Grantee Research Project Results
Final Report: 1998 South Carolina EPA/EPSCoR Program
EPA Grant Number: R827612E01Title: 1998 South Carolina EPA/EPSCoR Program
Investigators: Sawyer, Roger , Woodin, Sarah A. , Lincoln, David E. , Lovell, Charles R. , Little, T. Scott , Morris, James T. , Freedman, David , Yoch, Duane , Dawson, John , Marton, Laszlo , Leiboda, Lukasz , Czako, Mihaly , Wing, R. , Dean, Ralph , Chen, Yung-Pin
Institution: University of South Carolina at Columbia , Clemson University
EPA Project Officer: Chung, Serena
Project Period: June 1, 1999 through May 30, 2002
Project Amount: $500,000
RFA: EPSCoR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) (1998) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: EPSCoR (The Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research)
Objective:
The 1998 South Carolina U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA)/ Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Program consisted of a Strategic Improvement Plan (SIP) and two Science and Engineering Environmental Research (SEER) projects. In support of the program were research infrastructures at the University of South Carolina and Clemson University, state initiatives to support research and education, and U.S. EPA-funded and other environmental projects. The two SEER projects were in the general area of studies of environmental dehalogenation. These research efforts contributed to the maintenance of a pristine coastal environment, which is critical to the economic vitality of South Carolina.
Summary/Accomplishments (Outputs/Outcomes):
SIP included precollege enrichment activities for K-12 students, undergraduate, and graduate research programs, and activities to promote public science. The program was completed on target with participant impact numbers as originally proposed. Over the course of the 2-year project, the program provided a summer research experience for 5 high school and 15 undergraduate students. The 1998 U.S. EPA/EPSCoR program also sponsored a Minority Undergraduate Fellowship in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of South Carolina, which recruited an African American student to the University of South Carolina by offering the U.S. EPA Fellowship. The U.S. EPA Fellowship provided $5,000 to the student, which was matched with an equivalent amount from departmental and college resources. During the 2-year award, six graduate students were provided fellowships of $2,000 as supplements to the normal teaching or research assistantships that were awarded by the participating departments and universities for masters- and doctoral-level students.
The 1998 South Carolina U.S. EPA/EPSCoR program provided several broad, interdisciplinary approaches to environmental education to promote public understanding of the need to protect our limited natural resources. One of the activities was "Environmental Science in the Field." This activity included a team of high school, undergraduate, and graduate students led by a research faculty member. They entered the field to measure ecological parameters that control the environment of select ecosystems. Over the course of the grant, Professor A. Cohen, of the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of South Carolina, led 16 graduate and 29 undergraduates to the Okefenokee Swamp and Everglades Mangrove Swamp/Marsh Complex. Similarly, Dr. David Freedman (SEER #2), in collaboration with Dr. Fred Molz of the Department of Environmental Engineering and Science at Clemson University, conducted a field exercise to a wetland located at the Cheraw State Park Golf Course in Cheraw, South Carolina.
Matching funds to the U.S. EPA/EPSCoR program provided $5,000 to support the organization and travel of scientists to a Hanse Institute Conference focused on Subterranean Coastal Environments. The objective of the workshop was to identify critical mechanisms and processes of subterranean exchange, and identify methods for quantifying the importance of these processes on local and global scales for both the past and present. Travel support for four faculty and one graduate student was provided.
Nonfederal matching funds also were used to support a field experience for three undergraduate students and one graduate student to the field laboratory of the Baruch Institute at the University of South Carolina. The field laboratory of the Belle W. Baruch Institute is located on a preserved barrier island off the coast of South Carolina. The field exercise was conducted under the direction of Dr. Jim Morris, and students collected plant samples from the salt marsh that are being used to calibrate remotely sensed data.
Throughout the course of the program, the management team maintained financial records for the entire program, prepared the first annual and this final report, and implemented the educational and outreach programs of the SIP as described above.
Journal Articles on this Report : 7 Displayed | Download in RIS Format
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Connolly EL, Guerinot ML. Iron stress in plants. Genome Biology 2002;3(8):1024.1-1024.4. |
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Connolly EL, Fett JP, Guerinot ML. Expression of the IRT1 metal transporter is controlled by metals at the levels of transcript and protein accumulation. The Plant Cell 2002;14(6):1347-1357. |
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Czako M, Marton L. A heartwood pigment in Dalbergia cell cultures. Phytochemistry 2001;57(6):1013-1022. |
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Han KP, Woodin SA, Lincoln DE, Fielman KT, Ely B. Amphitrite ornata, a marine worm, contains two dehaloperoxidase genes. Marine Biotechnology 2001;3(3):287-292. |
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He YK, Sun JG, Feng XZ, Czako M, Marton L. Differential mercury volatilization by tobacco organs expressing a modified bacterial merA gene. Cell Research 2001;11(3):231-236. |
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LaCount MW, Zhang E, Chen YP, Han K, Whitton MM, Lincoln DE, Woodin SA, Lebioda L. The crystal structure and amino acid sequence of dehaloperoxidase from Amphitrite ornata indicate common ancestry with globins. Journal of Biological Chemistry 2000;275(25):18712-18716. |
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Lebioda L, LaCount MW, Zhang E, Chen YP, Han K, Whitton MM, Lincoln DE, Woodin SA. An enzymatic globin from a marine worm -- Brief communications. Nature 1999;401(6752):445. |
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Supplemental Keywords:
education, outreach, field exercise, graduate fellowships, undergraduate research, Strategic Improvement Plan, SIP., Scientific Discipline, Geographic Area, Waste, Water, TREATMENT/CONTROL, Contaminated Sediments, Environmental Chemistry, Remediation, Treatment Technologies, State, Chemistry, Technology, Environmental Engineering, environmental technology, biodegradation, contaminated sediment, remediation technologies, cometabolism, chemical contaminants, catalysts, bioremediation of soils, engineering, halogenated organic contaminants, biotechnology, dehalogenation, South Carolina (SC), assessment methods, phytoremediationProgress and Final Reports:
Original AbstractThe perspectives, information and conclusions conveyed in research project abstracts, progress reports, final reports, journal abstracts and journal publications convey the viewpoints of the principal investigator and may not represent the views and policies of ORD and EPA. Conclusions drawn by the principal investigators have not been reviewed by the Agency.