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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Statement of Task." National Research Council. 2003. The Environment: Challenges for the Chemical Sciences in the 21st Century. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10803.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Statement of Task." National Research Council. 2003. The Environment: Challenges for the Chemical Sciences in the 21st Century. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10803.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Statement of Task." National Research Council. 2003. The Environment: Challenges for the Chemical Sciences in the 21st Century. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10803.
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A Statement of Task The Workshop on The Environment is one of six workshops held as part of "Challenges for the Chemical Sciences in the 21st Century." The workshop top- ics reflect areas of societal need materials and manufacturing, energy and trans- portation, national security and homeland defense, health and medicine, informa- tion and communications, and environment. The charge for each workshop was to address the four themes of discovery, interfaces, challenges, and infrastructure as they relate to the workshop topic: . Discovery major discoveries or advances in the chemical sciences dur- ing the last several decades · Interfaces interfaces that exist between chemistry-chemical engineer- ing and such areas as biology, environmental science, materials science, medi- cine, and physics · Challenges the grand challenges that exist in the chemical sciences to- day · Infrastructure infrastructure that will be required to allow the potential of future advances in the chemical sciences to be realized 57

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The report assesses the current state of chemistry and chemical engineering at the interface with environmental science, examines its interactions with related areas of science and technology, and identifies challenges and opportunities for research. The report also identifies important contributions that have been made by the chemical sciences toward solving environmental problems, and emphasizes the opportunities for chemists and chemical engineers to make future contributions toward understanding and improving the environment.

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