Dissertation – Mapping risks of faecal contamination of shallow groundwater in Dakar, Senegal

21 Nov 2021

I was incredibly lucky to join the AfriWatSan project as part of my MSc dissertation, and to carry out 2 months of fieldwork in Dakar, Senegal, collecting and analysing close to a hundred groundwater samples. This poster summarizes my research and results.

 

 

If you would like to learn more on TLF, you can read:

• My full dissertation,

• A summary paper presented at the GIS R UK conference

• Two papers we published in Science of the Total Environment and Nature’s Scientific Reports:

  • Sorensen, James PR, et al. “In-situ fluorescence spectroscopy indicates total bacterial abundance and dissolved organic carbon.” Science of the Total Environment 738 (2020): 139419., Sorensen et al., Science of The Total Environment, 2020.

  • Sorensen, James PR, et al. “Tryptophan-like and humic-like fluorophores are extracellular in groundwater: implications as real-time faecal indicators.” Scientific reports 10.1 (2020): 1-9

 

 

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