Linking the fundamental concepts of sediment pollution remediation and ecotoxicity for improved engineering designs

这项提议将把沉积物修复工程师、生态毒物学家和水文地球化学家聚集在他们职业生涯的早期阶段。他们将在纽卡斯尔大学举行为期一周的发布会会议，了解彼此对沉积物污染问题的概念性理解，并讨论这些问题的可行解决方案。启动活动将包括口头陈述的学科跳跃，不同学科的研究人员一对一地相互解释他们的研究成果，在校准和使用污染物去向模拟工具方面的实用培训，参观当地有沉积物污染的地点，小组讨论沉积物污染国际案例研究的可能解决方案，以及更好的沉积物污染跨学科模型的概念设计及其对沉积物栖息和水生生物的影响。在发布会期间，研究人员将提交与伙伴机构开展人员交流活动的建议。这样的个人访问将使研究人员加深对其他机构和其他学科工作的相互了解。预计未来的国际和跨学科研究合作将从这种机会中产生，建立的个人联系将在年轻参与者的整个职业生涯中继续发挥作用。

This proposal will bring together sediment remediation engineers, ecotoxicologists and hydrogeochemists at an early stage of their career. They will gather for a one week launch event at Newcastle University to learn about each others conceptual understanding of sediment pollution issues and to discuss feasible solutions to these. The launch activities will include discipline hopping in oral presentations, one-on-one pairing of researchers from different disciplines explaining their research efforts to each other, practical training in the calibration and use of pollutant fate modelling tools, visits to local sites with sediment pollution, group discussion of possible solutions to international case studies of sediment pollution, and the conceptual design of better interdisciplinary models of sediment pollution and its effect on sediment-dwelling and aquatic organisms.During the launch event the researchers will submit proposals for people exchange activities with the partner institutions. Such individual visits will allow the researchers to deepen the mutual understanding of work at other institutions and in other disciplines. It is expected that future international and interdisciplinary research collaborations will emerge from such opportunities, and that the established personal contacts will continue to pay dividends throughout the career of the young participants.