Presidential Young Investigators Award

这是一个支持项目的奖项，该项目涉及地下水质量建模和管理，评估工程设计的不确定性--特别是含水层补救问题，通过最佳数据收集努力将成本降至最低，在含水层性质变化的模型中纳入更强的地质成分，并发展地下水污染和水资源短缺。所有这些主题都涉及作为关键组成部分的水文地质模拟。研究将包括评估工程设计中的“数据价值”，研究空间可变的含水层特性对地下水流动和污染物迁移的影响，以及水文地质实测值与模拟模型中出现的相应参数之间的关系。这是对这位总统青年研究员的初步奖励，他在受雇于斯坦福大学之前曾在美国地质调查局工作。他对调查的研究包括工程设计优化、污染物传输模型参数估计和不确定性分析，以及基于模拟的水分配政策评估。这一背景适用于他计划利用该奖项提供的支持所做的工作。

This is an award to support a project involving groundwater quality modelling and management, evaluating engineering design uncertainty - particularly for problems of aquifer remediation, minimizing costs through optimal data collection efforts, incorporating a stronger geologic component in models of the variability of aquifer properties, and developing groundwater contamination and water shortages. All these topics involve hydrogeologic simulation as a critical component. Research will include evaluating the "worth of data" in engineering design, studying the effects of spatially variable aquifer properties on groundwater flow and contaminant transport, and the relationship between hydrogeologic field measurements and the corresponding parameters appearing in our simulation models. This is the initial award for this Presidential Young Investigator who worked for the U.S. Geological Survey prior to being employed by Stanford University. His research for the Survey involved optimization of engineering design, contaminant -transport model parameter estimation and uncertainty analysis, and simulation-based evaluation of water allocation policy. This background is applicable to the work he plans to do with support provided by this award.