Urban Watershed Microbiology, Volume 1

Sonia Tiquia-Arashiro is a Professor of Microbiology at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, with primary research interests in biotechnology for clean water, renewable energy, and healthy ecosystems. Her broader interests include the analysis and management of complex adaptive systems, as well as microbiology education and science literacy. She serves as Associate Editor for Environmental Technology and Frontiers in Microbiology, and continues to contribute to global discussions on water sustainability, environmental microbiology, and biotechnology.Gertjan Medema is a part-time Chair on Water & Health at Delft University of Technology and Principal Microbiologist at KWR Water Research Institute. He has expertise in waterborne pathogen detection and epidemiology, leading research on SARS-CoV-2 sewage surveillance and investigating a Legionella outbreak in Flint, Michigan. Since 1991, he has advised the WHO on water microbiological guidelines and contributed to responses during outbreaks like SARS and Ebola. He also advises the European Commission on water guidelines and directs KWR’s WHO Collaborating Centre on Water Quality.Hidetoshi Urakawa is a Professor of Environmental Science at Florida Gulf Coast University and a Courtesy Professor at the University of South Florida. His research covers aquatic ecology, environmental microbiology, and ecosystem processes, with a focus on the nitrogen cycle, cyanobacteria dynamics, and marine species feeding ecology. He also works in aquaculture, biotechnology, and nutrient reduction technologies. Dr. Urakawa is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Microbiology.Nelson Libardi is a faculty member at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) in Brazil, where he focuses on research and academic activities related to bioprocesses. He holds a Ph.D. in Bioprocess Engineering and Biotechnology from the Federal University of Paraná. His expertise is in environmental and industrial biotechnology, specializing in biological processes for wastewater treatment and resource recovery, with a strong emphasis on developing sustainable biotechnological solutions to improve environmental practices.Eunice Ubomba-Jaswa is a Research Manager in Water Resources Quality & Management at the Water Research Commission in Pretoria, South Africa. She specializes in water quality and pollution control, focusing on sustainable environmental remediation technologies. Her research covers wastewater treatment, waterborne pathogens, and the broader impacts of pollution on health and ecosystems. Dr. Ubomba-Jaswa is an advocate for water sustainability and has contributed to peer-reviewed journals and international conferences on environmental science and policy.Victor Ella is a Professor of Land and Water Resources Engineering at the University of the Philippines Los Baños. His research focuses on hydrologic modeling, groundwater hydrology, water quality, irrigation engineering, and soil conservation, with broader interests in contaminant transport, erosion, soil physics, water resources planning, climate change, IoT-based irrigation, and watershed-scale hydrologic modeling.

• Section 1: Metagenomics and Molecular Biology in Watershed Microbial Community Studies.- Viral Metagenomics: Assessing Potential Sources of Fecal Contamination in Watershed Systems.- Evaluation of Microbial Community Assembly and Their Interactions with Riverine and Anthropogenic DOM Under Different Urbanization Levels.- Microbial Biodiversity of Man-made Water Features.- Microbial Communities in the Sediments of Rift Lake Baikal and Their role in Diagenesis Processes.- Water Quality and Bacterial Community Characteristics of Lakes and Reservoirs with Different Land-use Types.- Interactions between the Microbiome, Virome and Cyanobacterial Blooms in Tropical Urban Catchments.- Section 2: Urban Development and the Occurrence and Persistence of Antimicrobial Resistance and Microbial Source tracking Technologies.- Quanti-Tray-based Amplicon Sequencing (QT-AMP) Application for Fecal Indicator Bacteria Identification after Hurricane Ian.- A Review of Metal and Antibiotic Resistance of Microbial Strains and Their Bioremediation Ability.- Aquatic Environmental Influence on Antimicrobial Resistance in Various Water Sources: A Hydrological Perspective.- Diverse Aminoglycoside Gene Cassettes (aadA1, aadB, and aacA4) in Class 1 Integrons in Escherichia coli Strains Isolated from Three Urban Watersheds.- Anthropogenic Environments and Antimicrobial Resistance Dynamics: A general Overview of a Complex Network.- Integrated Approaches to Tracking Antibiotic Resistance in Aquatic Ecosystems.- Section 3: Advances in Biological Monitoring and Modelling in Urban Watersheds and Community Science Monitoring.- Remote Sensing and Drivers of Harmful Cyanobacterial Algal Blooms in Freshwater Reservoirs.- Spatial and Temporal Analysis of the Water Quality in Brazilian Semi-Arid Reservoirs using AlgaeMAp.- Satellite for Probing Aquatic Microbiological Processes: A Review.- Remote Sensing for Freshwater Quality Assessment: Current Developments and Future Trends.- Recent Advances in Watershed-scale Modeling of Microbial Fate and Transport.- Citizen Science Monitoring of Freshwater Mussels (Unionidae).- Section 4: Microbial Response Indicators of Water quality, and Aquatic Ecosystems Change.- Threats of Cyanotoxins in a Changing Climate – A Review of Environmental Persistence and Health Effects.- Enzymatic Responses of Freshwater Microbial Communities to Fecal and Chemical Pollution.- Cyanobacterial Blooms and Associated Hydrogen Peroxide Dynamics.- Impacts of Environmental Regime Changes on Benthic Biofilm Community.- Metabolic Function and Carbon Utilization in Microbial Communities of Surface Waters and Sediments in Urban River and Lake Watersheds.- Biodiversity Indicators for Wetland Condition Assessment and Monitoring.- Exploring Microbial Response Indicators to Environmental Disturbances in Freshwater Ecosystems.- Assessing links between climate change indicators and algal occurrence in contemporary ecosystems.- Section 5: Regional and Country-Specific Perspectives on Urban Watershed Health Worldwide.- Nitrogen Cycling Processes and Their Microbial-driven Mechanisms in Major Watersheds of China.- Anthropogenic Changes in the Microbiological and Hydrochemical Water Quality of Southern Baikal tributaries (East Siberia).- From Waste to Water Quality: How Human Activities is Shaping Lake Victoria's Microbiome and Ecosystem Health.- Influence of Hydrometeorological Events on Lake Turbidity in Southern Chile.- Public Health at the Intersection of Climate Change and Faecal Contamination: An example from the shores of Vembanad Lake.- The Philippine Environmental Microbiological Water Quality Criteria: History and Current Directions.- Watershed Ecosystem Services of Chittagong Hill Districts, Bangladesh: Challenges and A Way Forward.- Section 6: Emerging contaminants and Bioremediation Strategies.- Ecological Factors Influencing the Biodegradation of Steroid Estrogens in Water Columns: The Interplay of Microbes and Natural Organic Matter.- Hydrogen Peroxide Production in Freshwater Environments: A Minireview.- Microbiology of Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment Processes Treating Purified Terephthalic Acid and Related Aromatic Compounds.- Biodegradation Potential of Urban Watershed Bacteria for Remediation Across an Array of Organic Contaminants.- Biosorption Dynamics in Bi-Metal solutions by  Bacterial Strains Isolated from an Urban Watershed.- Metal-Microbe Interactions in Urban Watersheds: A Study of Siderophore Production.