This $399,836 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to examine the sources and spatial distribution of microplastics in rivers. The project at Texas A&M University will characterize the extent of microplastic pollution in different watersheds and analyze how human activities and land use patterns impact the geographical distribution of these particles. The research...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $349,011 Project Grant to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station to support the collaborative research project "ERASE-PFAS: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DEVELOPMENT OF QUANTITATIVE TOOLS TO ASSESS THE MECHANISMS AND FULL POTENTIAL OF UV-ARPS FOR THE TREATMENT OF PFASS IN WATER" under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) federal grant program. The three-year project...
This $1,600,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Research Program (CFDA 66.509) will fund a research project at Texas Tech University System to evaluate the bioavailability, transport, and sources of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in agricultural environments. The key activities include: Characterizing PFAS partitioning in plant cultivation and comparing it to soil type and residual treatment; Evaluating PFAS uptake...
This $1,499,979 federal Project Grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Research Program (CFDA 66.509) will develop and validate a nanosensing technology integrated with a nano-remediation platform to monitor and degrade per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in water. The key products and services to be delivered include: Validating the nanosensing technology using standard methods for measuring PFAS. Integrating the nano-catalytic...
This $1,600,000 federal Project Grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Research Program (CFDA 66.509) supports a comprehensive research project to address per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination. The key objectives are to: (1) develop integrated PFAS remediation methods for biosolids, (2) create technologies to prevent PFAS uptake by plants in biosolids-amended soils, (3) design and develop plant-based biosensors for...
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...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $275,000 in funding to Myconaut LLC to develop a scalable biological remediation method that uses synergistic interactions between fungi and plants to degrade and remove per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from contaminated environments. The project aims to expand the understanding of fungal degradation of PFAS, evaluate the...
This $199,999 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research to elucidate the performance and mechanisms of nanofiltration (NF) for removing short-chain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from contaminated water. The research aims to evaluate NF removal of diverse (ultra)short-chain PFAS, establish structure-property-performance relationships using machine learning, and investigate PFAS interactions with NF...
This $558,203 federal Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes program (CFDA 15.805) supports research at Purdue University to study the bioaccumulation and biotransformation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in aquatic environments. Key project activities include: Integrating microfluidic sensors for rapid PFAS detection, field sampling of biofilms and macroinvertebrates, identifying factors influencing...
This federal Project Grant award, funded by the U.S. Geological Survey's Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes program (CFDA 15.805), aims to investigate the fate of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) precursors in a unique, diatom-dominated constructed wetland. The $620,000 grant, awarded on January 1, 2025, with a completion date of December 31, 2027, supports an interdisciplinary approach combining field studies, laboratory experiments, quantum chemical computations,...