CREST: Center for Aquatic Chemistry and the Environment

CREST：水生化学与环境中心

• 批准号: 1547798
• 负责人: Todd Crowl
• 金额: $ 500万
• 依托单位: Florida International University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-04-15 至 2023-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1547798&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CREST; Center; Aquatic; Chemistry; Environment

Center for Aquatic Chemistry and the EnvironmentWith National Science Foundation support, Florida International University will establish the Center for Aquatic Chemistry and the Environment. Human-derived environmental contaminants consist of antibiotics and pharmaceuticals, mercury, black carbon, and fossil fuels. These stressors are recognized as having significant effects on ecosystems and biota as well as on human wellbeing. It is critical to understand the biogeochemical processes that govern the fate of these compounds and their impacts on the ecosystem. Center for Aquatic Chemistry and the Environment research will address the sources, transport, transformation and ecosystem responses to contaminants, pollutants and other natural stressors, under changing land-use and environmental conditions.The Center for Aquatic Chemistry and the Environment will generate significant new knowledge regarding contaminants and pollutants in aquatic environments, as well as produce innovative methodologies for detecting and assessing contaminant quantities and impacts, including the use of molecular detection techniques. The proposed research will advance current efforts on the biological effects, transport, transformation and distribution of contaminants in the environment into new collaborative research areas that investigate the sources and transport of contaminants and pollutants in aquatic systems.The Center articulates three research subprojects organized around environmental chemistry, biogeochemistry, ecology and data synthesis and modeling as they pertain to regional water resources. The first subproject will advance the effectiveness of approaches for the analysis of traditional pollutants, develop methodologies for the characterization and quantification of previously unknown contaminants and extend the applicability of molecular biology methodologies to assess environmental stressors to aquatic organisms across land-use boundaries. The second subproject uses new sensing techniques to determine biogeochemical cycles including contaminant sources, storage, transport and transformations. The third research subproject develops data analytic methods to enable synthesis across large, complex data sets to allow holistic effects assessment for understanding South Florida's aquatic ecosystem.The Center for Aquatic Chemistry and the Environment will establish innovative opportunities for students to experience authentic and socially relevant environmental research and foster their development as future STEM professionals.

水化学与环境中心在美国国家科学基金会的支持下，佛罗里达国际大学将建立水化学与环境中心。人类来源的环境污染物包括抗生素和药物，汞，炭黑和化石燃料。这些压力被认为对生态系统和生物区系以及人类福祉具有重大影响。了解这些化合物的命运及其对生态系统的影响的地球化学过程至关重要。水化学与环境研究中心将研究在不断变化的土地利用和环境条件下，污染物、污染物和其他自然压力源的来源、运输、转化和生态系统响应。水化学与环境研究中心将产生有关水环境中污染物和污染物的重要新知识，并制定检测和评估污染物数量和影响的创新方法，包括使用分子检测技术。该研究将推动目前在环境中污染物的生物效应、运输、转化和分布方面的努力，进入新的合作研究领域，调查污染物和污染物在水生系统中的来源和运输。该中心阐述了围绕环境化学、生物地球化学、生态学和数据合成和建模组织的三个研究子项目，因为它们涉及区域水资源。第一个分项目将提高传统污染物分析方法的有效性，制定以前未知污染物的定性和定量方法，并扩大分子生物学方法的适用范围，以评估环境压力对跨越土地使用边界的水生生物的影响。第二个子项目使用新的传感技术来确定地球化学循环，包括污染物的来源、储存、运输和转化。第三个研究子项目开发数据分析方法，使综合在大型，复杂的数据集，让整体影响评估了解南佛罗里达的水生生态系统。中心水生化学和环境将建立创新的机会，让学生体验真实的和社会相关的环境研究，并促进他们的发展，未来的干专业人员。