US-Australia Planning Visit: Sustainable Urban Water Management

该项目支持美澳在可持续城市水资源管理方面的合作研究。项目负责人是田纳西大学（UT）的Jon Hathaway博士，他提议与澳大利亚研究人员Tim Fletcher博士（墨尔本大学资源管理与地理系）和David McCarthy博士（墨尔本莫纳什大学土木工程系）合作。Drs。弗莱彻和麦卡锡正在开发和完善城市河流中污染物运输、雨水径流和雨水控制的新模型。哈撒韦博士是雨洪系统现场监测和雨洪控制中污染物去除相关过程的专家。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，从而提高UT（以及美国）的雨水建模能力。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。该项目将允许美国和澳大利亚的研究人员在水中污染物的命运和运输、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。美国和世界各地的许多溪流和河流不符合微生物的水质标准，部分原因是城市化的污染。城市河流、径流和雨水控制中指示细菌和病原体（以及其他有毒污染物）建模的协作工作对公共卫生至关重要。由于雨水系统污染物模拟技术的进步，预计也会产生经济影响。研究人员将通过实践培训和课堂讨论来传播本研究中获得的知识。该奖项由环境工程项目、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.