2016 Gordon Research Conference on Environmental Sciences: Water: Opportunities for Aquatic Sciences to Impact a Changing World

1601288MacKayFunding被要求支持六月，2016年，戈登环境科学研究会议：在霍洛维茨，NH水。2016年会议的主题是水产科学影响不断变化的世界的机会，并将重点关注水产科学将在经历气候，人口和资源压力的世界中做出的重要贡献。会议将在非正式场合汇集来自多个国家的180名与会者。该计划将由已建立和新兴的研究人员组成，他们正在对环境水生科学的各个方面进行最具创新性和重要性的研究。在2016年，戈登环境科学研究会议：水，将继续其调查优先事项和新兴问题在水环境科学的各个方面的悠久传统。范围将涵盖多个学科（化学，生物学，地质学，工程学，毒理学，人类健康），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）。2016年大会的首要主题认识到，许多挑战与水密切相关。该提案在几个方面推进了NSF更广泛的使命。首先，在会议上提出的工作的主要应用产生了直接的社会效益。人类活动需要足够数量的适当质量的水和保护生态系统健康只是讨论的一个好处。这些问题的解决需要来自多个学科的想法和多个学科之间的互动，以便采取适当的行动和制定环境政策。第二，会议通过为研究生和博士后研究人员提供一个展示他们的研究并充分参与会议活动的平台，在促进教学，培训和学习的同时推进发现。会议还为资深科学家和学生之间的互动提供了一个论坛，并为来自科学和工程领域代表性不足的群体的科学家提供了广泛的参与。会议的形式提供了一个不寻常的和理想的手段，通过来自工业界，政府实验室和学术界的参与者的密切互动传播研究成果。最后，会议促进来自不同背景的广泛参与，既通过演讲者的选择，并通过特殊的戈登研究会议资助机制，目标是代表性不足的群体。将通过对与会者的调查来评估更广泛的影响。

1601288MacKayFunding is requested to support the June, 2016, Gordon Research Conference on Environmental Sciences: Water in Holderness, NH. The 2016 conference theme is Opportunities for Aquatic Sciences to Impact a Changing World and will focus on the critical contributions that aquatic sciences will make in a world experiencing climate, population, and resource pressures. The conference will bring together 180 participants from multiple countries in an informal setting. The program will consist of plenary talks by established and emerging researchers who are conducting the most innovative and significant research on diverse aspects of environmental aquatic science. In 2016, the Gordon Research Conference on Environmental Sciences: Water, will continue its long tradition of surveying priority and emerging issues across all aspects of aquatic environmental science. The scope will span multiple disciplines (chemistry, biology, geology, engineering, toxicology, human health), media (soil, groundwater, surface water, atmospheric water, drinking water, wastewater), and scales (molecular, nano, cellular, ecosystem, global). The overarching theme of the 2016 conference recognizes that many of the challenges are intimately linked to water. This proposal advances NSF's broader mission in several ways. First, there are direct societal benefits that arise from the major application of work to be presented at the conference. The need for sufficient amounts of water of appropriate quality for human activities and protection of ecosystem health will be just one discussed benefit.. Solutions to these problems require ideas from, and interactions among, multiple disciplines to allow proper action and development of environmental policy. Second, the conference advances discovery while promoting teaching, training, and learning by offering a platform for graduate student and postdoctoral researchers to present their research and participate fully in the conference activities. The conference also provides a forum for interactions between senior scientists and students and broad participation of scientists from groups underrepresented in science and engineering. The conference format provides an unusual and ideal means for the dissemination of research results through close interaction of participants from industry, government laboratories, and academia. Finally, the conference promotes broad participation from diverse backgrounds, both through the speaker selection and through special Gordon Research Conference funding mechanisms that target underrepresented groups. Assessment of the broader impacts will be performed via survey of participants at the conference.