Research Grants

  1. Public health impacts of gasoline vapor releases from gas stations: developing regional standards, recommendations and informing environmental policies on vapor recovery.
    Sponsor: Energy, Environment, Sustainability and Health Institute.
    Role: PI (Co-PI's: Ana Rule, Keeve Nachman, Jian Ni).
    Amount: $25,000.

  2. Collaborative research: Near-surface repulsion and mixing- limitations: upscaling of colloid retention, breakthrough, and elution in non-uniform media under unfavorable conditions.
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation.
    Role: PI (Other PIs: William P. Johnson, University of Utah; Timothy Ginn, UC Davis)
    Period: 8/15/2012-7/14/2016.
    Amount: $164,965 out of $574,862.

  3. Chronic hydrocarbon spills: linking the soil microbiome to biodegradation.
    Sponsor: Pilot Project Funding in Microbiome Research in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences.
    Role: PI (Co-PIs: Ellen Silbergeld, Yaqi You, Patrick Breysse).
    Amount: $5,000.

  4. Automated pollution source identification using robotic underwater vehicles.
    Sponsor: Water Institute at Johns Hopkins.
    Role: Co-Investigator (PI: Marin Kobilarov, other Co-Investigator: Grace Brush).
    Amount: $50,000.

  5. Collaborative Research: Investigation of chemotaxis in porous media - Visualization experiments and modeling.
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation.
    Role: Co-PI (PI: Mira Stone-Olson, Drexel University).
    Amount: $202,399 out of $457,337.

  6. Mobilization of residual NAPL by seismic waves.
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation (3/1/2008-2/28/2011).
    Role: PI.
    Amount: $215,298.

  7. Transport of tetracycline (Tc) and Tc resistance genes in poultry farm soils and aquifer materials: influence on bacterial Tc resistance
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation (9/1/2007-8/31/2010)
    Role: PI (Co-PI: Mandy Ward)
    Amount: $300,000

  8. Theoretical model to predict liquid contamination distribution in soils
    Sponsor: US Army (5/22/2007-12/31/2008)
    Role: PI
    Amount: $24,900

  9. Theoretical model to predict liquid contamination distribution in soils
    Sponsor: US Army (5/23/2006-5/22/2007)
    Role: PI
    Amount: $30,000

  10. CMG Research: a graph based approach for generating pore networks to represent the uncertainty of the subsurface's pore structure
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation (9/15/2003-8/31/2007)
    Role: PI
    Amount: $331,037

  11. Tetracycline transport through poultry farm soils and aquifer materials: influence on bacterial tetracycline resistance
    Sponsor: Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins University
    Role: PI (Co-PI's: William P. Ball and Mandy Ward)
    Amount: $20,000

  12. Pore-scale modeling of elastic wave propagation in porous media saturated by two immiscible fluids
    Sponsor: Petroleum Research Fund (9/1/2002-8/31/2006)
    Role: PI
    Amount: $35,000

  13. Collaborative research: measurement and modeling of pore-scale flows
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation (January 2003-December 2005)
    Role: PI (Second PI: Clint Willson, Louisiana State University)
    Amount: $92,536

  14. Supercomputing support for the investigation of ``Pore-scale simulation of microbial decay in the subsurface''
    Sponsor: National Center of Supercomputing Applications (8/30/2004-8/31/2005)
    Role: PI
    Amount: 5,000 hours CPU time on a Xeon Linux Cluster

  15. Supercomputing support for modeling multiphase flow and transport in porous medium systems
    Sponsor: North Carolina Supercomputer Center (11/01-10/02)
    Role: Co-PI (PI: Cass T. Miller)
    Amount: 377,000 hours IBM-SP time, and 7,400 hours of SGI Origin 2000 time

  16. Modeling of multiphase flow in porous media
    Sponsor: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Research Council (12/00-11/02)
    Role: PI.
    Amount: $1,700

  17. Modeling multiscale, multiphase porous medium systems
    Sponsor: North Carolina Supercomputer Center (11/00-10/01)
    Role: Co-PI (PI: Cass T. Miller)
    Amount: 240,000 hours IBM SP time, 9,000 hours of SGI Origin 2000 time, and 1225 hours of Cray T916 time

  18. Supercomputing support for investigations of multiphase flow and transport phenomena in porous medium systems
    Sponsor: North Carolina Supercomputer Center (11/99-10/00)
    Role: Co-PI (PI: Cass T. Miller)
    Amount: 60,000 hours IBM-SP time, and 10,000 hours of SGI Origin 2000 time