network". Water Science and Technology. 85 (5): 1372–1383. Bibcode:2022WSTec..85.1372S. doi:10.2166/wst.2022.034. hdl:20.500.11850/531300. PMID 35290218. S2CID 246526814.
  21. ^ Bratieres, Katia; Fletcher, Timothy David; Deletic, Ana; Alcazar, Lucie; Coustumer, Sebastien Mael Le; McCarthy, David Thomas (January 25, 2008). "Removal of nutrients, heavy metals and pathogens by stormwater biofilters". Iwa Publishing. pp. 1–10 – via research.monash.edu.
  22. ^ Feng, Wenjun; Hatt, Belinda E.; McCarthy, David T.; Fletcher, Tim D.; Deletic, Ana (May 2012). "Biofilters for Stormwater Harvesting: Understanding the Treatment Performance of Key Metals That Pose a Risk for Water Use". Environmental Science & Technology. 46 (9): 5100–5108. Bibcode:2012EnST...46.5100F. doi:10.1021/es203396f. PMID 22497642.
  23. ^ Chandrasena, Gayani Inoka; Deletic, Ana; Hathaway, Jon Michael; Lintern, Anna; Henry, Rebekah; McCarthy, David T. (3 July 2019). "Enhancing Escherichia coli removal in stormwater biofilters with a submerged zone: balancing the impact of vegetation, filter media and extended dry weather periods". Urban Water Journal. 16 (6): 460–468. Bibcode:2019UrbWJ..16..460C. doi:10.1080/1573062X.2019.1611883.
  24. ^ Galbraith, P.; Henry, R.; McCarthy, D. T. (June 6, 2019). "Rise of the killer plants: investigating the antimicrobial activity of Australian plants to enhance biofilter-mediated pathogen removal". Journal of Biological Engineering. 13 (1): 52. doi:10.1186/s13036-019-0175-2. PMC 6555726. PMID 31182974.
  25. ^ Shirdashtzadeh, M.; Chandrasena, G.I.; Henry, R.; McCarthy, D.T. (October 2017). "Plants that can kill; improving E. coli removal in stormwater treatment systems using Australian plants with antibacterial activity". Ecological Engineering. 107: 120–125. Bibcode:2017EcEng.107..120S. doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2017.07.009.
  26. ^ Zeng, Xiangkang; Wang, Zhouyou; Wang, Gen; Gengenbach, Thomas R.; McCarthy, David T.; Deletic, Ana; Yu, Jiaguo; Zhang, Xiwang (December 2017). "Highly dispersed TiO2 nanocrystals and WO3 nanorods on reduced graphene oxide: Z-scheme photocatalysis system for accelerated photocatalytic water disinfection". Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 218: 163–173. Bibcode:2017AppCB.218..163Z. doi:10.1016/j.apcatb.2017.06.055.
  27. ^ Jung, J.; Fowdar, H.; Henry, R.; Deletic, A.; McCarthy, D.T. (November 2019). "Biofilters as effective pathogen barriers for greywater reuse". Ecological Engineering. 138: 79–87. Bibcode:2019EcEng.138...79J. doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2019.07.020.
  28. ^ Prodanovic, Veljko; Hatt, Belinda; McCarthy, David; Zhang, Kefeng; Deletic, Ana (May 2017). "Green walls for greywater reuse: Understanding the role of media on pollutant removal". Ecological Engineering. 102: 625–635. Bibcode:2017EcEng.102..625P. doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2017.02.045.
  29. ^ Henry, Rebekah; Schang, Christelle; Coutts, Scott; Kolotelo, Peter; Prosser, Toby; Crosbie, Nick; Grant, Trish; Cottam, Darren; O'Brien, Peter; Deletic, Ana; McCarthy, David (April 2016). "Into the deep: Evaluation of SourceTracker for assessment of faecal contamination of coastal waters". Water Research. 93: 242–253. Bibcode:2016WatRe..93..242H. doi:10.1016/j.watres.2016.02.029. PMID 26921850.
  30. ^ McCarthy, D.T.; Jovanovic, D.; Lintern, A.; Teakle, I.; Barnes, M.; Deletic, A.; Coleman, R.; Rooney, G.; Prosser, T.; Coutts, S.; Hipsey, M.R.; Bruce, L.C.; Henry, R. (February 2017). "Source tracking using microbial community fingerprints: Method comparison with hydrodynamic modelling". Water Research. 109: 253–265. Bibcode:2017WatRe.109..253M. doi:10.1016/j.watres.2016.11.043. PMID 27912100.
  31. ^ "2014 Victorian Award Winners".
  32. ^ "External Staff Award". Engineering.
  33. ^ "Richard Trevithick Fund Prize". ICE Virtual Library.


This page will be placed in the following categories if it is moved to the article namespace.
Categories:

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:David_McCarthy_(academic)&oldid=1288985906"