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Monica Emelko
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Research
Latest papers
Effect of variable and low analytical recovery on sensitivity of Kato-Katz, Lutz and Ritchie methods for diagnosis of schistosomiasis.
Acta tropica · 2026
Particulate contaminants and treatment decision-making: maximizing the value of raw water pathogen monitoring for drinking water safety.
Journal of water and health · 2025 · senior author
Research gaps and priorities for quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA).
Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis · 2024
Latest funding
- $1,483,848
Advancing on Active Drinking Water Source Protection Technologies with Forest Management-based Approaches
NSERC · 2026 · Principal investigator
- $186,000
Drinking Water Security and Climate Change Adaptation in Canada: Developing Best Management Practices for Active Source Water Protection and Treatment Resilience in Forested Watersheds
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
- $200,000
Water Science, Technology & Policy
NSERC · 2019 · Principal investigator
4 publications.
Effect of variable and low analytical recovery on sensitivity of Kato-Katz, Lutz and Ritchie methods for diagnosis of schistosomiasis.
Firmino FT, Schmidt P, de Almeida MO, Dolabella S, Negrão-Corrêa D, Emelko M, Graeff-Teixeira C
Particulate contaminants and treatment decision-making: maximizing the value of raw water pathogen monitoring for drinking water safety.
de Brito Cruz D, Schmidt P, Kundert K, Ruecker N, Emelko M
Research gaps and priorities for quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA).
Hamilton KA, Ciol Harrison J, Mitchell J, Weir M, Verhougstraete M, Haas CN, Nejadhashemi AP, Libarkin J, Gim Aw T, Bibby K, Bivins A, Brown J, Dean K, Dunbar G, Eisenberg JNS, Emelko M, Gerrity D, Gurian PL, Hartnett E, Jahne M, Jones RM, Julian TR, Li H, Li Y, Gibson JM, Medema G, Meschke JS, Mraz A, Murphy H, Oryang D, Owusu-Ansah EDJ, Pasek E, Pradhan AK, Razzolini MTP, Ryan MO, Schoen M, Smeets PWMH, Soller J, Solo-Gabriele H, Williams C, Wilson AM, Zimmer-Faust A, Alja'fari J, Rose JB
Sediment source fingerprinting: benchmarking recent outputs, remaining challenges and emerging themes.
Collins AL, Blackwell M, Boeckx P, Chivers CA, Emelko M, Evrard O, Foster I, Gellis A, Gholami H, Granger S, Harris P, Horowitz AJ, Laceby JP, Martinez-Carreras N, Minella J, Mol L, Nosrati K, Pulley S, Silins U, da Silva YJ, Stone M, Tiecher T, Upadhayay HR, Zhang Y
Advancing on Active Drinking Water Source Protection Technologies with Forest Management-based Approaches
Principal investigators: Emelko, Monica
Keywords: Water; Forestry (silviculture, forest management)
Drinking Water Security and Climate Change Adaptation in Canada: Developing Best Management Practices for Active Source Water Protection and Treatment Resilience in Forested Watersheds
Principal investigators: Emelko, Monica
Keywords: drinking water treatment; water quality; climate change; source water protection; biofiltration; natural organic matter; fine sediment; cyanobacteria; wildfire; forest management
Water Science, Technology & Policy
Principal investigators: Emelko, Monica
Water Science, Technology & Policy
Principal investigators: Emelko, Monica
Keywords: drinking water treatment; filtration; Cryptosporidium; pathogens; source water protection; wildfire; forest management; microbial transport; water quality; quantitative microbial risk assessment
Identifying critical operational control points and strategies to minimize microbial risk during drinking water treatment
Principal investigators: Emelko, Monica
forWater: NSERC Network for Forested Drinking Water Source Protection Technologies
Principal investigators: Emelko, Monica MB
forWater: NSERC Network for Forested Drinking Water Source Protection Technologies
Principal investigators: Emelko, Monica
Adenosine Triphosphate as a Signal for Evaluating Microbial Risk from Groundwater Supplies
Principal investigators: Emelko, Monica
Drinking Water Security and Climate Change Adaptation in Canada: Evaluating Forest Management and Disturbance Impacts on Treatability
Principal investigators: Emelko, Monica
Optimizing drinking water treatment in response to variable source water quality in Calgary, Alberta: integrating source characterization and process design
Principal investigators: Emelko, Monica
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Norma Ruecker and Monica Emelko: 1 shared paper
- Heather Murphy and Monica Emelko: 1 shared paper
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Other
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