AEESP Symposium: On Frontiers in Assessment Methods for the Environment

该提案请求资金用于组织和举办一个名为“环境评估方法前沿”（FAME）的全国性研讨会，该研讨会由环境工程和科学教授协会（AEESP）赞助。FAME将专注于在环境测量系统和评估方法方面取得的突破性进展，这有望彻底改变科学家和工程师研究和解决各种规模复杂环境问题的方式。本次研讨会将于2003年8月10日至13日在明尼阿波利斯举行，主要由明尼苏达大学环境工程专业的教师为AEESP组织。这次研讨会是一系列研讨会的结果，这些研讨会是为了开发美国国家科学基金会环境工程领域的一项倡议——CLEANER而举行的。CLEANER代表环境研究协同大规模工程分析网络。它被设想为环境实地设施的联网基础设施，以便制订和发展恢复和保护环境资源的工程和政策备选办法。到目前为止，已经举办了三次关于CLEANER的讲习班：2001年12月在斯坦福大学；明尼苏达大学，2002年10月；2003年2月在杜克大学毕业。在这些研讨会的结果中，AEESP的领导人意识到需要一个广泛的研讨会，将在测量和评估技术，建模，数据处理和网络工具方面取得突破性进展的工程师和科学家以及来自学术机构的工程师和科学家聚集在一起，他们可以使用这些技术来彻底改变现场研究并开发更有效的环境工程科学研究。因此，研讨会将包括来自负责测量/评估方法技术进步的学科的个人和环境工程/科学界这项技术的潜在用户。这些进步包括化学和生物污染物传感器、原位仪器、分析复杂系统中物理、化学和生物过程的新建模技术，以及利用新技术产生的大型数据库的计算机系统的进步。研讨会参与者将有机会了解NSF提出的仪器化和网络化环境研究设施的倡议，如CLEANER，这是这些进步的自然产物。参加讨论会的有来自美国各地学术机构的工程师和科学家，以及从事涉及实地调查的环境研究的联邦和州机构的代表，以及来自私营部门的工程师。指导委员会将于2003年12月前将总结讨论会结果的报告提交给美国国家科学基金会环境工程项目。智力价值：研讨会将汇集来自不同学科的领导者，他们处于开发测量和分析系统的前沿，以及来自环境工程和科学界的研究人员，他们将以令人兴奋的新方式应用这些进步，以改进对大规模环境问题及其解决方案的研究。更广泛的影响：研讨会将是高度跨学科的，并将促进这些学科的前沿技术的思想和信息的交流，这将促进旨在解决一些社会最紧迫和最复杂的环境问题的研究项目的发展。我们以前的清洁工人讲习班在妇女和代表性不足的少数民族成员的参与方面非常有效，我们将在专题讨论会FAME中强调这种参与。

0333427 Brezonik This proposal requests funds to organize and conduct a national symposium called Frontiers in Assessment Methods for the Environment (FAME), which is being sponsored by the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP). FAME will focus on the groundbreaking advances being made in environmental measurement systems and assessment methods, which promise to revolutionize the ways scientists and engineers study and solve complicated environmental problems over a range of scales. The symposium is being organized for the AEESP primarily by faculty in the environmental engineering program from the University of Minnesota and will be held in Minneapolis, August 10-13, 2003.The symposium is an outgrowth of a series of workshops held to develop CLEANER, an initiative in the environmental engineering area of the NSF. CLEANER stands for Collaborative Large-scale Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research. It is envisioned as a networked infrastructure of environmental field facilities to enable formulation and development of engineering and policy options for the restoration and protection of environmental resources. Thus far, three workshops have been held on CLEANER: at Stanford University in December, 2001; the University of Minnesota in October, 2002; and Duke University in February, 2003.In a result of these workshops, leaders of AEESP became aware of the need for a broad symposium to bring together engineers and scientists who are making groundbreaking advances in measurement and assessment technologies, modeling, data processing and networking tools and the engineers and scientists from academic institutions who can use these techniques to revolutionize field research and develop more effective research in environmental engineering science.The symposium thus will include individuals from the disciplines responsible for technological advances in measurement/assessment methods and potential users of this technology in the environmental engineering/science community. These advances include sensors for chemical and biological contaminants, in situ instruments, new modeling techniques to analyze physical, chemical, and biological processes in complex systems, and advances in computer systems totake advantage of the large databases generated by new technologies. Symposium participants will have an opportunity to learn about proposed NSF initiatives for instrumented and networked environmental research facilities, such as CLEANER, that are a natural outgrowth of these advances.The symposium will be attended by engineers and scientists from academic institutions across the United States, as well as representatives of federal and state agencies that conduct environmental research involving field investigations, and engineers from the private sector. A report summarizing results of the symposium will be prepared by the steering committee and submitted to the Environmental Engineering Program in NSF by December, 2003.Intellectual Merit: The symposium will bring together leaders from a variety of disciplines at the forefront of developing measurement and analysis systems and researchers from the environmental engineering and sciences communities who will be applying these advances in exciting new ways to improve research into large-scale environmental problems and their solutions.Broader Impacts: The symposium will be highly interdisciplinary and will promote an exchange of ideas and information on cutting-edge technology across these disciplines that will promote the development of research programs aimed at solving some of society most pressing and complicated environmental problems. Our previous CLEANER workshop was highly effective in involving women and members of under-represented minorities, and we will emphasize this involvement in the symposium FAME.