CLEANER: Collaborative Research: Concept Development Toward a Collaborative Large-Scale Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research with Focus on the Chesapeake Bay

CLEANER：协作研究：以切萨皮克湾为重点的环境研究协作大型工程分析网络的概念开发

• 批准号: 0414372
• 负责人: William Ball
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Johns Hopkins University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-08-01 至 2006-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0414372&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CLEANER; Collaborative; Research; Concept; Development

0414372 Ball It is proposed to create a cyberinfrastructured Environmental Field Facility (EFF), focusing on the Phoenix metropolis and its regional environs as a potential node of the Engineering Analysis Network of the NSF's CLEANER initiative. This EFF, called MEASURES (Multi-scale Environmental Analysis in Urban and Regional Ecosystems), will emphasize scientific, engineering and socio-economic issues related to the flow of air and water as well as transport and dispersion of flow-borne contaminants over a range of spatio-temporal scales. Intense observations that employ cutting-edge sensor and communications technologies, detailed theoretical analyses and laboratory experiments, high-performance computational simulations, sophisticated predictive modeling and sensor-model fusion are the key approaches to be employed. The data and new findings will be disseminated rapidly in suitable formats: to public officials in support of the policy/decision making and planning, to resource managers for adaptive management, to the general public for triggering an informed discourse, and to the researchers for scientific discovery and knowledge creation. In this planning proposal, a"proof-of-concept."project is proposed as an antecedent to MEASURES. It involves extensive monitoring of air flow patterns of multiple space-time scales, movement of contaminant plumes from point sources and deposition thereof in the regional domain circa urban Phoenix, Arizona. Particular attention will be paid to total Mercury (Hg) associated with regional power plant emissions, considering that certain lakes in eastern Arizona are contaminated by this neurotoxin; this appears to be a regional counterpart of a serious global problem that is largely attributed to aerial transport/deposition and runoff.

0414372球提议创建一个网络框架的环境场所（EFF），重点是凤凰城大都市及其区域环境，作为NSF清洁程序工程分析网络的潜在节点。 这种称为措施（城市和区域生态系统中的多尺度环境分析）将强调与空气和水流有关的科学，工程和社会经济问题，以及在一系列时空尺度上的流通污染物的运输和分散。使用尖端传感器和通信技术，详细的理论分析和实验室实验，高性能计算模拟，复杂的预测建模和传感器模型融合的强烈观察是要采用的关键方法。数据和新发现将以合适的格式迅速传播：公职人员支持政策/决策制定和计划，向自适应管理的资源经理，向公众触发知情话语，并向科学发现和知识创造的研究人员提供。在此计划提案中，“概念验证”是提议作为措施的前提的。 它涉及对多个时空尺度的气流模式进行广泛的监测，从点源的污染物羽流以及在亚利桑那州大城市凤凰城地区的区域域中的沉积。考虑到亚利桑那州东部的某些湖泊受到这种神经毒素的污染，将特别注意与区域发电厂排放相关的总汞（HG）。这似乎是一个严重的全球问题的区域性，主要归因于空中运输/沉积和径流。