Greater Research Opportunities Fellowship Program

Examples of Funded Projects

1. Evaluate the various biogeochemical processes occurring in a pilot scale constructed wetland treatment system to decrease mercury, selenium, and arsenic concentrations in flue gas desulfurization (FGD) wastewater to achieve established discharge limitations. 2. Characterize the distribution of Particulate Matter (PM 2.5) and ground level ozone resulting from natural (anthropogenic), agricultural sources and from prescribed and wildland fires. 3. Employ a novel synthesis method involving specialty polymers to develop materials that may be employed downstream of a diesel engine as part of a catalytic converter. 4. Perform a comparative analysis of sedimentation and its environmental impacts resulting from drinking water treatment and urbanization in Monte Ne, Blackburn Creek, and Prairie Creek coves of Beaver Reservoir, northwest Arkansas. 5. Measurement of tropospheric ozone at a height of 210 meters above the ground for an entire ozone season in Tulsa, Oklahoma. See Web Page for information on previously funded projects under the Greater Research Opportunities: Fellowship Program: http://www.epa.gov/ncer.

Program Accomplishments

Applications received for the Greater Research Opportunities: Fellowship Program (Graduate)- FY 05: 231; FY 06: 167. New awards for the Greater Research Opportunities: Fellowship Program (Graduate)- FY 05: 23; FY 06: 21. Applications received for the Greater Research Opportunities: Fellowship Program (Undergraduate)- FY 05: 45; FY 06: 40. New awards for the Greater Research Opportunities: Fellowship Program (Undergraduate)- FY 05: 16; FY 06: 15. Abstracts of awards and summary results of the research are available on the NCER homepage: http://www.epa.gov/ncer.