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2002 Progress Report: Enhancing Water Research in West Virginia: Organization and Capability Building
EPA Grant Number: R829410E01Title: Enhancing Water Research in West Virginia: Organization and Capability Building
Investigators: Ziemkiewicz, P. , Szwilski, Tony
Institution: West Virginia University , Marshall University
EPA Project Officer: Winner, Darrell
Project Period: October 1, 2001 through September 30, 2003 (Extended to September 30, 2004)
Project Period Covered by this Report: October 1, 2001 through September 30, 2002
Project Amount: $274,928
RFA: EPSCoR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) (2001)
Research Category: EPSCoR (The Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research)
Description:
Objective:Environmental research in West Virginia is based on relatively few world class, competitive programs within narrow technical fields: mine drainage, coal combustion byproducts, watershed restoration, and geographical information systems (GIS)-assisted decision support. Improvement of our environmental research capability will require increasing the breadth of our competitive research and the number and quality of faculty and students. To maximize the benefits of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), this Strategic Improvement Plan (SIP) proposes to build on the state's existing research management infrastructure, while improving the communication between the faculty and students, and improving the beneficiaries of environmental research: industry, the public, and state and federal agencies. Progress Summary:
For this project year, we have:
• Conducted visits to state colleges;
• Developed a research capability database;
• Populated the database;
• Planned the Water Conference 2002; and
• Coordinated the West Virginia Water Conference that took place on October
23-24, 2002 in Charleston, WV.
Future activities for this research project include:
• Bringing together key researchers in WV for the purpose of identifying the state's water issues and developing research teams.
• Identifying water issues that will be pursued in proposal development.
• Contacting potential research teams and inviting them to submit proposals.
• Advertising the West Virginia Research Capability Database.
• Contacting the researchers who have completed the online form for the database, and inviting them to participate in proposal development addressing the state's water issues.
In addition, specific actions under the SIP will include broadening the scope of the West Virginia Advisory Committee for Water Research, establishing formal linkages between the state's two research universities, and organizing a State Water Issues Conference. In addition, we will support a Science and Engineering Environmental Research (SEER) project in an area that will serve state and EPA priorities: mercury speciation and atmospheric chemistry.
Supplemental Keywords:mercury speciation, atmospheric chemistry, SEER, West Virginia, WV, EPSCoR, water, GIS. , Ecosystem Protection/Environmental Exposure & Risk, Water, Geographic Area, Scientific Discipline, RFA, ECOSYSTEMS, Ecosystem/Assessment/Indicators, Restoration, Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration, estuarine research, Ecology, Aquatic Ecosystems & Estuarine Research, Ecological Monitoring, Aquatic Ecosystem, Ecological Indicators, Ecosystem Protection, Aquatic Ecosystems, Ecology and Ecosystems, State, water quality, WVA, remote sensing, environmental indicators, ecoindicator, environmental awareness, monitoring, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program, estuarine integrity, estuarine ecoindicator, ecological exposure, environmental stress, mercury, estuaries, estuarine waters
Progress and Final Reports:
Original Abstract
2003 Progress Report
Final Report