Time: 9:00, Oct. 22, 2014

Venue: Room 506, Museum for Aquatic Organisms

Speaker: Dr. Günter Langergraber   University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU)

Title: Developments on CW technology in Austria

Introduction to the Speaker: 

Main areas of research

    Sustainable resources-oriented sanitation systems

    Constructed wetlands

    Numerical simulation

    Academic career and positions held to date (since 2008)

    2008: Regional coordinator of the IWA Specialist Group on "Use of Macrophytes in Water Pollution Control"

    2011: Coordinator of EU FP7 project CLARA (Collaborative Project, contract no. 265676, Capacity-Linked water supply and sanitation improvement for Africa’s peri-urban and Rural Areas, 03/2011-02/2014)

    2011: professorial dissertation (Habilitation)

    2012: Scientific coordinator of the EU FP7 project NaWaTech (Natural Water Systems and Treatment Technologies to cope with Water Shortages in Urbanised Areas in India; Contract # 308336; duration: 07/2012-12/2015)

    2014: IWA fellow

    Publication list Dr. Günter Langergraber

    Publications statistics (Web of Science, 21 Aug 2014):

    Results found: 60; Sum of the Times Cited: 1116; Average Citations per Item: 18.60; h-index: 21

    List of scientific publications (since 2013):

    Rizzo, A., Langergraber, G., Galváo, A., Boano, F., Revelli, R., Ridolfi, L. (2014): Modelling the response of horizontal flow constructed wetlands to unsteady organic loads with HYDRUS-CWM1. Ecol Eng 68, 209-213. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2014.03.073

    Pálfy, T.G., Langergraber, G. (2014): The verification of the Constructed Wetland Model N°1 implementation in HYDRUS using column experiment data. Ecol Eng 68, 105-115; DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2014.03.016

    Smethurst, P.J, Petrone, K., Langergraber, G., Baillie, C., Worledge, D. (2014): Nitrate dynamics in a rural headwater catchment: measurements and modeling. Hydrological Processes 28(4), 1820-1834.

    Langergraber, G., Pressl, A., Haberl, R. (2014): Experiences from the full-scale implementation of a new 2-stage vertical flow constructed wetland design. Water Sci Technol 69(2), 335-342.

    Toscano, A., Hellio, C., Marzo, A., Milani, M., Lebret, K., Cirelli, G.L., Langergraber, G. (2013): Removal efficiency of a constructed wetland combined with ultrasound and UV devices for wastewater reuse in agriculture. Environmental Technology 34(15), 2327-2336, DOI:10.1080/09593330.2013.767284

    ？im？nek, J., Jacques, D., Langergraber, G., Bradford, S.A., ？ejna, M., van Genuchten, M.Th. (2013): Numerical Modeling of Contaminant Transport Using HYDRUS and its Specialized Modules. Journal of the Indian Institute of Science 93(2) (April-June 2013), 265-284.

    Lauschmann, R., Lechner, M., Ertl, T., Langergraber, G. (2013): Experiences with pre-precipitation of phosphorus in a vertical flow constructed wetland in Austria. Water Sci Technol 67(10), 2337-2341.

    Langergraber, G. (2013): Are constructed treatment wetlands sustainable sanitation solutions? Water Sci Technol 67(10), 2133-2140, doi: 10.2166/wst.2013.122.