Center of Excellence in 健康y Water Solutions Holds First Meeting in Syracuse
The Center of Excellence in 健康y Water Solutions – a joint public/private institution endeavor between esball国际平台客户端 and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) – held its first annual meeting, A Conversation on Advances in Water Science and 技术, 3月12日和13日, 2023 in Syracuse on the SUNY ESF campus.
The conference brought together more than 150 attendees from academic institutions, government and municipal agencies, lake associations and other citizen groups, engineering consulting firms, and water-related industries. The conference centered around five different panel discussion sessions involving the topics of innovation and collaboration, building climate resiliency among small communities, treatment and monitoring of forever-chemicals such as PFAS, detection and mitigation of harmful algal blooms, and water resources needs of semiconductor chip fabrication facilities.
Besides the panel discussions, graduate students and faculty from Clarkson and SUNY ESF presented more than 30 posters on recent water-related 研究 during a lunchtime session.
The conference offered an opportunity for the Center to achieve one of its primary missions: building new collaborative relationships between academia, 私营部门, 和政府.
“The conference has been an opportunity for academics to better understand 研究 needs from the perspective of industry, 公民科学家, and regulatory agencies,斯蒂芬·肖说, Co-Director of the Center of Excellence in 健康y Water Solutions and Associate Professor at SUNY ESF. “The 中心 of Excellence play an important role in making sure 研究 is impactful to communities in New York.”
“Building on the 研究 strengths of faculty at Clarkson and SUNY ESF, these new collaborations with funding from the Center and its partners will lead to innovative technologies or strategies to improve NY State’s water resources” added Stefan Grimberg, Co-Director of the Center of Excellence in 健康y Water Solutions and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Clarkson.
A long history of water 研究 at esball国际平台客户端 and SUNY ESF led to the formation of this New York State funded Center of Excellence (CoE) in 2019. Additional information on the Center of Excellence in 健康y Water Solutions can be found at healthywaters.org.
NYS 中心 of Excellence are funded by the New York State Department of Economic Development’s Division of Science, 技术, and Innovation (NYSTAR) to foster collaboration between the academic 研究 community and the 业务 sector to develop and commercialize new products and technologies, to promote critical private sector investment in emerging high-technology fields in New York State, and to create and expand technology-related 业务es and employment. 任何意见, 发现, conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the New York State Department of Economic Development.
