Hydrology — Federal Grants

Drivers of soil carbon persistence in dryland floodplains: Constraining the feedbacks among hydrology, mineral stabilization, and respiration

Marisa Repasch · University of New Mexico

CAREER: Reconciling the Turkana Basin's timeline utilizing luminescence geochronology to reduce sedimentary gaps from the last million years

Marine Frouin · SUNY at Stony Brook

LTREB Renewal: Baltimore Urban Watershed Studies

Peter Groffman · Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Inc.

Quantum-Inspired Amplitude-Phase Frameworks for Uncertainty-Centric Groundwater Flow and Transport Modeling

Nicholas Engdahl · Washington State University

STAR: Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning to Study Global Rivers and Nitrous Oxide

Taylor Maavara · Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Inc.

EAGER: Exploring Quantum-Ready Geoscience Community Benchmark Problems in Atmospheric, Hydrologic, and Earth-System Sciences

Dev Niyogi · University of Texas at Austin

Collaborative Research: AI-Enabled Decision Support for Rate Setting and Infrastructure Investment in Decentralized Water Utilities under Drought

Eric Edwards · University of California-Davis

Collaborative Research: AI-Enabled Decision Support for Rate Setting and Infrastructure Investment in Decentralized Water Utilities under Drought

Marta Zaniolo · Duke University

Collaborative Research: AI-Enabled Decision Support for Rate Setting and Infrastructure Investment in Decentralized Water Utilities under Drought

Mehdi Nemati · University of California-Riverside

EAGER: Beyond Scaling: Scientific Discovery as a Driver of Next-Generation AI

Vipin Kumar · University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Collaborative Research: AI-Enabled Decision Support for Rate Setting and Infrastructure Investment in Decentralized Water Utilities under Drought

Benjamin Rachunok · North Carolina State University

Mapping the Antarctic Basal Ice Unit Using Ice-Penetrating Radar Data Archives

Shuai Yan · University of Washington

FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

THE APPLIED RESEARCH CENTER (ARC) AT FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY (FIU) SHALL PROVIDE TECHNICAL SUPPORT TO DOE EM IN THE AREA OF ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. FIU-ARC’S RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT, DEMONSTRATION AND TESTING OVER THE NEXT 5 YEARS WILL BE IN THE 4 MAJOR AREAS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANUP OPERATIONS: RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING, SOIL & GROUNDWATER REMEDIATION, FACILITY DECONTAMINATION AND DECOMMISSIONING AND TAILORED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT. PROJECT 1: CHEMICAL PROCESS ALTERNATIVES FOR RADIOACTIVE WASTE. PROJECT 1'S SPECIFIC TASKS INCLUDE: ADVANCED TOPICS FOR HLW MIXING AND PROCESSING; TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND INSTRUMENTATION EVALUATION; PIPELINE INTEGRITY AND ANALYSIS; AND CORROSION PROTECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF EM INFRASTRUCTURE. PROJECT 2: ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY. PROJECT 2'S SPECIFIC TASKS INCLUDE: REMEDIATION RESEARCH AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR THE HANFORD SITE; REMEDIATION RESEARCH AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR SAVANNAH RIVER SITE; CONTAMINANT FATE AND TRANSPORT MODELING FOR THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITE; REMEDIATION RESEARCH AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR WIP; HYDROLOGY MODELING FOR THE WASTE ISOLATION PILOT PLANT (WIPP); AND ENGINEERED MULTI-LAYER AMENDMENT TECHNOLOGY FOR HG REMEDIATION ON OAK RIDGE RESERVATION. PROJECT 3: WASTE AND D&D ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT 3'S SPECIFIC TASKS INCLUDE: WASTE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (WIMS); D&D SUPPORT TO DOE EM FOR TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION, DEVELOPMENT, EVALUATION, AND DEPLOYMENT; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT INFORMATION TOOL; AI & BIG DATA ANALYTICS: STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING FOR D&D; AND AI FOR EM PROBLEM SET – SOIL AND GROUNDWATER. PROJECT 4: DOE-FIU SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. PROJECT 5: DOE-FIU SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR THE OFFICE OF LEGACY MANAGEMENT.