NIVA – Norsk Institutt for Vannforskning

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Principal Investigator
Dr. Kevin Thomas – kevin.thomas@niva.no

Contributors
Dr. Ailbhe Macken
Dr. Katherine Langford
Dr. Knut Erik Tollefsen
Dr. Karina Petersen

Description
The Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) is Norway’s leading multidisciplinary research institute in the field of use and protection of water bodies and water quality in fresh and marine waters. NIVA has expertise in the identification of unknown contaminants through effect-directed analysis (EDA) and non-target high resolution MS analysis, development and application of targeted analytical methods for the environmental monitoring of contaminants, prediction of contaminant occurrence and environmental distribution and characterizing ecotoxicological effects. Long term environmental monitoring frequently performed by NIVA include the development and application of passive sampling techniques focusing on the representative sampling of a wide range of contaminants in matrices such as surface and wastewater as well as sediments.