U.S.-Korea Workshop on Riverbank Filtration Performance Under Extreme Environmental Conditions

OISE 0527378 RayThis奖项支持“美国-韩国极端环境条件下河岸过滤性能研讨会”。 讲习班将于2005年11月在韩国首尔举行。首席研究员是夏威夷大学土木与环境工程系的奇塔兰詹雷。 韩国同行是韩国科学技术研究所水环境和修复中心的首席研究科学家Kyu-Hong Ahn博士。 KIST参与了沿着流经首尔市的丹川河（汉江的一条支流）的一个试点河岸过滤系统，该河流的水质和流量在一年中变化很大。 研讨会的参与者将集思广益，在极端环境条件下的河岸过滤的可行性，并讨论什么类型的研究战略必须采取监测和评估这些系统的性能，一旦他们建成。来自美国的九名参与者，（包括一名博士）候选人），和六个预定的发言人从韩国显示了良好的平衡之间的高级和更初级的研究人员，相关的研究专业的组合，以及良好的范围内的机构在美国和韩国也。KIST和Yeungnam大学的几名韩国研究生也将参加。在未来的几十年里，可用的饮用水是一种资源，在这个国家和世界上都会变得越来越稀缺和宝贵。 美国水文界和水资源管理人员可以从韩国试点河岸过滤系统的经验中受益，该系统可以提供在美国可能不经常发生的极端条件下的性能数据和经验教训。

OISE 0527378 RayThis award supports a "US-Korea Workshop on Riverbank Filtration Performance Under Extreme Environmental Conditions". The workshop will be held in Seoul, Korea, in November 2005. The principal investigator is Chittaranjan Ray, of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Hawaii. Korean counterpart is Dr. Kyu-Hong Ahn, principal research scientist in the Water Enviroment and Remediation Center, of the Korean Institute of Science and Technology (KIST). KIST is involved in a pilot riverbank filtration system along the Tancheon River (a tributary of the Han River) that flows through the city of Seoul, where the quality and flow variations in the river water are significant over the year. The workshop participants will brainstorm the feasibility of riverbank filtration under extreme environmental settings and discuss what types of research strategies must be taken to monitor and evaluate the performance of such systems once they are built. The nine participants from the U.S.,(including one Ph.D. candidate), and six scheduled speakers from Korea show a good balance between senior and more junior investigators, a mix of relevant research specialties, and a good range of institutions in the US and also in Korea. Several Korean graduate students from KIST and Yeungnam University will also attend. In the decades ahead, usable drinking water is a resource that will become increasingly scarce and valuable in this country, as in the world. The U.S. hydrological community and water resource managers can benefit from the experience of the Korean pilot riverbank filtration system, which can provide data on performance and lessons learned in extreme conditions which may not occur so frequently in the U.S.