Collaborative Research: Converging COVID-19, environment, health, and equity

环境工程和科学是一个高度多样化的领域，它利用物理、化学和生物学知识来帮助保护人类和生态健康。许多环境工程师和科学家正在新冠肺炎上进行研究，以更好地了解如何控制疾病的传播，以及提供安全的食品和饮用水。该项目的目标是在六周内举行一系列虚拟会议，将研究人员聚集在一起，以综合的方式讨论他们在新冠肺炎方面的工作。他们还将探讨不平等如何影响他们工作的结果和影响。这项工作给社会带来的好处来自开源学习材料，这些材料展示了在大流行病期间不同环境是如何相互联系的，以及如何解决社会中的不平等问题，以便为可持续社区提出更好的解决方案。这次会议将以环境工程和科学研究人员的不同代表为特色。为了最大限度地发挥影响，会议将向世界上任何人开放，所有录音将在网站和社交媒体上共享。该项目的目标是主办一系列会议，聚集来自环境工程、科学及相关领域的研究人员，分享知识，讨论与新冠肺炎有关的跨学科和跨学科联系，以及建设更健康、公正和公平社会的必要性。拟议会议的主题将使“新冠肺炎”与美国国家科学院工程、工程和医学研究院(NASEM)研究中概述的“21世纪环境工程的重大挑战”保持一致，这些研究包括：(1)可持续地供应食品、能源和水，(2)创建高效、健康和有弹性的城市，(3)设计一个无污染和废物的未来，(4)减缓和适应气候变化，以及(5)促进知情的决定和行动。会议提出了一种新的参与模式，即异步和同步相结合的多媒体在线学习环境。演讲者的选择将反映国家的多样性，特别是努力招募目前在STEM任职人数不足的演讲者。早期职业博士后研究人员和助理教授将担任讲演者和会议主席，以促进职业发展。将鼓励与会者注册参加会议的证书部分，这需要成功完成与每节课有关的六个测验。一份以会议为基础的手稿将提交给《环境工程与科学》杂志，以分享虚拟会议形式的最佳实践，以及通过COVID-19实现环境工程和科学的融合。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Environmental engineering and science is a highly diverse field that uses knowledge of physics, chemistry, and biology to help protect human and ecological health. Many environmental engineers and scientists are doing research on COVID-19 to better understand of how to control the spread of the disease, as well as providing safe food and drinking water. The goal of this project is to hold a series of virtual meetings over six weeks bringing together researchers to discuss their work on COVID-19 in an integrated manner. They will also explore how inequities influence the outcomes and impact of their work. Benefits to society resulting from this work result from open source learning materials that show how different environments link to each other during the pandemic, and how to address inequities in society to come up with better solutions for sustainable communities. This meeting will feature a diverse representation of environmental engineering and science researchers. To maximize impact, the meeting will be open to anyone in the world, and all recordings will be shared on websites and over social media.The goal of this project is to host a series of meetings bringing together researchers from environmental engineering and science and related fields to share knowledge and discuss interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary linkages as they relate to COVID-19 and the need for developing more healthy, just, and equitable societies. The themes for the proposed sessions will align COVID-19 and the Grand Challenges for Environmental Engineering in the 21st Century as outlined in the National Academies of Sciences Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) study which include: (1) sustainably supplying food, energy, and water, (2) creating efficient, healthy, and resilient cities, (3) designing a future without pollution and waste, (4) climate change mitigation and adaptation, and (5) fostering informed decisions and actions. The meeting presents a new model of participation in a combined asynchronous and synchronous multimedia online learning environment. Presenters will be selected to reflect the diversity of the Nation, with particular effort made to recruit presenters who are currently underrepresented in STEM. Early career post-doctoral researchers and assistant professors will be presenters and session chairs to foster career development. Participants will be encouraged to register for the certificate portion of the meeting which requires the successful completion of six quizzes related to each session. A manuscript based on the meeting will be submitted to the journal of Environmental Engineering and Science to share best practices for virtual format for meetings and the convergence of environmental engineering and science through COVID-19.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.