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.

建议创建一个网络基础设施环境现场设施（EFF），重点关注凤凰城及其周边地区，作为NSF CLEANER计划的工程分析网络的潜在节点。这个EFF被称为MEASURES（城市和区域生态系统的多尺度环境分析），将强调与空气和水的流动有关的科学、工程和社会经济问题，以及流动污染物在一系列时空尺度上的运输和扩散。采用尖端传感器和通信技术的密集观测、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是采用的关键方法。数据和新发现将以适当的形式迅速传播给政府官员，以支持政策/决策和规划；传播给资源管理人员，以进行适应性管理；传播给一般公众，以引发知情的讨论；传播给研究人员，以进行科学发现和知识创造。在这个规划提案中，一个“概念验证”。项目被提议作为措施的先决条件。它包括对多个时空尺度的空气流动模式的广泛监测，来自点源的污染物羽流的运动及其在亚利桑那州凤凰城周围区域的沉积。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，将特别关注与区域发电厂排放有关的总汞（Hg）；这似乎是主要归因于空中运输/沉积和径流的严重全球问题的区域对应。