IRES Track I: US-Brazil Integrating Engineering and Anthropology Research to Expand Perspectives on Water and Sustainability

IRES 第一轨：美国-巴西整合工程和人类学研究，拓展水和可持续发展的视角

• 批准号: 1827251
• 负责人: Matthew Verbyla
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: San Diego State University Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1827251&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IRES; Track; US; Brazil; Integrating

This project will enable cohorts of students from engineering, anthropology, and other sustainability-related disciplines to collaborate and study the efficacy of sanitation and wastewater treatment technologies as well as the role of culture and local perceptions on the safe recovery of energy, nutrients, and clean water from human excreta and wastewater. Over the course of three years, a total of 18 US students will be supported to study the performance of different technologies at the Center for Research and Training in Sanitation (CePTS) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. This facility, which is co-managed by the Federal University of Minas Gerais and the State Wastewater Company of Minas Gerais, contains pilot-scale reactors that treat real wastewater from the city of Belo Horizonte. Considered one of the most important research and professional training centers of its kind in the Americas, it is used as a test site to evaluate the effectiveness of new technologies and train wastewater system operators. In addition to broadening students' perspectives about sanitation, resource recovery, and risk within an interdisciplinary team setting, this project will also allow students to improve their intercultural abilities. The researchers will seek to recruit students that reflect our demographics as Title V Hispanic Serving Institutions, with a particular focus on underrepresented groups in the sciences and engineering. Students will participate in a five-day intensive crash course on Brazilian culture and Portuguese language, led by the San Diego State University Program on Brazil, where they will learn to articulate the opinions and perspectives of people from different cultures and backgrounds. They will gain an awareness of international, interdisciplinary, and community perspectives on the role of engineering and technology in the management of water, energy, and food systems. After participating in the research experience, students will share their experiences by engaging in local outreach activities at K-12 schools in Southern California.The integration of water reuse and resource recovery into wastewater treatment and sanitation systems provides opportunities to simultaneously meet several of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. However, the challenges of choosing appropriate and sustainable technologies are just as much social as they are technical. Inadequate assumptions about local attitudes and the role of technology in development can lead to the failure of systems. Thus, there is a need to integrate studies of the efficacy of sanitation and resource recovery technologies with assessments of social and cultural factors that influence perceptions about these technologies, as well as the perceived value and risk of recovering resources from wastewater and excreta. This three-year International Research Experience for Students (IRES) project will send interdisciplinary cohorts of six students each year (from Engineering, Anthropology and an interdisciplinary Sustainability Program) to Belo Horizonte, Brazil, to participate in a research experience with foreign mentorship at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). Students will study the removal of emerging contaminants and characterize the risks associated with resource recovery from pilot-scale established and emerging wastewater treatment technologies at the Center for Research and Training in Sanitation (CePTS), which is co-managed by UFMG and the State Wastewater Company of Minas Gerais. Students will also investigate perceived values and risks through ethnographic research with community members and local stakeholders in the water and wastewater sector. The results of this research will support a new and growing field of interdisciplinary scientific literature on the topic of water, culture, and sustainability.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目将使工程学，人类学和其他与可持续性有关的学科的学生能够合作和研究卫生和废水处理技术的疗效，以及文化和当地看法对人类excreta and Searcreta and Sunterients的安全恢复能量，营养和清洁水的作用。在三年的时间里，将支持18名美国学生在巴西Belo Horizo​​nte的卫生与培训中心（CEPTS）研究不同技术的表现。该设施由米纳斯·格拉斯联邦大学（Minas Gerais）和米纳斯·格拉斯（Minas Gerais）的州废水公司共同管理，其中包含了从贝洛·高兰特（Belo Horizo​​nte）市处理真实废水的试验反应堆。它被认为是美洲同类研究中心最重要的研究和专业培训中心之一，它被用作测试地点，以评估新技术和培训废水系统运营商的有效性。除了扩大学生对跨学科团队环境中卫生，资源恢复和风险的看法外，该项目还将允许学生提高其跨文化能力。研究人员将寻求招募反映我们的人口统计学的学生，以此作为标题V西班牙裔服务机构，特别关注科学和工程学中代表性不足的群体。学生将参加由圣地亚哥州立大学在巴西的计划，他们将学习关于巴西文化和葡萄牙语的五天密集课程，在那里他们将学会阐明来自不同文化和背景的人们的观点和观点。他们将了解有关工程和技术在水，能源和食品系统管理中的作用的国际，跨学科和社区观点。在参与研究经验之后，学生将通过在南加州的K-12学校从事当地外展活动来分享他们的经验。将水再利用和资源恢复到废水治疗和卫生系统中的整合提供了同时实现联合国几个可持续发展目标的机会。但是，选择合适和可持续的技术的挑战与技术一样多。关于当地态度和技术在发展中的作用的假设不足可能导致系统失败。因此，有必要将对卫生和资源恢复技术的功效的研究与影响对这些技术的看法的社会和文化因素的评估以及从废水和排泄物中恢复资源的可感知价值和风险。这项为期三年的学生研究经验（IRES）项目将每年派遣六名学生（从工程，人类学和跨学科可持续发展计划）派遣跨学科的人群到巴西的Belo Horizo​​nte，参加联邦Minas Gerais大学（UFMG）的外国指导研究经验。学生将研究去除新兴污染物，并表征与卫生研究与培训中心（CEPTS）的试验尺度和新兴废水处理技术相关的风险，UFMG和Minas Gerais的州Wastewater Company共同管理。学生还将通过民族志研究与社区成员以及水和废水领域的当地利益相关者进行民族志研究调查感知的价值和风险。这项研究的结果将支持有关水，文化和可持续性主题的跨学科科学文献的新领域。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估评估的评估来支持的。

项目成果

Reduction and partitioning of viral and bacterial indicators in a UASB reactor followed by high rate algal ponds treating domestic sewage

• DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144309
• 发表时间: 2021-03-15
• 期刊: SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
• 影响因子: 9.8
• 作者: Espinosa, Maria Fernanda;Verbyla, Matthew E.;Mota, Cesar Rossas
• 通讯作者: Mota, Cesar Rossas

Systematic review and meta-analysis of time-temperature pathogen inactivation

• DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2020.113595
• 发表时间: 2020-09-01
• 期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYGIENE AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
• 影响因子: 6
• 作者: Espinosa, Maria Fernanda;Sancho, A. Natanael;Verbyla, Matthew E.
• 通讯作者: Verbyla, Matthew E.