US-Australia Planning Visit: Sustainable Urban Water Management

该项目支持美国和澳大利亚在可持续城市水管理方面开展合作研究。田纳西大学(UT)的Jon Hathaway博士建议与澳大利亚研究人员Tim Fletcher博士(系)合作。墨尔本大学资源管理和地理系)和David McCarthy博士(系墨尔本莫纳什大学土木工程系)。弗莱彻博士和麦卡锡博士正在开发和完善城市河流中污染物传输、雨水径流和雨水控制的新模型。Hathaway博士是雨水控制系统中与污染物去除相关的雨水系统和流程的现场监测专家。该项目将通过在澳大利亚开发的模型中使用UT收集的数据，为未来的美澳合作铺平道路，反之亦然，从而增强UT(从而也是美国)的暴雨建模能力。我们的最终目标是实现基于单元过程的校准建模，这可能会改变雨水管理领域。该项目将使美国和澳大利亚的研究人员能够在水中污染物的去向和传输、高质量供水的可用性以及能源和资源消耗的环境工程影响等领域进行更具体和有效的研究。美国和世界各地众多的溪流和河流不符合微生物的水质标准，部分原因是城市化造成的污染。在城市溪流、径流和雨水控制中的指示细菌和病原体(以及其他有毒污染物)建模方面的合作工作对公共健康至关重要。预计污染物的雨水系统模型的进展也会产生经济影响。研究人员将通过实践培训和课堂讨论来传播在这项研究中获得的知识。该奖项由环境工程计划化学、生物工程、环境和运输部门共同资助。

This project supports the development of US-Australian collaborative research in sustainable urban water management. The PI, Dr. Jon Hathaway of The University of Tennessee (UT), proposes to collaborate with Australian researchers Dr. Tim Fletcher (Dept. of Resource Management and Geography, University of Melbourne) and Dr. David McCarthy (Dept. of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne). Drs. Fletcher and McCarthy are developing and refining new models of pollutant transport in urban streams, stormwater runoff, and stormwater controls. Dr. Hathaway is an expert in field monitoring of stormwater systems and processes related to pollutant removal in stormwater controls. This project would pave the way for future US-Australian collaboration by using data collected by UT in models developed in Australia and vice versa, enhancing stormwater modeling capabilities at UT (and thus the United States). Our ultimate goal of achieving calibrated modeling based on unit processes could transform the field of stormwater management. This project will allow both US and Australian researchers to conduct more specific and effective research in the areas of fate and transport of contaminants in water, the availability of high quality water supplies, and the environmental engineering implications of energy and resource consumption.Numerous streams and rivers in the United States and across the world do not meet water quality criteria for microbes due, in part, to contamination from urbanization. Collaborative work on indicator bacteria and pathogen (and other toxic pollutants) modeling in urban streams, runoff, and stormwater controls is critical to public health. Economic impacts are also expected as a result of advances in stormwater system modeling for pollutants. The researchers will disseminate the knowledge gained in this research through hands-on training and classroom discussions.This award is co-funded by the Environmental Engineering Program, Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport.