Dissertation Ellinor Frank

On Friday, 24 October at 10:15, Ellinor Frank, an industrial PhD student at Sweden Water Research and Lund University, will publicly defend her thesis titled “Evaluation of the bacterial content in sediments in connection to bathing water quality.”

Her research has examined:

• Whether bacterial levels in sediment from historical overflows, or other sources such as “standard” treated wastewater discharges, affect bathing water quality
• How microbial communities in sediment and bathing water change over several years
• Whether specific sources of faecal bacteria in sediment and bathing water can be identified

Her principal supervisor has been Magnus Larson from Lund University. Co-supervisors: Therese Jephson (VA SYD), Kenneth M Persson (Lund University), and Carolina Suarez (Sweden Water Research).