IWH Laboratories
IWH Laboratories conducts water and health research and provides environmental assessment services. The 8,000 sqft facilities are located in Savannah, Georgia has four laboratories, offices for researchers, field equipment, and computational resources.
Testing Capabilities
Biosafety Level 2 IWH laboratories are capable of testing for a suite of viruses, bacteria, and protozoa from drinking, recreational, stormwater, wastewater, and sediments. We conduct research on identifying the occurrence, fate, and transport of chemical and microbiological contaminants in groundwater, rivers, and marine beaches.
Analytes
- Temperature
- Dissolved oxygen
- pH
- Specific conductance
- Salinity
- Hardness
- Turbidity
- Total solids
- Total coliform
- Fecal coliform
- E. coli
- Enterococcus spp.
- Viruses
- Bacterial pathogens
- Protozoa
- Metals
- Nutrients (Nitrate, nitrite, ammonia, total nitrogen, phosphate, total phosphorus, silica)
- Chlorophyll
- Biological oxygen demand
- Chemical oxygen demand
- Total organic carbon
- Free and residual chlorine
- Microbial source tracking (Human, Ruminant, Bird, Dog, and other markers)
- eDNA
- High throughput sequencing
- Wastewater surveillance
Instruments
- Atomic Absorption
- Discrete Nutrient Analyzer
- Total Organic Carbon and Total Nitrogen Analyzer
- uv vis spectrophotometer
- Nucleic Acid Extraction Automated System
- QIAcuityDigital PCR System
- QuantStudio 6
- Biorad Thermocycler
- Illumina MiSeq Sequencer
- IDEXX sealers
- Tissue Lyzer II
- Membrane filtration and other liquid concentration systems for viruses, bacteria, and protozoa
Contact information:
Institute for Water and Health at Georgia Southern University
Savannah Research Complex, Building 4
925 Mohawk Street, Savannah 31419, GA
Directions (Upon entering the property, continue driving to the left of the building; there is a separate parking lot with IWH entrance. No parking permit is needed).
Email: iwh@georgiasouthern.edu
Last updated: 12/18/2024