Conference: 2011 Environmental Nanotechnology Gordon Research Conference, Valley Resort, NH, May 29 to June 3, 2011

学术价值：首届戈登环境纳米技术研究会议((http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2011&amp；program=environano)将于2011年5月29日至6月3日在华盛顿州沃特维尔山谷度假村举行。到目前为止，纳米材料对人类健康和环境的潜在影响是有限的，因为对其开发、操纵和广泛应用的风险了解不足。新的科学发现表明，纳米级的粒子，无论是超细的、工程的、有意的还是附带的粒子，都对物理、化学和生物表征构成了挑战。这次会议的首要目标是将来自世界各地的学术界、工业界和政府的科学家聚集在一起，介绍和讨论关于纳米技术和工程纳米材料的命运、运输和对人类健康、环境和社会的影响的最新研究成果。计划中的GRC计划包括影响该领域的广泛研究领域，从合成、表征和暴露，到毒理学、计量学和风险评估，再到这些材料在生物和环境基质中的运输、转化和最终命运。正式和非正式的讨论将突出未来的方向。预计将有180名物理和社会科学家、工程师和毒理学家参加围绕最新研究成果的陈述和讨论。这次会议将促进新的合作，使人们更好地了解与环境和生物命运、运输、持久性、转化、暴露评估、可回收性以及工程纳米材料的整体可持续发展相关的挑战。广泛的影响：戈登研究会议为展示和讨论生物、化学和物理科学及其相关技术的前沿研究提供了一个国际论坛，75多年来，一直被视为世界？S首要的科学会议。2011年戈登环境纳米技术研究会议将提请人们注意，有必要积极管理纳米技术进入社会的情况，以避免以前的技术和化合物出现的问题，如涉及滴滴涕、含铅汽油、多氯联苯、氟氯化碳的问题。预计将有180名物理和社会科学家、工程师和毒理学家参加围绕最新研究成果的陈述和讨论。相对较小的与会者群体将是促进积极讨论和密切交流思想的理想选择，这些都是戈登研究会议的标志。这次会议将吸引25-35名初级学者(博士后和博士后)参加。因此，会议将为处于不同职业阶段的科学家提供网络机会。为期一周的日程安排和对讨论时间的重视促进了年轻研究人员和更成熟的研究人员之间的互动。在环境纳米技术这一广泛的主题上，几乎没有类似的会议，这增强了这一事件对新研究人员的重要性。此外，来自科学界代表性不足群体的几名科学家将在会议上发挥关键作用。环境纳米技术研究会议的与会者将不仅来自美国，还将来自全球，确保有一个多元化的专家小组，以促进具有启发性的讨论。

Intellectual Merit: The inaugural Gordon Research Conference on Environmental Nanotechnology (http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2011&program=environano ) will be held at the Waterville Valley Resort, NH from May 29 to June 3, 2011. To date, the potential impacts of nanomaterials on human health and the environment have been limited due to insufficient understanding of the risks associated with its development, manipulation and wide-ranging applications. Emerging scientific findings indicate that nanoscale particles, whether they are ultrafine, engineered, intentional, or incidental particles, pose challenges for physical, chemical and biological characterization. The overarching goal of this conference is to bring together academic, industrial, and government scientists from around the world to present and discuss current research findings on the fate, transport and impact of nanotechnology and engineered nanomaterials on human health, the environment, and society. The planned GRC program includes the wide range of research areas that impact this field, from the synthesis, characterization, and exposure, through toxicology, metrology, and risk assessment, to the transport, transformation and ultimate fate of these materials in biological and environmental matrices. Formal and informal discussions will highlight future directions. It is anticipated that 180 physical and social scientists, engineers, and toxicologists, will participate in the presentations and discussions surrounding recent research results. The conference will foster new collaboration that will provide a better understanding of the challenges associated with the environmental and biological fate, transport, persistence, transformation, exposure assessment, recyclability, and the overall sustainability of engineered nanomaterials.Broader Impacts: The Gordon Research Conferences provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of frontier research in the biological, chemical, and physical sciences, and their related technologies, and for over 75 years, have been viewed as the world?s premier scientific meetings. The 2011 Gordon Research Conference on Environmental Nanotechnology will draw attention to the need to proactively manage the emergence of nanotechnology into society so as to avert such problems that arose with previous technologies and compounds such as those involving DDT, leaded gasoline, PCBs, CFCs. It is anticipated that 180 physical and social scientists, engineers, and toxicologists, will participate in the presentations and discussions surrounding recent research results. The relatively small group of participants will be ideal to promote vigorous discussion and close interchange of ideas that are the hallmark of the Gordon Research Conferences. The conference will attract between 25-35 participants who are junior scholars (doctoral and postdoctoral students).Thus the conference will provide networking opportunities for scientists at different career stages. The weeklong schedule and emphasis on discussion time foster interactions between young investigators and more established researchers. There are few if any similar conferences in the broad topic of Environmental Nanotechnology, enhancing the importance of this event to new investigators. In addition, several scientists from underrepresented groups in science will play key roles in the conference. Participants of the Environmental Nanotechnology Research Conference will come from not only the US but around the globe, ensuring a diverse and expert group to facilitate stimulating discussions.