H032-0012
UrbaN Bio-geochemistry: Integrating the Air, water, Soil and microbiological sciEnce needed to unDerpin pollution management [UNBIASED]

Tuesday, 8 December 2020
Poster
Laura Scheiber, IDAEA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, Enric Vazquez-Sune, IDAEA CSIC, Geosciences, Barcelona, Spain, Maria Izquierdo, CSIC, Environmental Geochemistry and Atmospheric Research (EGAR), Barcelona, Spain, Silvia Bofill Mas, University of Barcelona, DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS, MICROBIOLOGY AND STATISTICS, Barcelona, Spain, Marta Rusiñol Arantegui, University of Barcelona, DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS, MICROBIOLOGY AND STATISTICS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA (UB), Spain, Barcelona, Spain and Ignacio Bulboa Foronda, Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA), Barcelona, Spain
Abstract:
Increasing urban pressures demand policies to improve the lives of urban dwellers and ensure both economic, social and environmental protection. UNBIASED propose an integrated, multidisciplinary approach to enhance our understanding on the sources, pathways, sinks and behaviour of inorganic, organic substances and viral pathogens across a multi-compartment ecosystem in an urban environament. This project has 7 inter-related components (CP):

The 1st and 2nd CP will give us an insight into the concentrations, distribution and linkages of an extensive array of inorganic/organic substances across key environmental compartments in terms of exposure of urban receptors.

A 3rd CP will give a new insight into exposure of receptors to fine surface particulates. We seek to generate better dose/risk estimates by assessing the physiological solubility of pollutants at the body gateway through in-vitro experiments mimicking physiological processes.

The 4th CP addresses the presence and degree of circulation of viral pathogens across the air, soil and water reservoris.

The 5th CP explores an extensive array of organic, inorganic elemental / isotopic and microbiological tracers to increase our power to fine-tune discriminate biogeochemically distinct components, which is currently challenging in urban environments.

In the 6th CP, quantitative, mechanistically robust modelling tools will be developed. This will optimise urban water management in the urban context; and will improve our ability to develop effective strategies to mitigate the potential effects that future climate change.

In the 7th PC, you will improve our understanding of the underlying mechanisms and controls over pollutant-soil-water-air interactions in an urban environment.

The main project output is multi-disciplinary evidence underpinning solid science to assist policy makers and decisions across the Urban Resources

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