Eligible: Education, Nonprofits
Supports fundamental research focused on reducing pollution and its environmental and human impacts through closing resource loops; smart amendments; environmental manipulation; or remediation with engineered processes. The duration of unsolicited awards is generally one to three years. The typical annual award size for the program is around $110,000 per year.
Grant
NSF: Environmental Engineering
U.S. National Science Foundation
Federal
$10,798,000
No
Education, Nonprofits
Climate
Research & Development
Eligible lead organizations include:
• U.S. universities and two-/four‑year colleges (including community colleges).
• Nonprofit, non-academic organizations such as independent research institutes.
• Certain for‑profit organizations, tribal colleges/universities, and other institution types as allowed under the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) for unsolicited proposals.
State, local, and tribal governments and nonprofits typically participate as partners or subawardees.
The goal of the program is to support potentially transformative fundamental research that applies scientific and engineering principles to 1) prevent, minimize, or re-use solid, liquid, and gaseous discharges of pollution to soil, water, and air by closing resource loops or through other measures; 2) mitigate the ecological and human-health impacts of such releases by smart/adaptive/reactive amendments or manipulation of the environment, and 3) remediate polluted environments through engineered chemical, biological, and/or geo-physical processes.
Major areas of interest include (but are not limited to):
• Building a future without pollution or waste: Investigation of innovative biogeochemical processes that prevent or minimize the production of waste.
• Sustainable supply and protection of water: Investigation of innovative biogeochemical processes that remove, transform, and/or prevent the release of contaminants in surface and groundwater; innovative recover processes from wastewater or saline water; innovative approaches to smart and adaptive management of bodies of water to maintain/improve quality and prevent downstream pollution.
• Environmental chemistry, fate, and transport of contaminants of emerging concern in air, water, soils, and sediments: Investigation of transport and biogeochemical reactivity in the environment; environmental forensics to identify sources and reaction pathways; field- and laboratory scale research that bridges gaps between data and modeling predictions.
• Environmental engineering of the built environment: Research to understand the biogeochemical reactivity of the built environment to improve human and ecological health; research that will lead to new technologies to improve outdoor and indoor air quality; research to understand how drinking water and wastewater chemical characteristics impact or are affected by water quality and human health.
National
No
Unspecified
Chenyang S. Jiang
EnvE@nsf.gov
(703) 292-7858
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