Project Grant 2506115
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $247,686 Project Grant to the University of Nevada, Reno under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) from February 1, 2023 to January 31, 2025. The grant will fund research to understand how wildfire severity affects the formation of disinfection byproducts at downstream drinking water treatment plants. Specifically, the principal investigator and a graduate student will characterize organic matter from a past wildfire using new analytical...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $383,716 Project Grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado to improve understanding and predictive modeling of soot formation in wildfires. The 3-year project under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will utilize advanced experimental techniques to investigate the chemical precursors and growth mechanisms for soot particles emitted from the pyrolysis and...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support the "FIRE-NET: Wildfire Airborne Particles and Their Influence on Lake Ecosystems" initiative. The $187,699 grant, awarded to the Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education (operating through the University of Nevada, Reno), aims to enhance understanding of how wildfire-generated airborne particles, ranging from fine smoke to larger ash and firebrands,...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $599,872 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050). The grant supports research to advance understanding of wildfire impacts on stratospheric chemistry through several linked components. MIT will study the chemical impacts of increased hydrogen bromide solubility in organic aerosols from wildfires and ozone production in stratospheric air from wildfire emissions. Researchers...
- This $420,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) was made to the University of South Carolina (USC) to conduct research on the impact of moderate and high severity forest fires on metals transformations and the formation of disinfection by-products. The goal of this 3-year research project, running from January 2025 to December 2027, is to characterize the organic and inorganic materials present in forests during wildfires and...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $386,199 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to develop a novel in-situ high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) approach to detect short-lived degradation intermediates generated from the thermal or electrochemical degradation of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The project, led by Professor Hao Chen, aims to better understand PFAS degradation...
- This $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) will support field research to collect, archive, and characterize residual ash, transported ash, and particulate matter from the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires. The research aims to quantify the concentration and speciation of toxic elements in airborne particulate matter collected during and following the fires. Key...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry federal Project Grant award for $600,000 will support a 3-year research project led by researchers at the University of California, Riverside. The project, titled "Mechanistic Understanding of Biodechlorination-Facilitated Defluorination of Polychlorofluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)," aims to study the molecular mechanisms underlying the dechlorination and defluorination of PFAS, which are a class of "forever...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $199,840 Project Grant to the Desert Research Institute to acquire a single particle soot photometer system optimized to quantify black carbon and iron oxide aerosols. The grant is funded through the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) and aims to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Under the three-year award period from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024, the...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $180,000 to conduct research on wildfire-generated nanoparticles and their impact on human health and the environment. The research aims to: 1) determine how temperature, composition of combustible materials, and soil composition influence the metal chemistry of fine particulate matter; 2) identify the mineralogy, metal associations, and morphology of these particles; and 3) examine how...
The U.S. National Science Foundation, through its Environmental Chemical Sciences (ECS) program within the Division of Chemistry, awarded a $598,653 Project Grant to the Nevada System of Higher Education's Desert Research Institute. The grant, titled "Chemistry of Post-Fire Soil Water Repellency," will fund a study led by Professor Vera Samburova that aims to investigate the organic compounds contributing to the formation of water-repellent soil layers after wildfires. The research will involve controlled laboratory experiments and analysis of soil samples collected from recent wildfires in the Western United States. The goal is to improve understanding of the chemistry of post-fire soils, support better post-fire soil assessments, and help mitigate the hydrological consequences of soil water repellency, such as increased risk of flooding and landslides. This project, which will run from September 1, 2025, to August 31, 2028, will also provide training opportunities for graduate students in environmental chemical sciences.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $598.7k | 8/25/25 |