Graduate Traineeships in Quantitative Contaminant Hydrogeology

与地下环境污染有关的基本和应用问题正受到地方、国家和国际各级的关注。地下水污染显然是我们社会的一个紧迫的技术问题。弗吉尼亚大学对定量污染物水文地质学的研究采取了跨学科的方法，使其在该领域处于全国突出的独特地位。有了对研究生的额外支持，正在进行的研究和教学计划应该允许他们制定一个连贯的计划，为理解地下水污染的基本技术问题提供基础，并培养能够从不同角度解决这一复杂跨学科问题的合格专业人员。跨部门的合作正在产生新的研究资金、额外的教职员工和新的空间；弗吉尼亚大学已经准备好扩大其在培训急需的技术专业人员方面的作用。这一包括水文地质学、地球化学、微生物生态学、化学工程和土木工程的跨学科学术项目将发展成为全国性的资源，通过培养优秀的毕业生来填补其他大学、国家研究机构、联邦机构和工业的职位，并对他们进行培训，为解决我国在污染水文地质学方面的问题做出贡献。

Fundamental and applied problems associated with the contamination of the subsurface environment are receiving attention at local, national, and international levels. Groundwater contamination is clearly an urgent technical issue in our society. The University of Virginia has taken an interdisciplinary approach to the study of quantitative contaminant hydrogeology that places it in a unique position of national prominence in the field. With additional support for graduate students, the ongoing research and teaching program should allow them to craft a cohesive program that will provide the basis for understanding the fundamental technical issues of groundwater contamination and produce competent professionals who can address the details of this complex interdisciplinary problem from a variety of perspectives. Collaboration across departments is generating new research funds, additional faculty members, and new space; the University of Virginia is primed to expand its role in the training of critically needed technical professionals. This interdisciplinary academic program, encompassing hydrogeology, geochemistry, microbial ecology, chemical engineering, and civil engineering, shall evolve into a national resource by producing outstanding graduates to fill positions at other universities, national research facilities, federal agencies, and industry, and to train them to contribute to solving our Nation's problems in contaminant hydrogeology.