Support for the 2018 Gordon Research Conference on Environmental Sciences: Water To held June 24-29, 2018 in Holderness, NH

会议将调查水质领域的国家和国际优先研究。科学将侧重于解决水安全和生态系统健康的紧迫社会挑战。科学进步将包括在分离技术、水处理和用于生产食品、能源和材料资源的系统工程、防止接触危险化学品和补救技术方面的前沿研究。该提案通过促进改善水质的科学进展的交流，促进了美国的国家利益和社会利益。会议将调查环境水研究领域各个方面的优先事项和新出现的问题，重点是挑战和应对这些挑战的新技术的开发。重点将放在分离技术，水处理和食品，能源和材料资源生产的系统工程的发展。其他主题包括气候变化的缓解战略、危险化学品的暴露和补救技术。这些主题将在会议中进行探讨，重点关注以下广泛主题：1）可持续的水和材料，2）化学品暴露和结果，3）水的新技术，4）社区参与的科学和公共政策。这些都与环境工程计划的计划目标有关，以及MPS的环境化学计划，以及INFEWS的NSF倡议等。该提案通过促进科学进步的交流，提高水的可用性和质量，保护生态系统健康，从而直接产生社会效益，从而推进NSF更广泛的使命。解决这些问题需要多学科之间的想法和互动，以便采取适当的行动和制定环境政策。会议将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。对更广泛影响的评估将通过对与会者的调查来进行。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

The conference will survey national and international priority research in the field of water quality. The science will focus on solutions to urgent societal challenges for water safety and ecosystem health. Scientific advances will include cutting edge research in separation technologies, water treatment, and systems engineering for the production of food, energy, and material resources, preventing exposures to hazardous chemicals, and remediation technologies. This proposal advances US national interests and societal benefits by facilitating communication of scientific progress towards improving water quality. The conference will survey priority and emerging issues across all aspects of the field of environmental water research focusing on challenges and the development of new technologies to meet these challenges. A focus will be on developments in separation technologies, water treatment, and systems engineering for the production of food, energy, and material resources. Other topics include mitigation strategies for climate change, exposures to hazardous chemicals, and remediation technologies. These topics will be explored in sessions that focus on the broad themes of: 1) Sustainable water and materials, 2) Chemical exposures and outcomes, 3) New technologies for water, 4) Community-engaged science and public policy. These are relevant to the program objectives of the Environmental Engineering program, as well as Environmental Chemistry program in MPS, and NSF initiatives in INFEWS, among others. This proposal advances the broader mission of NSF through direct societal benefits by facilitating communication of scientific progress towards improving water availability and quality, and protection of ecosystem health. Solutions to the problems require ideas and interactions among multiple disciplines to allow proper action and development of environmental policy. The conference will advance 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. Assessment of the broader impacts will be performed via survey of participants at the conference.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.