{"id":860,"date":"2025-08-24T12:59:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T00:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/?p=860"},"modified":"2025-08-24T12:59:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T00:59:25","slug":"congrats-to-sam-mccullough-and-peter-remoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/congrats-to-sam-mccullough-and-peter-remoto\/","title":{"rendered":"Congrats to Sam McCullough and Peter Remoto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to Sam and Peter who recently published Sam&#8217;s honours project on analysis of water in collaboration with the DCC.\u00a0 The paper, published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jwpe.2025.108474\">Journal of Water Process Engineering 77 (2025) 108474<\/a> was\u00a0 entitled &#8220;Characterization of New Zealand drinking water source variation over time and between sources using fluorescence spectroscopy&#8221; used excitation emission maps (so-called excitation-emission matrix (EEM) fluorescence spectroscopy) and multivariate analysis to understand contributions from algae and cyanobacteria in the water samples during March to June (New Zealand autumn).\u00a0 This powerful new \u00a0exploratory tool may be used to characterize components within source water which serve as indicators for water quality and support long-term environmental management.\u00a0 The work was done in collaboration with Dr Jonathan Barnsley (an Alumni of the KCG group) at 3WATERS PLANT OPERATIONS at Dunedin City Council.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2025\/08\/emission-map.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-861\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2025\/08\/emission-map.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"751\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2025\/08\/emission-map.png 751w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2025\/08\/emission-map-300x219.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 751px) 100vw, 751px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A loadings plot of the emission map revealing chlorophyll levels in the water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to Sam and Peter who recently published Sam&#8217;s honours project on analysis of water in collaboration with the DCC.\u00a0 The paper, published in the Journal of Water Process Engineering 77 (2025) 108474 was\u00a0 entitled &#8220;Characterization of New Zealand drinking water source variation over time and between sources using fluorescence spectroscopy&#8221; used excitation emission maps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33170,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}