1. World Wide WELL Prof. Martin Cormican martin.cormican@nuigalway.ie
World Wide Water Ecosystem Services for a Living and for Life
Challenge 6.2 Sustainable use and management of land and seas
ENV Exploration of the operational potential of the concepts of ecosystem services and natural capital to systematically inform sustainable land, water and urban management
Prof. Martin Cormican
Centre for Health from Environment, Ryan Institute

2. World Wide WELL – The Idea
Water - limited ecosystem service for society
Microbial biodiversity of water ecosystems connects human health and sustainability of water usage
Concept for global standard method to evaluate the total microbial biodiversity
Global standardised methods of evaluation to support studies of
impacts of use of total microbial biodiveristy
relationship between biodiversity and human health,
economic valuation of water ecosystem services
legal and social aspects of water ecosystem exploitation for commercial and community development
commercial applications for product branding and authentication
Centre for Health from Environment, Ryan Institute

3. World Wide WELL What We Have / What We Need
A big idea
Track record
Ground water monitoring networks
Network of agricultural catchments
Network of partners (participation and sampling)
Bottled water companies
Filtration expertise
Expertise : Geographical Information Systems
Wetlands ecology
Soil characterisation
Hydrogeology and surface run-off
Human rights expertise
Outreach and public engagement
Development of predictive models
Cloud based NGS data analysis
Expertise : Relvant legal expertise
Rural development
Conflict resolution
Marketing
Techniques:
Conventional water microbiology
Antimicrobial resistance
Molecular detection and characterisation of microbes
Waste water treatment experimental systems
Characterisation of aerosols
Climate change modelling
Next generation sequencing and sequence analysis
Centre for Health from Environment, Ryan Institute