2013 Environmental Nanotechnology Gordon Research Conference

描述(申请人提供)：第二届戈登环境纳米技术研究会议(GRC)将于2013年举行。这次会议汇集了来自世界各地的学术、政府和工业科学家，介绍和讨论了关于纳米材料的命运、运输和影响以及纳米技术在紧迫环境挑战中的广泛有用应用的最新研究成果。将探讨对人类和生态系统的风险和好处。计划中的GRC计划包括影响该领域的研究领域，从合成、表征、暴露、毒理学、计量学和风险评估，到这些材料在生物和环境基质中的运输、转化和最终命运。此外，主题还将探讨在能源生产、农业效率、医药和水净化领域使用工程纳米材料的最新发展，同时确保风险评估包括这些最新的纳米产品配方。预计将有200名科学家、工程师和毒物学家参加会议。这一相对较小的参与者群体将是促进活跃的讨论和密切的思想交流的理想选择，这是戈登研究会议的标志。会议还将有初级学者(本科生、博士后和博士后实习生)参加。此外，来自传统上代表人数不足的群体的科学家将参加。这个指导委员会有一个全面的邮件列表来宣布这次会议。由于环境纳米技术研究会议的与会者将不仅来自美国，而且将来自全球各地，除了来自行业和戈登研究会议的私人资金外，会议还将寻求国际机构和美国资助机构的部分支持。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This second Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Environmental Nanotechnology will be held in 2013. The conference brings together academic, government, and industrial scientists from around the world to present and discuss current research findings on the fate, transport, and impact of nanomaterial as well as on the wide range of useful applications of nanotechnology for pressing environmental challenges. Risks and benefits to both humans and ecosystems will be explored. The planned GRC program includes research areas that impact this field, from the synthesis, characterization, exposure, toxicology, metrology, and risk assessment, to the transport, transformation and ultimate fate of these materials in biological and environmental matrices. Additionally, topics will explore the newest developments in the use of engineered nanomaterial in the fields of energy production, agricultural efficiency, and medicine and water purification, whilst being sure the risk assessments include these newest nano-product formulations. It is anticipated that 200 scientists, engineers, and toxicologists will participate in the conference. This relatively small group of participants will be ideal to promote vigorous discussion and close interchange of ideas that is the hallmark of Gordon Research Conferences. The conference also will involve participants who are junior scholars (undergraduates, doctoral students and postdoctoral trainees). In addition, scientists from groups traditionally under represented will participate. Th steering committee has a comprehensive mailing list in place for announcing this meeting. Because participants of the Environmental Nanotechnology Research Conference will come from not only the U.S. but around the globe, partial support of the conference will be sought from international agencies and U.S. funding agencies in addition to private funding from industry and the Gordon Research Conferences.