POWRE: Integration of Database Management System and Geographic Information Systems for Monitoring and Forecasting Environmental Mercury Distribution

该power项目设计并实现了集成数据库管理和地理信息的原型软件，目的是监测和预测环境污染物的分布。汞污染已被确定为马萨诸塞州和全国的重大环境威胁，是该项目的最初重点。具体而言，该项目开发的技术能够有效收集、快速处理和解释与各种环境污染物有关的大量复杂数据。该POWRE奖专门用于使研究人员能够与政府组织的环境生物学家和商业组织的计算机科学家合作，从而导致研究人员的重大专业进步。此外，该奖项支持研究者在相对较短的时间内对环境监测和预测的新方法进行研究，其长期目标是在环境保护领域建立学术领导地位。

This POWRE project designs and implements prototype software that integrates database management and geographic information for the purpose of monitoring and forecasting the distribution of environmental pollutants. Mercury contamination, which has been identified as a significant environmental threat both in Massachusetts and across the nation, serves as the initial focus of this project. Specifically, this project develops technology that enables effective collection and rapid processing and interpretation of vast quantities of complex data relating to diverse environmental pollutants. This POWRE award is used specifically to enable the investigator to partner with environmental biologists from governmental organizations and computer scientists from a commercial organization, leading to significant professional advancement of the investigator. In addition, the award supports the investigator's study of new methods of environmental monitoring and forecasting over a relatively short period of time with the long-term goal of establishing academic leadership in the field of environmental conservation.