Award Abstract #0320721
MRI: Acquisition of Natural Treatment Systems Research Facility
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NSF Org: |
CBET
Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems
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Initial Amendment Date: |
August 29, 2003 |
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Latest Amendment Date: |
May 16, 2005 |
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Award Number: |
0320721 |
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Award Instrument: |
Standard Grant |
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Program Manager: |
Leon Esterowitz
CBET Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems
ENG Directorate for Engineering
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Start Date: |
September 1, 2003 |
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Expires: |
August 31, 2006 (Estimated) |
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Awarded Amount to Date: |
$436797 |
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Investigator(s): |
Joel Burken burken@mst.edu (Principal Investigator)
John Hogan (Co-Principal Investigator) Mark Fitch (Co-Principal Investigator) David Wronkiewicz (Co-Principal Investigator) David Porterfield (Co-Principal Investigator) Melanie Mormile (Co-Principal Investigator)
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Sponsor: |
Missouri University of Science and Technology
300 W 12th Street
Rolla, MO 65409 573/341-4134
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NSF Program(s): |
MAJOR RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION
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Field Application(s): |
0203000 Health
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Program Reference Code(s): |
OTHR, 5345, 0000
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Program Element Code(s): |
1189
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ABSTRACT
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0320721
Burken
The PIs represent all academic schools and colleges on the UMR campus, assuring that this instrumentation will be prominent in interdisciplinary research for decades, fostering productivity, funding, and knowledge to be widely disseminated. Specific research topics to which the new instrumentation is of overriding importance include: 1) Heavy metals sequestration in natural systems and constructed wetlands, 2) Uptake and volatilization of VOCs in phytoremediation systems, 3) Heavy metals transport in plants, 4) Degradation of chlorinated compounds by genetically engineered-root colonizing bacteria, .GEM-Phytoremediation., and 5) Extremophile bacteria in bioremediation. Many other research projects of environmental nature will be enhanced, though not sharing the natural systems focus. Broad access of instrumentation will be granted to faculty members and students across the UMR campus. Biological Sciences faculty and students will observe the greatest impact, as there are no greenhouse facilities available currently, even though many teach botany/plant physiology courses and perform plant-associated research. Additionally, student researchers from many departments will learn to utilize the state of the art equipment. These students and new ones attracted with advanced facilities will be trained to investigate environmental problems not yet imagined.
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