AEESP Symposium: On Frontiers in Assessment Methods for the Environment

0333427 Brezonik这项建议要求提供资金，以组织和举办一个名为环境评估方法前沿(FAME)的全国研讨会，该研讨会由环境工程和科学教授协会赞助。FAME将专注于在环境测量系统和评估方法方面取得的突破性进展，这些系统和评估方法有望彻底改变科学家和工程师研究和解决各种规模的复杂环境问题的方式。这次研讨会主要是由明尼苏达大学环境工程专业的教师为AEESP组织的，将于2003年8月10日至13日在明尼阿波利斯举行。该研讨会是为开发NSF环境工程领域的一项倡议--CLEAR而举办的一系列研讨会的产物。CLEANER代表协作式大型环境研究工程分析网络。它被设想为环境外地设施的联网基础设施，以便能够拟订和发展恢复和保护环境资源的工程和政策备选方案。到目前为止，已经举办了三次关于清洁剂的讲习班：2001年12月在斯坦福大学；2002年10月在明尼苏达大学；作为这些研讨会的结果，AEESP的领导人意识到有必要举行一次广泛的研讨会，将在测量和评估技术、建模、数据处理和网络工具方面取得突破性进展的工程师和科学家，以及来自学术机构的工程师和科学家聚集在一起，他们可以使用这些技术来革新实地研究，并在环境工程科学中发展更有效的研究。因此，研讨会将包括负责测量/评估方法技术进步的学科的个人和环境工程/科学界这项技术的潜在用户。这些进展包括化学和生物污染物传感器、现场仪器、分析复杂系统中物理、化学和生物过程的新建模技术，以及利用新技术产生的大型数据库的计算机系统的进展。研讨会参与者将有机会了解NSF关于仪器和网络环境研究设施的拟议倡议，例如CLEANER，这是这些进步的自然产物。来自美国各地学术机构的工程师和科学家，以及进行涉及实地调查的环境研究的联邦和州机构的代表，以及来自私营部门的工程师将参加研讨会。指导委员会将编写一份总结研讨会成果的报告，并将于2003年12月提交给美国国家科学基金会的环境工程计划。智力价值：研讨会将汇聚处于开发测量和分析系统前沿的不同学科的领导人，以及来自环境工程和科学界的研究人员，他们将以令人兴奋的新方式应用这些进展，以改进对大规模环境问题及其解决方案的研究。广泛的影响：研讨会将是高度跨学科的，并将促进跨这些学科的尖端技术的思想和信息交流，这将促进旨在解决一些社会最紧迫和复杂的环境问题的研究计划的发展。我们以前的清洁工研讨会在让妇女和代表不足的少数群体成员参与方面非常有效，我们将强调这一参与研讨会的名声。

0333427 Brezonik This proposal requests funds to organize and conduct a national symposium called Frontiers in Assessment Methods for the Environment (FAME), which is being sponsored by the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP). FAME will focus on the groundbreaking advances being made in environmental measurement systems and assessment methods, which promise to revolutionize the ways scientists and engineers study and solve complicated environmental problems over a range of scales. The symposium is being organized for the AEESP primarily by faculty in the environmental engineering program from the University of Minnesota and will be held in Minneapolis, August 10-13, 2003.The symposium is an outgrowth of a series of workshops held to develop CLEANER, an initiative in the environmental engineering area of the NSF. CLEANER stands for Collaborative Large-scale Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research. It is envisioned as a networked infrastructure of environmental field facilities to enable formulation and development of engineering and policy options for the restoration and protection of environmental resources. Thus far, three workshops have been held on CLEANER: at Stanford University in December, 2001; the University of Minnesota in October, 2002; and Duke University in February, 2003.In a result of these workshops, leaders of AEESP became aware of the need for a broad symposium to bring together engineers and scientists who are making groundbreaking advances in measurement and assessment technologies, modeling, data processing and networking tools and the engineers and scientists from academic institutions who can use these techniques to revolutionize field research and develop more effective research in environmental engineering science.The symposium thus will include individuals from the disciplines responsible for technological advances in measurement/assessment methods and potential users of this technology in the environmental engineering/science community. These advances include sensors for chemical and biological contaminants, in situ instruments, new modeling techniques to analyze physical, chemical, and biological processes in complex systems, and advances in computer systems totake advantage of the large databases generated by new technologies. Symposium participants will have an opportunity to learn about proposed NSF initiatives for instrumented and networked environmental research facilities, such as CLEANER, that are a natural outgrowth of these advances.The symposium will be attended by engineers and scientists from academic institutions across the United States, as well as representatives of federal and state agencies that conduct environmental research involving field investigations, and engineers from the private sector. A report summarizing results of the symposium will be prepared by the steering committee and submitted to the Environmental Engineering Program in NSF by December, 2003.Intellectual Merit: The symposium will bring together leaders from a variety of disciplines at the forefront of developing measurement and analysis systems and researchers from the environmental engineering and sciences communities who will be applying these advances in exciting new ways to improve research into large-scale environmental problems and their solutions.Broader Impacts: The symposium will be highly interdisciplinary and will promote an exchange of ideas and information on cutting-edge technology across these disciplines that will promote the development of research programs aimed at solving some of society most pressing and complicated environmental problems. Our previous CLEANER workshop was highly effective in involving women and members of under-represented minorities, and we will emphasize this involvement in the symposium FAME.