2004 In 2004, the DOE, through its Office of Biological and Environmental Research, awarded 23 research grants in the NABIR program. The awards covered scientific research in all of NABIR's scientific program elements. Biogeochemsitry Projects PIs Reduction and Reoxidation of Soils During and After Uranium Bioremediation; Implications for Long Term Uraninite Stability and Bioremediation Scheme Implementation Peter Jaffe Princeton University jaffe@princeton.edu Subsurface Bio-Immobilization of Plutonium: Experiment and Model Validation Study Don Reed Los Alamos National Lab. dreed@lanl.gov Mesoscale Biotransformation of Uranium: Identifying Sites and Strategies Where Reductive Immobilization is Practical Tetsu Tokunaga Lawrence Berkeley Lab. tktokunaga@lbl.gov Biotransformation Projects PIs Anaerobic Biotransformation and Mobility of Pu and of Pu-EDTA Harvey Bolton Pacific Northwest Nat'l. Lab. Harvey.bolton@pnl.gov Uranium immobilization through Fe(II) biooxidation: A column study John Coates Univ. of California, Berkeley jcoates@nature.berkley.edu Composition, Reactivity, and Regulation of Extracellular Metal-Reducing Structures (Bacterial Nanowires) Produced by Dissimilatory Metal Reducing Bacteria Yuri Gorby Pacific Northwest Nat'l. Lab. Yuri.gorby@pnl.gov Investigating In Situ Bioremediation Approaches for Sustained Uranium Immobilization Independent of Nitrate Reduction Tom Phelps Oak Ridge Nat'l. Lab. phelpstj@ornl.gov Promoting uranium immobilization by the activities of microbial phosphatases Patricial Sobecky Georgia Institute of Techn. patricia.sobecky@biology. gatech.edu Community Dynamics and Microbial Ecology Projects PIs Microbial pathways for the reduction of mercury in saturated subsurface sediments Tamar Barkay Rutgers University barkay@aesop.rutgers.edu Composition Of Microbial Communities Used For In Situ Radionuclide Immobilization: Natural Gene Transfer To Develop Resistance To Metal Toxicity Jeffrey Fitts Brookhaven Nat'l. Lab. Fitts@bnl.gov Integrative Studies (These Interdisciplinary projects integrate research from more than one NABIR element) Projects PIs Aqueous Complexation Reactions Governing the Rate and Extent of Biogeochemical U(VI) Reduction Scott Brooks Oak Ridge Nat'l. Lab. Brookssc@ornl.gov Reaction-Based Reactive Transport Modeling Of Iron Reduction And Uranium Immobilization At Area 2 Of The NABIR Field Research Center William Burgos Pennsylvania State University bburgos@psu.edu Integrated Nucleic Acid System for In-Field Monitoring of Microbial Community Dynamics and Metabolic Activity Darrell Chandler Argonne Nat'l. Lab. dchandler@anl.gov Characterizing the Catalytic Potential of Deinococcus, Arthrobacter and other Robust Bacteria in Contaminated Subsurface Environments of the Hanford Site Michael Daly Uniformed Services Univ. of Health Sciences mdaly@usuhs.mil Biogeochemical Mechanisms Controlling Reduced Radionuclide Particle Properties and Stability James Fredrickson Pacific Northwest Nat'l. Lab. Jim.fredrickson@pnl.gov Biogeochemical Cycling and Environmental Stability of Pu Relevant to Long-Term Stewardship of DOE Sites Bruce Honeyman Colorado School of Mines honeyman@nines.edu Stabilization of Plutonium in Subsurface Environments via Microbial Reduction and Biofilm Formation Mary Neu Los Alamos Nat'l. Lab. mneu@lanl.gov An Integrated Assessment of Geochemical and Community Structure Determinants of Metal Reduction Rates in Subsurface Sediments Anthony Palumbo Oak Ridge Nat'l. Lab. palumboav@ornl.gov Field Studies Projects PIs Field-Scale Evaluation Of Biological Uranium Reduction And Reoxidation In The Near-Source Zone At The Nabir Field Research Center In Oak Ridge, Tn Craig Criddle Stanford University ccriddle@stanford.edu Field-Integrated Studies of Long-Term Sustainability of Chromium Bioreduction at Hanford 100H Site Terry Hazen Lawrence Berkeley Lab. tchazen@lbl.gov Stability of U(VI) and Tc(VII) Reducing Microbial Communities to Environmental Perturbation: Development and Testing of a Thermodynamic Network Model Jonathan Istok Oregon State Univ. jack.istok@orst.edu Factors Controlling In Situ Uranium and Technetium Bio-Reduction and Reoxidation at the NABIR Field Research Center Jonathan Istok Oregon State Univ. jack.istok@orst.edu In situ microbial community control of the stability of bio-reduced uranium David White Univ. of Tenn. Knoxville dwhite@utk.edu Assessment Projects PIs New Catalytic DNA Biosensors for Radionuclides and Metal ions Yi Lu Univ. of Illinois at Urbana yi-lu@uiuc.edu Back to Awards Page
In 2004, the DOE, through its Office of Biological and Environmental Research, awarded 23 research grants in the NABIR program. The awards covered scientific research in all of NABIR's scientific program elements.
Biogeochemsitry
Reduction and Reoxidation of Soils During and After Uranium Bioremediation; Implications for Long Term Uraninite Stability and Bioremediation Scheme Implementation
Peter Jaffe Princeton University jaffe@princeton.edu
Biotransformation
Harvey Bolton Pacific Northwest Nat'l. Lab. Harvey.bolton@pnl.gov
Uranium immobilization through Fe(II) biooxidation: A column study
Composition, Reactivity, and Regulation of Extracellular Metal-Reducing Structures (Bacterial Nanowires) Produced by Dissimilatory Metal Reducing Bacteria
Investigating In Situ Bioremediation Approaches for Sustained Uranium Immobilization Independent of Nitrate Reduction
Community Dynamics and Microbial Ecology
Microbial pathways for the reduction of mercury in saturated subsurface sediments
Composition Of Microbial Communities Used For In Situ Radionuclide Immobilization: Natural Gene Transfer To Develop Resistance To Metal Toxicity
Integrative Studies (These Interdisciplinary projects integrate research from more than one NABIR element)
Aqueous Complexation Reactions Governing the Rate and Extent of Biogeochemical U(VI) Reduction
Scott Brooks Oak Ridge Nat'l. Lab. Brookssc@ornl.gov
Reaction-Based Reactive Transport Modeling Of Iron Reduction And Uranium Immobilization At Area 2 Of The NABIR Field Research Center
Integrated Nucleic Acid System for In-Field Monitoring of Microbial Community Dynamics and Metabolic Activity
Characterizing the Catalytic Potential of Deinococcus, Arthrobacter and other Robust Bacteria in Contaminated Subsurface Environments of the Hanford Site
Biogeochemical Mechanisms Controlling Reduced Radionuclide Particle Properties and Stability
Biogeochemical Cycling and Environmental Stability of Pu Relevant to Long-Term Stewardship of DOE Sites
An Integrated Assessment of Geochemical and Community Structure Determinants of Metal Reduction Rates in Subsurface Sediments
Field Studies
Field-Scale Evaluation Of Biological Uranium Reduction And Reoxidation In The Near-Source Zone At The Nabir Field Research Center In Oak Ridge, Tn
Craig Criddle Stanford University ccriddle@stanford.edu
Stability of U(VI) and Tc(VII) Reducing Microbial Communities to Environmental Perturbation: Development and Testing of a Thermodynamic Network Model
Factors Controlling In Situ Uranium and Technetium Bio-Reduction and Reoxidation at the NABIR Field Research Center
In situ microbial community control of the stability of bio-reduced uranium
Assessment
New Catalytic DNA Biosensors for Radionuclides and Metal ions
Yi Lu Univ. of Illinois at Urbana yi-lu@uiuc.edu
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