Workshop: Natural Organic Matter and its Impact on Drinking Water

ABSTRACT1521562(Gonsior)该奖项支持国际旅行和注册研讨会“NOM 2015-第六届IWA饮用水中天然有机物专家研讨会”(NOM 6)，供6名职业早期教师、1名博士后学者和10名学生参加。NOM 6研讨会是一次重要的国际会议，专家们齐聚一堂，讨论最近关注天然有机物(NOM)对饮用水系统影响的研究工作，该研讨会由国际水协会(IWA)和瑞典水务公司Sydvatten联合举办。它将于2015年9月在瑞典举行。在这次研讨会上，NOM的专家与环境工程师一起促进了新的合作，并促进了对NOM及其对饮用水处理过程的影响的科学理解。旅行团队成员跨越了NOM的一个很大的研究领域，以及它与饮用水处理的关系。旅游团队的所有成员将进行口头或海报演示。旅游团队将合作撰写一篇评论文章，重点讨论NOM在饮用水处理过程中的命运和影响；该手稿将于2016年3月提交。NOM影响着世界各地的饮用水处理过程，但由于源水质量和监管框架的差异，特定地区面临着独特的处理挑战。旅行团队代表了美国不同地理位置的地区(东北部、东南部、中西部、西部和西南部地区)，每个地区在水资源和姓名签名方面都有重要差异；因此，NOM 6研讨会将为六名教职员工和一名博士后学者提供一个与彼此和国际参与者建立新合作的途径。这次研讨会将研究人员、顾问和饮用水公用事业代表聚集在一起，使他们能够接触到来自世界各地的不同的NOM挑战和解决方案。生物地球化学家和环境工程师之间的知识转移对于增进对NOM及其水处理过程的复杂性的理解至关重要，以便充分利用当代分析工具和基本理解来应对新出现的饮用水处理挑战。

ABSTRACT1521562 (Gonsior)This award supports international travel and registration for the workshop "NOM 2015 - 6th IWA Specialist Workshop on Natural Organic Matter in Drinking Water" (NOM 6) for six early-career faculty, one post-doctoral scholar, and 10 students. The NOM 6 workshop is an important international meeting that brings experts together to discuss recent research efforts focused on the impact of natural organic matter (NOM) on drinking water systems and is jointly organized by the International Water Association (IWA) and the Swedish water utility Sydvatten. It will be held in September 2015 in Sweden. At this workshop, experts in NOM join with environmental engineers to foster new collaborations and to advance the scientific understanding of NOM and its impacts on drinking water treatment processes. The travel team members span a large research area of NOM and how it relates to drinking water treatment. All members of the travel team will give an oral or poster presentation. The travel team will collaborate on a review article focused on the fate and effects of NOM during drinking water treatment; that manuscript is to be submitted by March, 2016. NOM affects drinking water treatment processes around the world, but specific regions face unique treatment challenges due to differences in source water quality and regulatory framework. The travel team represents geographically diverse regions of the United States (Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, West, and Southwest regions) that each have important differences in water resources and NOM signatures; therefore, the NOM 6 workshop will provide a means for the six faculty participants and a post-doctoral scholar to build new collaborations with each other and international participants. This workshop brings researchers, consultants, and drinking water utility representatives together and allows for exposure to different NOM challenges and solutions from around the world. Knowledge transfer between biogeochemists and environmental engineers is crucial to advance understanding of NOM and its complexity with water treatment processes, so that emerging drinking water treatment challenges are approached with full utilization of contemporary analytical tools and fundamental understanding.