Testing the potential of seaweeds and seagrasses to improve water quality

项目描述：联合国可持续发展目标（SDG）关于健康（目标3）、水质（目标6）和水下生命（目标14）的目标都与弧菌和大肠杆菌等水生病原体的研究有关。杆菌了解决定这些病原体的分布、存活和生长的因素对可持续发展目标6（清洁水和卫生设施）尤为重要，该目标旨在“确保人人享有水和卫生设施并对其进行可持续管理”。在这个博士学位，你将进行开拓性的跨学科研究，探索在沿海沃茨的水生病原体，特别是在海藻和海草的存在。您将使用现场和实验室实验来研究致病微生物与海藻和海草之间的积极或消极联系的机制，并探索基于自然的解决方案，以减轻水质差的问题。您将使用基于卫星的工具来绘制存在和不存在海藻和海草栖息地的病原体风险。

Project Description: The U.N. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets on Health (Goal 3), Water quality (Goal 6), and Life under water (Goal 14) are all relevant to the study of waterborne pathogens such as Vibrios and E. coli. Understanding the factors that determine the distribution, survival and growth of these pathogens is particularly important for SDG 6 (clean water and sanitation), which has the aim to "ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all". In this PhD, you will undertake pioneering transdisciplinary research to explore waterborne pathogens in coastal waters, specifically in relation to the presence of seaweeds and seagrasses. You will use field and lab experiments to investigate the mechanisms driving positive or negative associations between pathogenic microbes and seaweeds and seagrasses and explore nature-based solutions to mitigate the problem of poor water quality. You will use-satellite-based tools to map pathogen risk in the presence and absence of seaweed and seagrass habitats.