Presidential Young Investigator Award: City Structure and Regional Change in Europe

该奖项为亚历山大墨菲博士提供支持， 国家科学基金会的总统青年研究员计划。 该计划的目的是为一些研究提供支持。 全国最杰出、最有前途的年轻科学家， 工程学院的成员。 该奖项旨在提高 美国学术机构应对需求的能力 高素质的科学家和工程师为学术和工业 研究和教学。 这个奖项将允许墨菲博士继续他的研究， 政治地理学对不断演变的区域结构和意识形态的影响 欧洲和地球仪的其他部分。 他计划支付特别 关注欧洲范围内重要地区的发展 社区，从布鲁塞尔开始，一个城市，发挥了中央 在西欧一体化中的作用，这可能会经历 在接下来的几十年里发生巨大的变化。 除了研究 动态地， 重新定义的区域，研究人员还将检查 权力集中在中央机构内， 他将探讨这种影响， 集中注意人类对自然环境的使用和滥用。 太平洋区域结构和水分配研究 美国西北部的用水分析将紧随其后， 污染的沿着斯海尔德河北部中欧，从而 加强对区域环境影响的认识 重组

This award provides support for Dr. Alexander Murphy through the National Science Foundation's Presidential Young Investigator Program. The objective of this program is to provide research support for some of the nation's most outstanding and promising young science and engineering faculty members. The awards are intended to improve the capability of U.S. academic institutions to respond to the demand for highly qualified scientists and engineers for academic and industrial research and teaching. This award will allow Dr. Murphy to continue his research in political geography on evolving regional structures and ideologies in the Europe and other parts of the globe. He plans to pay special attention to development of critical locales within the European Community, starting with Brussels, a city that has played a central role in the integration of Western Europe and that likely will undergo dramatic transformation in the next decades. In addition to studying the role and relationships of specific places within dynamically redefined regions, the investigator also will examine the concentration of power within central institutions that exert great influence within regions, and he will explore the implications of such concentrations on human use and misuse of the natural environment. Studies of regional structures and water allocation in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. will be followed by analyses of water use and pollution in along the Scheldt River of north central Europe, thereby enhancing understandings of the environmental impacts of regional restructuring.