scholarly journals Land and water resources for environmental research on Oak Ridge Reservation

1977 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.C. Dahlman ◽  
J.T. Kitchings ◽  
J.W. Elwood
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
Oak Ridge

Understanding Children's Perspectives On Water Resources in Interdisciplinary Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola A. Gonzalez ◽  
Rebecca K. Zarger ◽  
C. Ann Vitous ◽  
Christine Prouty
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Children’S Perspectives ◽  
School Settings ◽  
Engineering Sciences ◽  
Local Ecology

Abstract Children's perspectives and knowledge of their local environment are not often incorporated into interdisciplinary applied research projects focused on understanding human relations with water resources. This paper discusses the process of integrating children's perspectives into interdisciplinary research on water resources through the use of a method called “picture voice,” where children create drawings to share their experiences. The paper focuses on research conducted in southern Belize and how this approach can be useful for developing educational activities for school settings to share research results of interdisciplinary environmental research projects. Projects involving children ideally entail a collaborative effort between researchers and educators alike, and we suggest that picture voice is a methodological tool for young people to share their perspectives. We suggest greater attention should be given to children's knowledge by anthropologists and their natural and engineering sciences colleagues to expand curricula in a way that shifts attention to local ecology and children's environmental knowledge and practices. Finally, best practices for bridging anthropology and engineering to share results of projects through educational efforts are presented.

scholarly journals Fifteen years of the Protein Crystallography Station: the coming of age of macromolecular neutron crystallography

IUCrJ ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian C.-H. Chen ◽  
Clifford J. Unkefer
Keyword(s):  
Coming Of Age ◽  
National Laboratory ◽  
Protein Crystallography ◽  
Enzyme Reaction ◽  
Department Of Energy ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
Macromolecular Crystallography ◽  
Oak Ridge ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Neutron Crystallography

The Protein Crystallography Station (PCS), located at the Los Alamos Neutron Scattering Center (LANSCE), was the first macromolecular crystallography beamline to be built at a spallation neutron source. Following testing and commissioning, the PCS user program was funded by the Biology and Environmental Research program of the Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-OBER) for 13 years (2002–2014). The PCS remained the only dedicated macromolecular neutron crystallography station in North America until the construction and commissioning of the MaNDi and IMAGINE instruments at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which started in 2012. The instrument produced a number of research and technical outcomes that have contributed to the field, clearly demonstrating the power of neutron crystallography in helping scientists to understand enzyme reaction mechanisms, hydrogen bonding and visualization of H-atom positions, which are critical to nearly all chemical reactions. During this period, neutron crystallography became a technique that increasingly gained traction, and became more integrated into macromolecular crystallography through software developments led by investigators at the PCS. This review highlights the contributions of the PCS to macromolecular neutron crystallography, and gives an overview of the history of neutron crystallography and the development of macromolecular neutron crystallography from the 1960s to the 1990s and onwards through the 2000s.

scholarly journals Strengthen the European collaborative environmental research to meet European policy goals for achieving a sustainable, non-toxic environment

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Werner Brack ◽  
Selim Ait-Aissa ◽  
Thomas Backhaus ◽  
Sebastian Birk ◽  
Damià Barceló ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Multiple Stressors ◽  
Stakeholder Involvement ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
Success Factor ◽  
European Research ◽  
Multiple Stressor ◽  
Toxic Environment ◽  
Transformation Pathways

Abstract To meet the United Nations (UN) sustainable development goals and the European Union (EU) strategy for a non-toxic environment, water resources and ecosystems management require cost-efficient solutions for prevailing complex contamination and multiple stressor exposures. For the protection of water resources under global change conditions, specific research needs for prediction, monitoring, assessment and abatement of multiple stressors emerge with respect to maintaining human needs, biodiversity, and ecosystem services. Collaborative European research seems an ideal instrument to mobilize the required transdisciplinary scientific support and tackle the large-scale dimension and develop options required for implementation of European policies. Calls for research on minimizing society’s chemical footprints in the water–food–energy–security nexus are required. European research should be complemented with targeted national scientific funding to address specific transformation pathways and support the evaluation, demonstration and implementation of novel approaches on regional scales. The foreseeable pressure developments due to demographic, economic and climate changes require solution-oriented thinking, focusing on the assessment of sustainable abatement options and transformation pathways rather than on status evaluation. Stakeholder involvement is a key success factor in collaborative projects as it allows capturing added value, to address other levels of complexity, and find smarter solutions by synthesizing scientific evidence, integrating governance issues, and addressing transition pathways. This increases the chances of closing the value chain by implementing novel solutions. For the water quality topic, the interacting European collaborative projects SOLUTIONS, MARS and GLOBAQUA and the NORMAN network provide best practice examples for successful applied collaborative research including multi-stakeholder involvement. They provided innovative conceptual, modelling and instrumental options for future monitoring and management of chemical mixtures and multiple stressors in European water resources. Advancement of EU water framework directive-related policies has therefore become an option.

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