Red-ALERT CDT’s vision is to train and empower a new generation of leaders to transform how we manage aquatic environmental health via Real-Time Digital Water-Based Systems. Underpinned by emerging concepts of Digital Water Fingerprinting and (Waste)water-Based Epidemiology, the CDT convenes for the first time private, government, regulatory and public sector organisations with world leading researchers in the fields of genetics, ecotoxicology, sensor technology, Internet of Things (IoT), autonomous real-time data collection, mathematical modelling, data analytics, informatics and social science to co-design training to directly address key scientific knowledge gaps and areas of national / global skills shortages.

The Red-ALERT CDT is a bath-led partnership consisting of Bangor University; University of Bath; Cardiff University; University of Exeter; and the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, and our students are based across all four of our higher education institutions.