ERWR Projects (grouped by research area, then by sponsor)

• Environmental Remediation Subsurface Science Research Area
• Water Resources Research Area
• Bioenergy Research Area
• Unexploded Ordinance (UXO) Discrimination Research Area

DOE Biological & Environmental Research (BER)

• Sustainable Systems Scientific Focus Area (SFA)
• Rifle, Colorado Integrated Field Research Challenge (IFRC)
• SBR - Individual and Collaborative Projects
  • Mezoscale Biotransformation of Uranium: Identifying Sites and Strategies Where Reductive Immobilization Is Impractical
    • PI: Tokunaga
  • Coupled Sorption to Soil Weathering during Reactive Transport: Impacts of Mineral Transformation and Sorbate Aging on Contaminant Speciation and Mobility
    • PI: Tokunaga
  • Quantifying and Predicting Reactive Transport of Uranium in Waste Plumes: Are Colloids and Nonparticles Important
    • PI: Wan
  • Environmental Science Program at ALS
    • PI: Nico
  • In Situ Sequestration of ⁹⁰Sr and Uranium in the Vadose Zone through Microbial Participation of Phosphate Materials
    • PI: Conrad
  • Coupled Biogeochemical Process Evaluation for Conceptualizing Trichloroethylene Co-Metabolism
    • PI: Conrad w/Colwell (Oregon State)
  • Subsurface Uranium Fate & Transport: Integrated Experiments and Modeling of Coupled Biogeochemical Mechanisms of Nanocrystalline Uraninite Oxidation by Fe(III)-(Hydr)oxides
    • LBNL PI: Spycher w/Peyton (Montana State)
  • Microbiological, Geochemical, and Hydrologic Processes at the Rifle, Colorado, IFRC
    • PI: Long
  • A Kinetic Analysis of the Precipitation of Nanophase Iron Oxides, Hydroxides and Iron Silicates on Mineral Surfaces
    • LBNL PI: Waychunas w/Brantley; EMSI
  • Trajectories of Microbial Community Function in Response to Accelerated Remediation of Subsurface Metal Contaminants
    • LBNL PI: Brodie w/Firestone (U.C. Berkeley)
  • Hanford 300 Area Integrated Challenge Project
    • LBNL PI: Christensen w/Zachara (PNNL)
  • Multiscale Characterization and Prediction of Coupled Subsurface Biogeochemical-Hydrological Processes
    • PI: Hubbard
  • Hydrological Predictions Using Novel Characterization and Multiscale Modeling Approaches
    • LBNL PI: Hubbard w/Shafer (U. of South Carolina)
  • Multiscale Investigations on Natural Attenuation at the ORNL IFRC
    • LBNL PI: Hubbard w/Jardine (ORNL)
  • Advanced Self-Potential Inversion: Development and Use for Investigating Natural Recharge Processes at the ORNL IFRC
    • LBNL PI: Hubbard w/Revil (CSM)

DOE Environmental Management (EM)

• Technical Working Group for Attenuation-Based Remedies
  • LBNL PI: Hubbard w/M. Denham (SRNL)
• Computational Applied Research in Subsurface Science to Support Performance Assessments and Groundwater Modeling
  • PI: Birkholzer
• EM International Program Tech Support
  • PI: Faybishenko

DOD ESTCP

• Geophysical Imaging for Investigating the Delivery and Distribution of Amendments in the Heterogeneous Subsurface
  • LBNL PI: Hubbard w/A. Kelley (ARS)

Other Projects

• Predicting the Stability/Status and Mobility of Engineered Nanomaterials after Their Release into Soils and Groundwater see link above [also listed in Molecular Microbial Biology Research Area].
  • PI: Wan
  • Sponsor: Genomes to Life(GTL)
• Chromium and Manganese Chemistry in Atmospheric Aerosols
  • PI: Nico
  • Sponsor: EPA

• Basin-Scale Real-Time Salinity Management
  • PI:  Quinn
  • Sponsor:  US Bureau of Reclamation
• Remote Sensing and Sensor Technologies for Seasonal Wetland Habitat Assessment under a Modified Hydrology
  • PI:  Quinn
  • Sponsor:  State Water Resources Control Board, California Department of Water Resources
• WESTSIM :  A Surface- Groundwater Simulation Model for Assessing Groundwater Overdraft in the Western San Joaquin Valley under Future Climate and Projected Water Supply Allocation.
  • PI:  Quinn
  • Sponsor:  US Bureau of Reclamation
• Decision Support for Real-Time Management of Dissolved Oxygen in the San Joaquin River
  • PI:  Quinn
  • Sponsor:  California Bay-Delta Authority, California Regional Water Quality Control Board
• Surface-Groundwater Interactions and Bacterial Support
  • PI: Hubbard
  • Sponsor: Sonoma County Water
• Geophysical Monitoring of Riverbed Filtration Dynamics
  • PI: Hubbard
  • Sponsor: Sonoma County Water
• HydroImage
  • PI: Hubbard
  • Sponsor: DOE SBIR
• Analysis of the Impacts of Energy Crop Land Use Change on Climate and Hydrology (also listed in Bioenergy Research Area)
  • PI: Miller
  • Sponsor: Energy Biosciences Institute—EBI
• Direct Rapid Detection Based on Microbial Census—PhyloChip (also listed in Molecular Microbial Biology Research Area)
  • PI: Andersen
  • Sponsor: Marin County
• Monitoring the Montecito Outflow Wastewater Plume (also listed in Molecular Microbial Biology Research Area)
  • PI: Andersen
  • Sponsor: Heal the Ocean

BP Energy Bioscience Institute (EBI)

• Microbially Enhanced Hydrocarbon Recovery (MEHR) Systems (Biology Program)
  • PI: Hazen
• A Realistic Technology and Engineering Assessment of Algae Biofuel Production
  • PI: Quinn
• Analysis of the Impacts of Energy Crop Land Use Change on Climate and Hydrology (also listed in Water Resources Research Area)
  • PI: Miller

DOE BER Bioenergy SFA

• SFA Executive Summary
• Synchrotron Infrared Microspectromicroscopy of Cellulose Degradation of Living Cellulolytic Bacteria
  • PI: Holman

Joint BioEnergy Institute Fuels Synthesis

• Genome-enabled discovery of genes involved in the synthesis of biofuel molecules
  
  • PI:  Beller

Other Projects

• Detection of Biosustainable Energy in the Deep Subsurface of Earth and Mars (also listed in Molecular Microbial Biology Research Area)
  • LBNL PI: Hazen w/U. of Indiana
  • Sponsor: NASA

DOD-ESTCP

• Demonstration of Berkeley UXO Discriminator (BUD)
  • PI: Gasperikova
• MM-0838 Demonstration of Berkeley UXO Discriminator (BUD) at Live Sites
  • PI: Gasperikova

DOD-SERDP

• Detection and Classification of Buried UXO and Determination of Seafloor Parameters in Littoral Environments Using Resonance Scattering Sonar
  • LBNL PI: Korneev w/Gritto
• Hand-Held UXO Discriminator
  • PI: Gasperikova
• Isolating and Discriminating Overlapping Signatures in Cluttered Environments
  • PI: Gasperikova