Biogas Digester Process Development. Co-PI with Prof. James Hsu, Chemical Engineering. ($33k) Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance and ($20k) Air Products.
Isolation and Identification of Bacteriophage for Minimization of Foam-Forming Bacteria in Wastewater Treatment Plants. ($48k). Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance.
Effects of Surfaces on Bacterial Metabolic Activity and Survival: Examination of a physiochemical/bioenergetic mechanism. ($375k). National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Grant 0134362.
Research Experience for Teachers. ($30k). National Science Foundation, Supplement to Grant 0134362.
Research Experience for Undergraduates. ($24k). National Science Foundation, Supplement to Grant 0134362.
Bacterial Growth and Survival on Antimicrobial Glass (with Himanshu Jain, Dept. of Material Science and Engineering) National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates program, International Materials Institute.
Effects of EDTA on Bacterial Surface Properties. ($85k). Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance.
Remediation of Coal Tar-Contaminated Water with Natural Peat. ($10k). Electric Power Research Institute.
Microbial Ecology of Permeable Reactive Barriers. ($60k). Electric Power Research Institute (Strategic Science & Technology Program) and Duke Energy Company.
Effects of Permanganate Oxidation/Precipitation on Coal Tar Dissolution. Electric Power Reserach Institute ($65k) and the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance ($30k).
Laboratory Assessment of Free Coal Tar at MGP Sites.Electric Power Research Institute ($110k) and the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance ($40k) (Co-PI with Horace Moo-Young).
Brownfield Development with Flexible On-Site Infrastructure. Pennsylvania Industrial Technology Alliance ($15k).
Hydrogen as an Indicator to Assess Biological Activity During Trace-Metal Bioremediation. DOE NABIR Program (with Peter Jaffe (PI), Princeton University, and Derek Lovley, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst).
Effects of Surfactants on Bacterial Transport Through Porous Media. National Science Foundation. (with Peter Jaffe (PI), Princeton University).
Surfactant-Enhanced Biodegradation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons. Air Force Office of Scientific Research and EPA Northeast Hazardous Substance Research Center (with Peter Jaffe (PI), Princeton University and Saumyen Guha, IIT Kanpur).
Risk Assessment for Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Using Component Fractions. Princeton Environmental Institute - Research Initiative in Science & Engineering (PEI-RISE) Grant (with Catherine Peters and Christopher Knightes, Princeton University).
