Funding-NSF- Environmental Sustainability; October 20, 2015

Agency

National Science Foundation

Description

The goal of the Environmental Engineering program is to encourage transformative research which applies scientific and engineering principles to avoid or minimize solid, liquid, and gaseous discharges, resulting from human activities on land, inland and coastal waters, and air, while promoting resource and energy conservation and recovery.  The program also fosters cutting-edge scientific research for identifying, evaluating, and monitoring the waste assimilative capacity of the natural environment and for removing or reducing contaminants from polluted air, water, and soils. Any proposal investigating sensors, materials or devices that does not integrate these products with an environmental engineering activity or area of research may be returned without review.

Major areas of interest include:

• Enhancing the availability of high quality water supplies: Development of innovative biological, chemical and physical treatment processes to meet the growing demand for water; investigation of processes that remove and degrade contaminants, remediate contaminated soil and groundwater, and convert wastewaters into water suitable for reuse; investigation of environmental engineering aspects of urban watersheds, reservoirs, estuaries and storm water management; investigation of biogeochemical and transport processes driving water quality in the aquatic and subsurface environment.  (Please note that research targeting the chemical or physical separation process should be submitted to the Chemical and Biological Separations Program, CBET 1417) .

• Fate and transport of contaminants of emerging concern in air, water, and soils: Investigate the fate, transport and remediation of potentially harmful contaminants and their by-products. (Please note that research concerning the environmental health and safety of nanomaterials should be submitted to the Nano-Bio Phenomena and Processes in the Environment program, CBET 1179).

Announcement Number:

PD 15-1440

Closing Date:

October 20, 2015

Link to Full Announcement

http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501029&WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click

Contact Information

William Cooper

(703) 292-5356

wjcooper@nsf.gov