This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $314,604 awarded on August 1, 2022 will support research at Arizona State University to develop an integrated computational framework for decision support models of Legionella control in building plumbing systems. The three-year award made under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund collaborative research between ASU, the New York State Department of Health, and The College of New Jersey. The project aims to advance fundamental...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems has awarded a $420,000 Project Grant to the University of Pittsburgh to investigate the link between consumer showerhead choices and exposure to drinking water-associated opportunistic pathogens. The 3-year project, titled "INVESTIGATING HOME WATER AND AEROSOLS' LINKS TO OPPORTUNISTIC PATHOGEN EXPOSURE (INHALE): DO CONSUMER DECISIONS IMPACT PATHOGEN EXPOSURE AND VIRULENCE?",...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $263,392 awarded on October 1, 2021 will fund the development of a spatial-temporal predictive framework for the drinking water microbiome through June 30, 2023. Under the NSF Engineering Directorate's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the awardee Georgia Tech Research Corporation will establish a long-term observatory to monitor microbiome dynamics in Boston's water distribution system. They will develop novel econometric and ecological...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) has awarded a $482,351 Project Grant to the University of Pittsburgh to conduct research on the impacts of drinking water treatment and distribution processes on the survival and pathogenesis of water-associated pathogens, such as nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM). The project aims to investigate how different drinking water treatment train configurations and associated chemical oxidant stressors influence the functional...
The National Science Foundation Division of Emerging Frontiers awarded a $1,400,000 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York, also known as Sponsored Projects Services, a non-profit research administration organization. This 5-year grant will fund collaborative research to investigate the role of environmental factors like temperature, heavy metals, and other contaminants in the development of...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 5-year, $477,883 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst. The goal of this CAREER award is to test the hypothesis that local water storage can be designed to preserve or improve water quality following contamination events while achieving resiliency through interruptions to water supplies. The key objectives are to: 1) quantify the effects of contamination on the accumulation,...
This $216,478 National Science Foundation project grant through the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) will fund research at New Mexico State University in collaboration with the United States Environmental Protection Agency to investigate the pathogenicity of bacteria surviving water disinfection processes. The two-year project beginning February 1, 2023 will explore the impact of chlorine water treatment on bacterial pathogens using advanced cellular assays and metatranscriptomics....
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $949,997 Project Grant to Iowa State University of Science and Technology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to investigate the role of environmental factors in the development of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in municipal wastewater treatment plants. The five-year research project, starting November 1, 2023, will conduct field, laboratory, and computational studies to determine how susceptible bacterial strains are replaced by...
This $550,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology to develop data-driven solutions for prioritizing and mitigating harmful disinfection byproducts (DBPs) in drinking water. The project will leverage machine learning to (1) create a comprehensive database of regulated and unregulated DBPs, (2) prioritize high-risk DBPs based on occurrence, levels, and...
This $549,999 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) will fund research at George Washington University to elucidate the impact of bacterial association on the infectivity, environmental persistence, and disinfection resistance of enteric viruses. The project aims to investigate the occurrence, abundance, and removal of emerging bacteria-associated viruses in...