| dr goen ho
| professor in environmental engineering
| chair of etc board

G.Ho@murdoch.edu.au
Office: Environmental Science Building ES 2.49
Phone: +61 8 9360 2167

| professional activities

  • International Water Association (IWA) » http://www.iwahq.org.uk

    Specialist Group on Small Water and Wastewater Systems - Chair
    Strategic Council - Member

  • IWA in Australia - Treasurer » http://www.awa.asn.au/iwa/
  • IWA Asia Pacific Region (ASPIRE) - Chair 2007 Regional Conference, Perth

| qualifications

BE(Sydney), MEngSc(Sydney), PhD (Qld), MIE(Aust), CPEng.

| research interests

  • technology for sustainability
  • environmental technology
  • appropriate technology
  • pollution control
  • municipal, agricultural and industrial wastes
  • anaerobic digestion
  • vermicomposting

| selected recent publications

  • editor/journal special issues/proceedings/books

    Ho, G.E. (Ed) (1999). Proceedings of the Workshop on Adopting, Applying and Operating Environmentally Sound Technologies for Domestic and Industrial Wastewater Treatment for the Wider Caribbean, Implemented 16-20 November 1998 in Montego Bay, Jamaica by Murdoch University of Western Australia with the UNEP Caribbean Regional Coordination Unit in Jamaica, United Nations Environment Programme International Environmental Technology Centre Report No. 5, Osaka/Shiga.

    Mathew, K. and Ho, G.E. (Eds.) (1999). Proceedings of International Regional Conference on Environmental technologies for Wastewater Management, United Nations Environment Programme International Environmental Technology Centre, Osaka, 297 pp.

    Tanner, C.D., Raisin, G. and Ho, G.E. (Eds.) (1999). Wetland Ecotechnology, Ecological Engineering , Vol. 12, No. 1-2 (11 refereed papers, 170 pages).

    Ho, G. E. and Skrypsi-Mantell, S. (Eds) (2000). Sludge Management for the 21st Century. Water Science & Technology, Vol. 41 Number 8 (19 refereed papers, 146 pages).

    Jennings, P., Ho, G.E., Mara, K., Mathew, K. and Anda, M. (2001). Renewable Energy. Vol. 22, Special Issue: Selected Proceedings of World Renewable Energy Conference held in February 1999, Perth, Australia, Pergamon, Oxford (55 refereed papers , 427 pages).

    Ho, G.E. (Ed.) (2002). International Source Book on Environmentally Sound Technologies for Wastewater and Stormwater Management. United Nations Environment Programme - International Environmental Technology Centre, Osaka and International Water Association Publishing, London (600 pages).

  • book chapters

    Ho, G.E., Samaraweera, M.K.S.A. and Bell, R.W. (1999). Direct Revegetation of salt-affected gold refining residue: Technology evaluation. In Wong, M.H.,

    Wong, J.W.C. and Baker, A.J.M. (Eds) Remediation and Management of Degraded Lands, Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, 123-135.

  • Matsui, S., Henze, M., Ho, G.E. and Otterpohl, R. (2001). Emerging paradigms in water supply and sanitation, in Maksimovic, C. and Tejada-Guibert, A. (Eds.) Frontiers in Urban Water Management: Deadlock or hope, IWA Publishing, London, 229-263.

  • refereed journal papers

    Mars, R., Mathew, K. and Ho, G.E. (1999). The Role of the Submergent Macrophyte Triglochin huegelii in Domestic Greywater Treatment. Ecological Engineering ,Vol. 12, 57-66.

    Tanner, C.C., Raisin, G. and Ho, G.E. (1999). Constructed and natural wetlands for pollution control. Ecological Engineering, Vol. 12, 1-3.

    Sidhu, J.S., Gibbs, R.A., Ho, G.E. and Unkovich, I. (1999). Selection of Salmonella typhimurium as an indicator for pathogen regrowth pontential in composted biosolids, Letters in Applied Microbiology, 29, 303-307.

    Pillai, J., Mathew, K., Gibbs, R.A. and Ho, G.E. (1999). H2S paper strip method - a bacteriological test for faecal coliforms in drinking water at various temperatures, Water Science & Technology, 40, 85-90.

    Mathew, K., Ho, G.E. and Anda, M. (2000). Reuse of wastewater in Aboriginal communities in Western Australia, In Water Sanitation and Health, Chorus, I. (Ed). IWA Publishing, London, 233-239.

    Wong, V. and Ho, G.E. (2000). Metal speciation and leachability of heavy metals from Enersludge ash in concrete, Water Science & Technology, Vol. 41 (8), 53-60.

    Jarmy-Swan, C. , Gibbs, R.A., Ho, G.E., Bailey, I.W. and Howgrave-Graham, A.R. (2000). A novel method for detection of viable Giardia cysts in water samples. Water Research, Vol. 34, 1948-1951.

    Ho, G.E., Dalas, S., Anda, M. and Mathew, K. (2001). Renewable energy in the context of environmentally sound technologies - training and research at the Environmental Technology Centre, Murdoch University, Renewable Energy, Vol. 22, 105 -112.

    Sidhu, J., Gibbs, R.A., Ho, G.E. and Unkovich, I. (2001). The role of indigenous microorganisms in supression of Salmonella regrowth in composted biosolids. Water Research, Vol. 35, 913-920.

    Anda, M., Mathew, K. and Ho, G.E. (2001). Evapotranspiration for domestic wastewater reuse in remote indigenous communities in Australia, Water Science & Technology, Vol. 44 (6), 1-10.

    Ho, G.E., Dallas, S., Anda, M. and Mathew, K. (2001). On-site watewater technologies in Australia, Water Science & Technology, Vol. 44 (6), 81-88.

    Nair, J., Gibbs, R.A., Mathew, K. and Ho, G.E. (2001). Suitability of the H2S method for testing untreated and chlorinated water supplies, Water Science & Technology, Vol. 44 (6), 119-126.

    Yuen, E., Anda, M., Mathew, K. and Ho, G.E. (2001). Water harvesting techniques for small communities in arid areas, Water Science & Technology, Vol. 44 (6), 189-194.

    Webb, K.M. and Ho, G.E. (2001). Characterisation of waste solutions to determine optimised P recovery, Environmental Technology, Vol. 22 (11), 1303 - 1312.

    Kuang, Y.H., Lepesteur, M., Pullammanappallil and Ho, G.E. (2002) Influence of co-substrates in long-chain fatty acid-fed anaerobic digestors. Letters in Applied Microbiology, vol. 35, 190-194

    Kurup, B, Kurup, R., Mathew, K. and Ho, G.E. (2002). Co-treatment of septage in a municipal sewage treatment pond system. Water Science & Technology, vol. 46 No 9, 315-321.

Mars, R., Taplin, R., Ho, G.E. and Mathew, K. (2003). Greywater treatment with submergent Triglochin huegeliee - a comparison between surface and subsurface systems. Ecological Engineering, vol. 20, 147 - 156.

         
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