Project Grant 80NSSC25K7402

This Project Grant from the U.S. Geological Survey, under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes federal grant program (CFDA 15.805), provides $516,810 to the University of California Office of the President Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources to study the fate, transport and transformation of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in horizontal levees from July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2026. The researchers will monitor a suite of PFAS in an experimental...

This Project Grant from the US Geological Survey, under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes program (CFDA 15.805), provides $469,361 to The Ohio State University Office of Sponsored Programs from January 2023 to January 2026. The funding will support field observations and numerical simulations to enhance understanding of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) deposition impacts on hydrologic systems in Ohio. Researchers will deploy air and plant samplers near...

This Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $620,000.00, was provided by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes program (CFDA 15.805). The purpose of the project is to investigate how daily environmental fluctuations, or "diel cycling", impact the fate of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) precursors in a unique, diatom-dominated constructed wetland. The interdisciplinary research approach combines field...

This $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports research at Tennessee State University (TSU) on the fate and transport of two emerging per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), F-53B and GenX, in soil. The key objectives are to: 1) examine the sorption-desorption and degradation mechanisms of F-53B and GenX in soils; 2) investigate the transport and accumulation of these PFAS in the vadose zone under the...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $199,999 RAPID Project Grant to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville to monitor the microbial attenuation of toxins released following the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment in February 2023. The project aims to test the hypothesis that microbial communities in contaminated areas will show measurable responses that could inform contaminant degradation and natural...

The University of Arizona was awarded a $155,247 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will support collaborative research to conduct in situ laboratory imaging and modeling of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) transport and fate in variably saturated heterogeneous porous media from July 15, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The research aims...

This $399,786 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 4 Geographic Programs - South Florida Geographic Initiatives Program (CFDA 66.484) supports Florida State University (FSU) in developing a model experiment framework to advance understanding of reactive transport of agricultural fertilizers and pesticides in rural areas of South Florida. The key activities include conducting dye tracing experiments to identify flow paths, designing field and laboratory...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $228,753 to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) to conduct collaborative research on the identification and characterization of petrogenic compounds that persist in aquatic environments following crude oil and petroleum spills. The key objectives of this 3-year project are to: i) determine the chemical variability of oxygen-containing organic compounds (OCOCs) formed from different...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences provides $397,197 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for collaborative research titled "In Situ Laboratory Imaging and Modeling of PFAS Transport and Fate in Variably Saturated Heterogeneous Porous Media." The research will be conducted from July 2021 through June 2024 under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research in the atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences to...

This $499,988 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) seeks to develop and validate an integrated sorption-photocatalytic process for the ex-situ treatment and remediation of groundwater contaminated by mixtures of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and chlorinated solvents like trichloroethylene (TCE) and tetrachloroethylene (PCE). The principal investigator and research team at Southern Illinois University Carbondale will...