2012 Environmental Sciences: Water GRC, Plymouth, NH, June 24-29, 2012

该项目支持将于2012年6月24-29日举行的戈登环境科学研究会议：水。这次会议将在非正式的情况下召集150名与会者，由老牌和新兴的研究人员进行全体演讲，他们正在环境水生科学的不同方面进行最具创新性和最有意义的研究。范围将涵盖多个学科(化学、生物学、地质学、工程学、健康科学)、介质(土壤、地下水、地表水、大气水、饮用水、废水)和尺度(分子、纳米、细胞、生态系统、全球)。今年，统一的主题将是构成水环境科学基础和前沿的科学“重大挑战”。这些重大挑战包括与自由基反应、天然有机物、纳米粒子、生物转化、反应运输和表面化学有关的主题，将提供每一次会议的一般主题。总体而言，该计划将通过代表每个重大挑战问题的深度和广度的会议，突出这些重大挑战的交叉意义，演讲者将从事对环境水生科学不同方面的创新和重大研究。会议为研究生和博士后研究人员提供了一个展示他们的研究成果并充分参与会议活动的平台。会议通过发言者的选择和针对代表性不足群体的特别GRC资助机制，促进来自不同背景的广泛参与。

CBET-1222515 TratnyekThis project supports the Gordon Research Conference on Environmental Sciences:Water to be held June 24-29, 2012. The conference will bring together 150 participants in an informal setting, for a program of plenary talks by established and emerging researchers who are doing the most innovative and significant research on diverse aspects of environmental aquatic science. The scope will span multiple disciplines (chemistry, biology, geology, engineering, health science), media (soil, groundwater, surface water, atmospheric water, drinking water, wastewater), and scales (molecular, nano, cellular, ecosystem, global). This year, the unifying theme will be the scientific "grand challenges" that form the foundations and, at the same time, the frontiers of aquatic environmental science. These grand challenges, which include topics related to free radical reactions, natural organic matter, nanoparticles, biotransformation, reactive transport and surface chemistry, will provide the general themes for each session. Overall, the program will highlight the crosscutting significance of these grand challenges through sessions that represent the depth and breadth of each grand challenge issue with speakers engaged in innovative and significant research on diverse aspects to environmental aquatic science. The conference offers a platform for graduate student and postdoctoral researchers to present their research and participate fully in the conference activities. The conference promotes broad participation from a diverse background, both through the speaker selection and through special GRC funding mechanisms that target underrepresented groups.