Environmental Engineering — U.S. National Science Foundation funding opportunity
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Environmental Engineering

In broadest terms, the field of Environmental Engineering is concerned with understanding the impacts of human activities on the public health, natural environmental quality, and natural resources and with developing the...

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Award $300k Deadline Fixed Location Alabama Type grant Level Federal Open posted Dec 3, 2010
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  • Who can apply: Federal-level applicants (see eligibility for details).
  • Funding amount: starting at $300,000.
  • Issued by: U.S. National Science Foundation.
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Award amount
$300k
Deadline
Fixed
Total pool
$9.4M

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In broadest terms, the field of Environmental Engineering is concerned with understanding the impacts of human activities on the public health, natural environmental quality, and natural resources and with developing the scientific basis for managing environmental problems caused by human activities. The field emerged as a separate engineering discipline during the middle third of the 20th century in response to widespread public concern about water and air pollution and increasingly extensive environmental quality degradation. However, its roots extend back to early efforts in public health engineering in the late 19th century, and to ancient times with regard to urban drinking water systems. The Environmental Engineering program supports fundamental research and educational activities across the broad field it serves. The goal of this program is to encourage transformative research which applies scientific principles to minimize gaseous discharges into land, inland and coastal waters, and air that result from human activity, and to evaluate adverse impacts of these discharges on human health and environmental quality. The program fosters cutting-edge scientific research based on fundamental science for developing new methods and technologies for assessing the waste assimilative capacity of the natural environment and for removing or reducing conventional and emerging contaminants from polluted air, water and soils. The program is based on four types of engineering tools - - design.Along with its related environmental programs (Energy for Sustainability, Environmental Health and Safety of Nanotechnology, and Environmental Sustainability), the program fosters environmental sustainability through pollution control and resource management/conservation, and development of techniques to minimize or avoid generating pollution. Research may be directed toward improving the cost-effectiveness of pollution avoidance, as well as developing new principles for pollution avoidance technologies. Research for new and improved sensors of environmental conditions and innovative waste reduction and recycling processes also are important components of this program.Major areas of interest and activity in the program include:Water and Wastewater Treatment. (Paul Bishop) Develop innovative biological, chemical and physical treatment processes to remove and degrade contaminants from water; produce potable water; convert wastewaters into renovated water suitable for reuse; investigate the use of nanotechnologies in water and wastewater treatment.Emerging Contaminants. (Paul Bishop) Investigate the fate, transport and remediation of potentially harmful emerging contaminants such as pharmaceuticals, endocrine disrupting compounds, and fire retardants. (Please note that research concerning the environmental health and safety of nanomaterials should be submitted to the Environmental Health and Safety of Nanotechnology program.) Water Resources Management. (Geoffrey Prentice) Investigate engineering aspects of urban and storm water management; design and operation of artificial wetlands; biogeochemical and transport processes driving water quality in the aquatic environment.Soil Remediation and Landfills. (Geoffrey Prentice) Focus on remediation techniques for contaminated soils, fate and transport of contaminants in soils, and effective solid waste management in landfills.Air Quality. (Paul Bishop) Develop innovative processes to remove or destroy contaminants from air, including atmospheric, air emissions and indoor air; and measure, model and predict the movement and fate of pollutants in air.Proposals should address the novelty of the concept being proposed, compared to previous work in the field. Also, it is important to address why the novelty might be important in terms of engineering science, as well as to also project the potential impact on society and /or industry of success in the research.

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U.S. National Science Foundation
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PostedDec 3, 2010

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