AEESP Symposium: On Frontiers in Assessment Methods for the Environment

AEESP 研讨会：环境评估方法前沿

• 批准号: 0333427
• 负责人: Deborah Swackhamer
• 金额: $ 7.07万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-06-15 至 2004-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0333427&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: AEESP; Symposium; Frontiers; Assessment; Methods

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.

0333427 Brezonik该提案要求提供资金，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（AEESP）赞助。FAME将重点关注环境测量系统和评估方法的突破性进展，这些进展有望彻底改变科学家和工程师在一系列尺度上研究和解决复杂环境问题的方式。这次研讨会主要由明尼苏达大学环境工程系的教员为AEESP组织，将于2003年8月10日至13日在明尼阿波利斯举行。这次研讨会是一系列研讨会的产物，这些研讨会是为了发展清洁剂而举行的，清洁剂是NSF环境工程领域的一项倡议。CLEANER是Collaborative Large-scale Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research的缩写。它被设想为一个环境实地设施的网络基础设施，以便能够制定和发展恢复和保护环境资源的工程和政策选择。到目前为止，已经举办了三次关于清洁的讲习班：2001年12月在斯坦福大学; 2002年10月在明尼苏达大学;和杜克大学在2003年2月。在这些研讨会的结果，AEESP的领导人意识到需要一个广泛的研讨会，汇集工程师和科学家谁是在测量和评估技术，建模，数据处理和网络工具，以及来自学术机构的工程师和科学家，他们可以使用这些技术来彻底改变现场研究，并在环境工程科学中开展更有效的研究。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/科学界这种技术的潜在用户。这些进步包括化学和生物污染物的传感器，原位仪器，分析复杂系统中物理，化学和生物过程的新建模技术，以及计算机系统的进步，以利用新技术产生的大型数据库。研讨会的与会者将有机会了解美国国家科学基金会提出的关于仪器化和网络化环境研究设施的倡议，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，以及从事包括实地调查在内的环境研究的联邦和州机构的代表将参加研讨会。以及来自私营部门的工程师。指导委员会将编写一份总结研讨会结果的报告，并于2003年12月前提交给美国国家科学基金会的环境工程项目。研讨会将汇集来自各种学科的领导者在开发测量和分析系统的前沿和研究人员从环境工程和科学界谁将应用这些进步在令人兴奋的新方式更广泛的影响：研讨会将是高度跨学科的，并将促进这些学科的尖端技术的思想和信息的交流，这将促进旨在解决一些社会最紧迫和最复杂的环境问题的研究计划的发展。我们之前的清洁工作坊在让妇女和代表性不足的少数民族成员参与进来方面非常有效，我们将在FAME研讨会上强调这种参与。