CAREER: Beach Contributions of Pathogen Indicators and Pathogens to Coastal Waters

建议编号：0641406 CAREER：海滩病原体指标和病原体对沿海水域的贡献世界上44%的人口居住在沿海社区，这一数字还将继续增长。海岸线和沿海水域是非常宝贵的自然资源，为社会提供食物、收入和众多生态系统服务。为了在越来越大的人为压力下为子孙后代维持健康的沿海生态系统和清洁的沿海水域，我们需要为沿海边缘制定健全的管理做法和政策。拟议的工作通过阐明控制海岸线上FIB密度的人为和环境因素来满足这一需要。拟议的研究活动将使整个社会受益，因为它提供的信息将有助于更好地管理休闲海滩的人类健康风险。这份职业建议中提出的综合研究和教育计划旨在为下一代环境工程师提供解决多学科沿海水质问题的技能。参与拟议研究/教育活动的学生将是环境工程师，他们在微生物学、沿海海洋学、政策和法律方面接受过广泛的基础知识培训，因此受过良好的教育，能够解决复杂的沿海水质问题。由于未来的环境问题将需要精通多学科的调查人员，学生们将为未来的环境问题解决做好准备。该教育计划以沿海水质为主题，利用实地项目和实践经验作为学习工具。初中生、本科生和研究生以及高中教师是教育计划的目标。具体目标包括与律师共同教授一门新颖的跨学科环境工程课程，以及与当地一家废水处理厂作为社区合作伙伴共同教授一门服务学习课程。PI将指导来自东帕洛阿尔托的未被充分代表的高中生，为贫困初中生和高中生创建一个为期一天的斯坦福大学向上跳跃计划的水质模块，并与一名高中教师合作，为高中理科课程开发实地和实验室项目。

Boehm, AlexandriaStanford UniversityProposal Number: 0641406CAREER: Beach Contributions of Pathogen Indicators and Pathogens to Coastal WatersForty-four percent of the world's population resides in coastal communities and thisnumber will continue to grow. The shoreline and coastal waters are highly valued natural resources providing society with food, revenue, and numerous ecosystem services. To maintain healthy coastal ecosystems and clean coastal waters for future generations under increasing anthropogenic pressures, we need to develop sound management practices and policies for coastal margins. The proposed work addresses this need by elucidating anthropogenic and environmental factors that control densities of FIB along the shoreline. The proposed research activities will benefit society as a whole by providing information that will allow for better management of human health risks at recreational beaches.The integrated research and education plan presented in this CAREER proposal aims to provide the next generation of environmental engineers with skills to solve multi-disciplinary coastal water quality problems. The students who participate in the proposed research/education activities will be environmental engineers trained in fundamentals with breadth in microbiology, coastal oceanography, policy, and law, and thus well educated to tackle complex coastal water quality problems. As environmental problems of the future will require well-versed multidisciplinary investigators, the students will be well prepared for a future in environmental problem solving. The education plan focuses on coastal water quality as a theme and uses field projects and hands-on experiences as vehicles for learning. Middle and high school students, undergraduate and graduate students, and high school teachers are targets for the education plan. Specific objectives include the implementation of a novel, interdisciplinary environmental engineering class to be co-taught with lawyers, and a service learning class to be taught with a local wastewater treatment plant as the community partner. The PI will mentor under-represented high school students from East Palo Alto, create a 1-day module on water quality for Stanford0s Upward Bound program for under-privileged middle and high school students, and work with a high school teacher to develop field and lab projects for high school science classes.