U.S.-India Workshop: The Interface of Water Quality Issues and Infectious Diseases, Bengaluru, January 4-8, 2010.

0929551拉梅什·戈尔该奖项支持美国-印度研讨会：水质问题和传染病的接口，孟加拉国，印度，2010年1月4日至8日。 犹他州大学的Ramesh Goel教授和印度科学研究所的Sekhar Muddu博士将召开一个为期5天的研讨会，重点是发展研究和教育合作，研究地表沃茨中过量营养物质对环境和健康的影响以及具有成本效益的去除过程。 由于印度拥有世界上十个城市化最快的城市中的三个，这次研讨会为美国和印度科学家在这一主题领域开展新的合作提供了一个难得的机会。 智力优势 PI认为，目前对地表沃茨中过量营养物的理解和具有成本效益的去除工艺主要是基于西方背景的研究，对印度等国家从地表沃茨中去除过量营养物的理解只有初步的了解。 富营养化是一个众所周知的环境问题，但其对人类健康的影响还没有得到很好的研究。 本次研讨会的目标是通过比较美国和印度的方法来研究与城市生态系统和水传播传染病有关的地表沃茨中过量营养物质，从而研究理论，方法和教育应用。 富营养化是一个全球性的环境问题，将引起大多数讲习班与会者的高度兴趣，预计将引起广泛的注意。 研讨会组织者预计将取得以下成果：1）两到三个研究提案，研究快速发展的城市中的地表水和处理系统，2）提交给全球变化科学同行评审期刊的研究手稿，3）开发旨在国际化城市水质和生态学的试点/示范课程模块，（4）开展合作研究活动，从而建立一个致力于地表水和水质研究领域的研究人员和教育工作者的双边社区。

0929551Ramesh GoelThis award supports the U.S.-India Workshop: The Interface of Water Quality Issues and Infectious Diseases, Bengaluru, India, January 4-8, 2010. Professor Ramesh Goel, University of Utah and Dr. Sekhar Muddu, Indian Institute of Science will convene a 5-day workshop focused on developing research and education collaborations to study the environmental and health impacts of excess nutrients in surface waters and cost effective removal processes. Since India has three of the ten most rapidly urbanizing cities in the world, this workshop offers an exceptional opportunity for U.S. and Indian scientists to develop new collaborations in this subject area. Intellectual Merit The PI contends that current understanding of excess nutrients in surface waters and cost effective removal processes consists largely of studies that are based in the Western context, and that there is only preliminary understanding about the removal of excess nutrients from surface waters in countries such as India. Eutrophication is a well known environmental problem but its effects on human health are not well-studied. The goal of this workshop is to examine theoretical, methodological, and educational applications by comparing U.S. and Indian approaches to the study of excess nutrients from surface waters in relation to urban ecosystems and water borne infectious diseases. Broader ImpactsEutrophication, which is a global environmental problem, will be of high interest to most of the workshop participants and is expected to attract broad attention. The workshop organizers anticipate the following outcomes: 1) two to three research proposals studying surface water and treatment systems in rapidly growing urban cities, 2) research manuscripts for submission to global change science peer-reviewed journals, 3) the development of pilot/demonstration curricular modules designed to internationalize urban water quality and ecology related courses in higher education, 4) collaborative research activities that will lead to the establishment of a bilateral community of committed researchers and educators in the field of surface water and water quality research.