IRES: U.S.-Germany Collaborative Research and Education on Riverbank Filtration Systems for Drinking Water Supply

这项由佐治亚大学的PI Chittaranjan Ray提出的国际学生研究经验（IRES）提案将支持美国学生参与以河岸过滤（RBF）供水系统成功运行为中心的假设驱动研究。RBF在欧洲已经实践了一个多世纪，它在美国被更频繁地使用，因为城市使用RBF根据EPA规定获得去除病原体的过滤积分。美国学生将与德累斯顿应用科学大学的Thomas Grischek和dessseldorf自来水厂的Paul Eckert领导的德国团队合作。在三年的时间里，每年，四名美国学生将与德国研究人员和学生一起，通过在德国进行为期八周的夏季教育和研究活动，了解河岸过滤（RBF）技术。在德国，RBF用于供水。这项研究的重点将是了解RBF所涉及的过程，以及河流动力学（冲刷和堵塞）和水温变化如何影响抽水的质量和数量。将努力从主要合作机构和佐治亚大学招收女学生和代表性不足的少数民族学生。

This International Research Experience for Students (IRES) proposal from PI Chittaranjan Ray of the University of Georgia will support U.S. students' participation in hypothesis-driven research centered on successful operation of riverbank filtration (RBF) systems for water supply. RBF has been practiced for over a century in Europe, and it is being used more often in the U.S. as cities use RBF to receive filtration credits for pathogen removal under EPA regulations. The U.S. students will collaborate with German teams led by Thomas Grischek of the University of Applied Sciences in Dresden and Paul Eckert of the Düsseldorf Waterworks. In each year over a three year period, four American students, working with German researchers and students, will learn about riverbank filtration (RBF) through an eight-week summer education and research activity in Germany where RBF is used for water supply. The key focus of the study will be on gaining an understanding of the processes involved in RBF and how river dynamics (scouring and clogging) and water temperature changes can affect the quality and quantity of water pumped. Recruitment efforts will be made to recruit female students and under-represented minority students from key collaborating institutions as well as from the University of Georgia.