This $649,956 Project Grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 4's Geographic Programs - South Florida Geographic Initiatives Program (CFDA 66.484) will support Florida International University's research to understand the vulnerability of seagrass meadows in Biscayne Bay to the combined effects of pharmaceutical and nutrient pollution. The key activities include sampling seagrasses, epifauna, and water to evaluate correlations and distance effects between pharmaceutical...
This $649,817 project grant, awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Geographic Programs - South Florida Geographic Initiatives Program (CFDA 66.484), will fund a study by Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) to address the impacts of climate change on groundwater resources and promote resilience in South Florida. The key activities under this 3-year award include: quantifying the impacts of climate change and groundwater management strategies on water resources;...
This $292,530 project grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 4 supports Florida International University's efforts under the EPA's South Florida Geographic Initiatives Program. The university will conduct comprehensive monitoring of pharmaceuticals across broader spatial and temporal scales and in multiple ecosystem compartments, including biota of socio-ecological importance. This work expands existing surface water monitoring to examine internal concentrations in...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 4 awarded the University of Florida $718,266 under the Geographic Programs - South Florida Geographic Initiatives Program (CFDA 66.484) from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2026. The funding will support the Assess Future Flood Vulnerability and Natural Habitat for Reducing Flood Loss in South West Florida project. Key deliverables include quantifying compound coastal flooding in the Coastal and Heartland National Estuary Program and Sarasota Bay regions;...
This $388,362 Project Grant awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 4 under the Geographic Programs - South Florida Geographic Initiatives Program (CFDA 66.484) will fund the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) to characterize nutrient and microbial water quality in the nearshore "halo zone" of the Florida Keys and its connections to the broader regional water quality of the reef tract. Key activities include...
This $548,219 project grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 4 supports refining a habitat suitability index model and co-restoration of hard clams and seagrass in estuaries near Florida Gulf Coast University. Awarded on May 1, 2023 under the EPA's South Florida Geographic Programs, the grant will fund Florida Gulf Coast University and subrecipient Sanibel Captive Conservation Foundation to perform the following through April 30, 2026: surveys of juvenile and adult hard...
This $1,600,000 federal Project Grant award, administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Research Program (CFDA 66.509), aims to test the hypothesis that proper engineering controls will allow continued and beneficial use of biosolids on agricultural soil, producing PFAS-free agricultural products. The key activities include: (1) modeling PFAS solid-water coefficients and soil properties with/without powdered activated carbon, (2) developing...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 4, through the Geographic Programs - South Florida Geographic Initiatives Program (CFDA 66.484), awarded $400,000 to the University of Central Florida (UCF) on June 1, 2024. The purpose of this 4-year project grant is to develop and apply an innovative rapid screening tool and predictive model for monitoring microcystin levels in Lake Okeechobee, the Okeechobee Waterway, and the Caloosahatchee River and estuaries. Key deliverables include...
The Environmental Protection Agency Region 4 awarded $353,798 under the Surveys, Studies, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Training Grants and Cooperative Agreements - Section 104(b)(3) of the Clean Water Act program to the Georgia Southern University Research & Service Foundation Inc. The project grant will support the South Florida Geographic Initiatives Program to examine the relationship between submarine groundwater discharge and seagrasses at multiple locations within Florida Bay....
This $488,243 federal Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 4 under the Geographic Programs - South Florida Geographic Initiatives Program (CFDA 66.484) supports Florida International University's (FIU) research to delineate pollution sources entering Lake Worth Lagoon via the C-51 canal and assess the efficacy of recent stormwater infrastructure upgrades. The project aims to provide critical information to support long-term stormwater pollutant reduction...