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Awards

1998

In August 1997, the DOE, through its Office of Biological and Environmental Research, awarded $10 million in grants for scientific research in the NABIR program. The scientific awards cover six of NABIR's seven scientific program elements.

The research will be devoted to providing the fundamental scientific understanding needed to make bioremediation a viable option for dealing with DOE's most challenging cleanup problems. The scope of the newly funded research covers experimentation on metal and radionuclide contamination, specifically on such contamination associated with weapons production.

The award recipients are listed according to the scientific element most closely aligned with their research.

Biotransformation and Biodegradation

Principal Investigators

Co PIs

Projects

Harvey Bolton
Pacific Northwest Nat'l Laboratory

 

Biodegradation of PuEDTA and Impacts on Pu Mobility

Jim K. Fredrickson
Pacific Northwest Nat'l Laboratory

 

Microbial Reduction and Immobilization of Uranium in Fe(III) - and Mn(IV)- Containing Sediments

Kenneth H. Nealson
California Institute of Technology/Jet Propulsion Laboratory

 

Bioremediation of Actinide and Transition Metal Contamination: Mechanistic Studies

Brent M. Peyton
Pacific Northwest Nat'l Laboratory

 

Acceptable Endpoints for Metals and Radionuclides: Quantifying the Stability of Uranium and Lead Immobilized Under Sulfate Reducing Conditions

Murthy A. Vairavamurthy
Brookhaven Nat'l Laboratory

 

Transformation of Heavy Metal Contaminants in Sulfate-Reducing Subsurface Environments: The Role of Thiolated Compounds and Hydrogen Sulfide

Laura Vanderberg-Twary
Los Alamos Nat'l Laboratory

Mary Neu
Los Alamos Nat'l Laboratory

Environmental Actinide Mobility: Plutonium and Uranium Interactions with Exopolysaccharides and Siderophores of Aerobic Soil Microbes

Community Dynamics and Microbial Ecology

Principal Investigators

Co PIs

Projects

Fred J. Brockman
Pacific Northwest Nat'l Laboratory

David Balkwill
Florida State Univ.

Thomas Kieft
New Mexico Tech

Vadose Zone Microbial Community Structure and Activity in Metal/Radionuclide-Contaminated Sediments

Derek Lovley
Univ. of Massachusetts

 

Determination of the Structure of Metal- and Humics-Reducing Microbial Communities in Subsurface Environments Contaminated with Uranium and Other Metals

Terence L. Marsh
Michigan State Univ.

 

Systematic Analysis of Microbial Communities in a Chromium Contaminated Super Fund Site

Barth F. Smets
Univ. of Connecticut

Hassan Brim

Horizontal Gene Transfer as Adaptive Response to Heavy Metal Stress in Subsurface Microbial Communities

James M. Tiedje
Michigan State Univ.

Tony Palumbo
Oak Ridge Nat'l Laboratory

Jizhong Zhou
Oak Ridge Nat'l Laboratory

Noncompetitive Microbial Diversity Patterns in Soils: Their Causes and Implications for Bioremediation

Biomolecular Science and Engineering

Principal Investigators

Co PIs

Projects

Douglas S. Clark
Univ. of California at Berkeley

Jay Keasling
Univ. of California at Berkeley

Metabolic Engineering of Marine Microorganisms for Heavy Metal Removal

Michael J. Daly
Uniformed Services Univ. of the Health Sciences

 

Design and Construction of Deinococcus radiodurans for Bioremediation of Radionuclides and Metals at DOE Waste Sites

John J. Dunn
Brookhaven Nat'l Laboratory

 

Stabilization of Radionuclides by Anaerobic Bacteria

Stuart B. Levy
Tufts Univ.

 

Genes and Functions Regulated by adnA in Pseudomonas fluorescens

Abdul Matin
Stanford Univ.

 

Metal and Radionuclide Bioremediation by Starvation Promotor-Driven Combinatorial Bacteria

J. Craig Venter
The Institute for Genomic Research

Rebecca Clayton
The Institute for Genomic Research

Complete Genome Sequencing of Shewanella putrefaciens

Judy D. Wall
Univ. of Missouri

 

Genes for Uranium Bioremediation in the Anaerobic Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria

X. Sunney Xie
Pacific Northwest Nat'l Laboratory

Luying Xun
Washington State Univ.

Single Molecule Studies of Biodegradation of Radionuclide-Organic Complexes

Biogeochemical Dynamics

Principal Investigators

Co PIs

Projects

Scott C. Brooks
Oak Ridge Nat'l Laboratory

Philip M. Jardine
Oak Ridge Nat'l Laboratory Lauren Larsen
Oak Ridge Nat'l Laboratory Jin-Ping (Jack) Gwo
Oak Ridge Nat'l Laboratory Alan T. Stone
Johns Hopkins Univ.

Microbiological Controls of Chelated Radionuclides in Multiscale Structured Media

Scott E. Fendorf
Univ. of Idaho

 

Microbially Induced Reduction of Toxic Metals and Radionuclides: Competing Geochemical and Enzymatic Processes

Flynn W. Picardal
Indiana Univ.

Eric Roden
Univ. of Alabama Matilde Urrutia
Univ. of Alabama Rona Donahoe
Univ. of Alabama D. Craig Cooper

Influence of Microbial Nitrate Reduction on Subsurface Iron Biogeochemistry, Microbial Chromium Reduction and Chromium Redox Chemistry

Joseph M. Suflita
Univ. of Oklahoma

Lee Krumholz
Univ. of Oklahoma

The Immobilization of Radionuclides and Metals in the Subsurface by Sulfate Reducing Bacteria

John M. Zachara
Pacific Northwest Nat'l Laboratory

 

Solubilization of Radionuclides and Metals by Iron-Reducing Bacteria

Assessment

Principal Investigators

Co PIs

Projects

Craig C. Brandt
Oak Ridge Nat'l Laboratory

Susan Pfiffner
Univ. of Tennessee

Artificial Neural Networks: An Innovative Tool for the Assessment of Microbial Communities

Chung-Hsuan Chen
Oak Ridge Nat'l Laboratory

 

Rapid Gene Probe for Microorganisms Monitoring by Novel MS Approaches

Kirk Hatfield
Univ. of Florida

Chuck Sommerville

An In Situ Tracer Method for Establishing the Presence and Predicting the Activity of Heavy Metal-Reducing Microbes in the Subsurface

Acceleration

Principal Investigators

Co PIs

Projects

Ellyn M. Murphy
Pacific Northwest Nat'l Laboratory

 

The Influence of Heterogeneity and Growth on Microbial Transport in Saturated Porous Media

Tullis C. Onstott,
Princeton Univ.

See also Geomicrobiology Research Group web site

Mary DeFlaun

Tim Griffin
Golder Associates

Bill Holben
Univ. of Montana

Ernie Majer
Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Laboratory

Enhancement of Bacterial Transport in Aerobic and Anaerobic Environments: Assessing the Effects of Metal-Oxide Chemical Hetereogeneity

Tom J. Phelps
Oak Ridge Nat'l Laboratory

 

Vibration-accelerated Transport of Microbes in Subsurface Media

Donald J. P. Swift
Old Dominion Univ.

Mike McInerey
Univ. of Oklahoma

Heterogeneity of Sedimentary Aquifers: Expansion of "System" Stratigraphic Concepts, Calibrated Against 'Geophysical Imaging' by Ground Penetrating Radar.

BASIC
(Bioremediation and its Societal Implications and Concerns)

Principal Investigators

Co PIs

Projects

Gordon Bilyard
Pacific Northwest Nat'l Laboratory

Jodi Amaya
Pacific Northwest Nat'l Laboratory

Gretchen Hund
Battelle

Char Word
Washington State Univ.

Communicating Effectively with NABIR Stakeholders

Amy K. Wolfe
Oak Ridge Nat'l Laboratory

David J. Bjornstad
Oak Ridge Nat'l Laboratory

The Determinants of Social Acceptability of Genetically Engineered Microorganisms for Bioremediation

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