Center For Sustainable Solutions Research Focus Areas

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

Tiospaye Scholar Program-American Indian StudentSupport

Infrastructure development for Tribal communities

Students joining professionals to provide technical assistance

Collaboration with Tribal Colleges

Engaging youth in STEM activities and increasing outreach

Tribal support for engineering and science initiatives

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