Center For Sustainable Solutions Research Focus Areas

PFAS and Emerging Contaminants

Developing low-cost, passive treatment systems
Advancing drinking water treatment systems
Identifying and improving effective soil treatments
Providing educational resources
Training future engineers and scientists on standard remediation techniques
Sharing successful treatment options with stakeholders
Investigating phytoremediation treatments
Microbial bioremediation
Novel uses for GAC and organo-modified clays for site-specific and field-scale treatments of soil and water
Countering disinformation
Studying transport mechanisms and mode
Assessing environmental impact
Focusing on high-impact, transformative solutions
Evaluating ecotoxicity and holistic effect on natural systems
Fate and transport at the surface water/groundwater interface
Understanding co-contaminant interactions and differential plume migration

Planning, programming, and evaluation of infrastructure
Pre-design site geotechnical, environmental, hydromechanical and hydrological studies
Design of critical structures, systems, and materials evaluation
Construction monitoring and instrumentation of critical structures and systems
Quality control and assurance routine or custom testing
Long-term monitoring and assessments of infrastructure
Reconnaissance after extreme events, failures, or accidents
Environmental health and safety, industrial hygiene, and ergonomics

Developing novel bio-enabled methods of capture of carbon gasses
Capture of atmospheric carbon or from industrial point sources
Lab scale and field scale experiments with carbon mineralization in deep rock
Experiments with carbon capture and mineralization in soil at lab and field scale
Advancing novel micro-organisms that accelerate carbon mineralization in soil and rock
Biological modeling and experiments on critical metals extraction from rock by microbes during carbon mineralization
Developing carbon up-cycling microbes to produce formic acid and biopolymers
Novel biocatalytic methods of upscaling carbon gases to value-added products

BioWRAP - Spray-on biodegradable bioplastics which protect soil and reduce agrochemical use
Meta-analysis of soil carbon sequestration due to manure amendments
Farm-gate life cycle assessments of oilseed production
Regenerative jet and diesel production from industrial oilseeds
Biodiesel supply chain optimization
Aquatic ecology -food web and nutrient dynamics
Groundwater-Surface water interactions
Long-term trends in land use
Surface water availability and water quality
Assessment of planning for mine reclamation locations

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