Project Grant 1105289

This $250,000 National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs project grant will fund research to improve rice cultivation practices and reduce arsenic uptake in rice crops. The goal is to develop a mechanistic understanding of environmental factors controlling arsenic solubility and speciation in rice paddy soils. A multidisciplinary team from Columbia University, Union College, and San Diego State University will fuse frequent soil geochemistry, mineralogy, microbiology and hydrology...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) provides $449,842 to Arizona State University (ASU) to empower diverse cohorts of undergraduate and graduate students to conduct interdisciplinary, community-based water resources research in the Vilcanota Urubamba Basin in Peru. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: Training and empowering three diverse student cohorts from Rutgers...

This $108,340 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) funds research to investigate how dissolved organic matter impacts the degradation of chlorinated organic contaminants when exposed to sunlight. Principal Investigators (PIs) at Auburn University and Florida Atlantic University will study the photodegradation pathways of 1,2-dichlorobenzene and triclosan in the presence of dissolved organic matter from algae and the...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $169,044 awarded January 1, 2023 through the Engineering (47.041) program will fund research to improve rice cultivation practices and reduce arsenic uptake. A collaborative team from Union College, Columbia University, and San Diego State University will conduct field work in Cambodia and Texas to better understand how climate, irrigation, fertilization and other environmental factors control redox gradients in rice paddy soils. They will...

This $136,638 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) will support the development of mixed microbial communities and membrane biofilm reactors to optimize biotransformation processes for metal and metalloid bioremediation and biorecovery from waste streams. Specifically, the awardee, Montana State University, will establish fungal-bacterial biofilms with relevant environmental microorganisms, develop membrane biofilm reactors to...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) aims to improve the effectiveness of acid mine drainage (AMD) bioremediation by systematically linking microbial communities and iron geochemistry. The overarching goals are to: 1) unravel the factors controlling the rate of iron removal, 2) examine biogeochemical processes in the AMD subsurface that can undermine bioremediation, and 3) evaluate the feasibility of seeding microbial communities to...

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 $401,056 National Science Foundation project grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research examining the effects of terrestrial organic matter inputs on coastal mercury cycling, methylmercury production and bioaccumulation in the Gulf of Maine. Specifically, the grantee will study how climate change-driven increases in rainfall and river runoff influence the delivery of contaminants, organic matter and nutrients from land to coastal waters. Field surveys and shipboard...

This $549,999 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (CFDA 47.049) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports a research project led by Professors Leanne Powers, Nicholas Pflug, and Theodore Dibble at the State University of New York - College of Environmental Science and Forestry. The project aims to gain a mechanistic understanding of how dissolved organic matter (DOM) composition affects the production of reactive intermediates (RI) through photochemical...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering provides $133,944 to support the Colorado School of Mines' IRES TRACK I project from July 2021 through June 2024. The project aims to rapidly characterize mine waste through integrated geotechnical and geochemical assessments to enable phytoremediation and biofuel/bioenergy production applications. The funding supports the Colorado School of Mines' research under the NSF Office of...