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Water-quality Forecasting in Smart Cities

By Prof Joseph Hun-wei Lee

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Date:	12 Jun 2017

Time:	12:30 pm - 2 pm (Lunch included)

Venue:	HKUST Business School Central 15/F, Hong Kong Club Building 3A Chater Road, Central, Hong Kong

Enquires:	Miss Fanny Yue 2358 5019 / science.for.lunch@ust.hk

For a city with 733km of coastline, an internationally famous harbor and 262 islands, water quality is extremely important and is a key facet of public health policy. Hydro-environmental engineering research is vital to the understanding of issues such as protection of our beaches, red tides, fisheries management and even the recently reinstated cross-harbor swimming race. Professor Lee specializes in environmental hydraulics & fluid mechanics and water-quality modeling. In this talk, he discusses the relationship between sustainable water management and “turbulent vortices” within the sea, and the development of a real-time, beach water-quality forecast system that every smart city should have. He also reports on recent research related to chlorine disinfection dosages for the second stage of the Hong Kong Harbour Area Treatment Scheme – the largest project of its kind in the world. The use of real-time forecast systems for the Kowloon East Smart City will also be discussed, along with other international examples.

Prof Joseph Hun-wei Lee
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Professor Lee is Chair Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at HKUST. He has been carrying out research into environmental hydraulics in Hong Kong since 1980, following his return from undergraduate and postgraduate studies at MIT.

He is a world-renowned expert in hydro-environment engineering, and is the Chief Editor of the Journal of Hydro-environment Research and past Vice-President of the International Association for Hydro-environment Engineering and Research(IAHR). He was the first Asia-based academic to receive the American Society of Civil Engineers Hunter Rouse Hydraulic Engineering Award (2009) and has received numerous other awards including the Croucher Senior Research Fellowship (1998) and the 2010 China State Scientific and Technological Progress Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering of the UK, and the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences, and was bestowed Honorary Membership by IAHR in 2015.

Prof Lee has served on many international advisory bodies and as an independent expert on numerous hydro-environmental projects, including the Commission of Inquiry into Excess Lead Found in Drinking Water (2015) in Hong Kong. In 2016 he was appointed member of the Science and Technology Committee of the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China.