US-Australia Planning Visit: Sustainable Urban Water Management

美澳规划访问：可持续城市水资源管理

• 批准号: 1361572
• 负责人: Jon Hathaway
• 金额: $ 3.2万
• 依托单位: University of Tennessee Knoxville
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-06-15 至 2016-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1361572&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: US; Australia; Planning; Visit; Sustainable

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.

该项目支持美国 - 澳大利亚可持续城市水管理方面的合作研究。 PI，田纳西大学（UT）（UT）的乔恩·海瑟薇（Jon Hathaway）博士建议与澳大利亚研究人员蒂姆·弗莱彻（Tim Fletcher）博士（墨尔本大学资源管理和地理部门）和戴维·麦卡锡（David McCarthy）（梅尔什大学莫纳什大学土木工程）合作。博士。弗莱彻（Fletcher）和麦卡锡（McCarthy）正在城市溪流，雨水径流和雨水控制中开发和完善新的污染物运输模型。 Hathaway博士是对雨水系统的现场监测和与雨水控制中污染物去除有关的过程的专家。该项目将通过使用UT在澳大利亚开发的模型中收集的数据来为未来的美国澳大利亚合作铺平道路，反之亦然，从而增强了UT（以及美国）的雨水建模能力。我们基于单位流程实现校准建模的最终目标可能会改变雨水管理领域。该项目将使我们和澳大利亚研究人员都可以在水中污染物的命运和运输领域进行更具体有效的研究，高质量的供水的可用性以及能源和资源消费的环境工程意义。关于指标细菌和病原体（以及其他有毒污染物）在城市流，径流和雨水控制中建模的合作工作对于公共卫生至关重要。由于污染物的雨水系统建模的进步，经济影响也有望产生。研究人员将通过动手培训和课堂讨论传播这项研究中获得的知识。该奖项由化学，生物工程，环境和运输部的环境工程计划共同资助。