Grantee Research Project Results

Institution Information
Name:	The University of Texas at Austin
Dept:	CACES
Center:	Center for Air, Climate, and Energy Solutions
EPA Region:	6
Street Address:	110 Inner Campus Dr.
City:	Austin
State:	TX
Zip Code:	78712

Associated Project Details for: The University of Texas at Austin

4 Projects listed for this institution:
Grant Number	Grant Title	Project Type	Project Period
R835873	Center for Air, Climate, and Energy Solutions (CACES)	Center	May 1, 2016 through April 30, 2021
R835873C001	Mechanistic Air Quality Impact Models for Assessment of Multiple Pollutants at High Spatial Resolution	Center	May 1, 2016 through April 30, 2021
R835873C002	Air Quality Observatory	Center	May 1, 2016 through April 30, 2021
R835873C004	Air Pollutant Control Strategies in a Changing World	Center	May 1, 2016 through April 30, 2021

112 Additional Projects listed as performed at this location:2224

R822721C529	Environmentally Acceptable Endpoints: Risk Based Remediation Using Bioremediation	Center	February 1, 1996 through August 1, 1999
R822721C569	Treatment and Product Recovery: Supercritical Water Oxidation of Nylon Monomer Manufacturing Waste	Center	September 1, 1998 through August 31, 1999
R822721C626	Catalytic Hydroprocessing of Chlorinated Organics	Center	January 1, 1997 through September 30, 2000
R822721C630	Microbial Cometabolism of Recalcitrant Chemicals in Contaminated Air Streams	Center	September 1, 1998 through August 31, 1999
R822721C645	Development and Evaluation of an Integrated Model to Facilitate Risk-Based Corrective Action at Superfund Sites	Center	September 1, 1997 through August 31, 2000
R822721C651	Adjustable Biopolymer Chelators for Cadmium, Lead and Mercury	Center	September 1, 1998 through September 1, 1999
R822721C679	Regeneration/Reactivation of Carbon Adsorbents by Radio Frequency (RF) Induction Heating	Center	September 1, 1998 through August 31, 1999
R826694C626	Catalytic Hydroprocessing of Chlorinated Wastes	Center	September 1, 2000 through August 31, 2004
R826694C629	Biofiltration of BTEX in Petroleum-Contaminated Soil Remediation Off-Gas	Center	September 1, 2000 through August 31, 2004
R826694C630	Microbial Cometabolism of Recalcitrant Chemicals in Contaminated Air Streams	Center	September 1, 2000 through August 31, 2004
R826694C645	Development and Evaluation of an Integrated Model to Facilitate Risk-Based Corrective Action at Superfund Sites	Center	September 1, 2000 through August 31, 2004
R826694C651	Adjustable Biopolymer Chelators for Cadmium, Lead, and Mercury Remeidation	Center	September 1, 2000 through August 31, 2004
R826694C679	Regeneration and Reactivation of Carbon Adsorbents by Radio Frequency Induction Heating	Center	September 1, 2000 through August 31, 2004
R826694C722	The Effects of an Oily-Phase on VOC Emissions from Industrial Wastewater	Center	September 1, 2000 through August 31, 2004
R826694C724	Mercury Removal from Stack Gas by Aqueous Scrubbing	Center	September 1, 2000 through August 31, 2004
R826694C725	Transport, Fate and Risk Implications of Environmentally Acceptable Endpoint Decisions	Center	September 1, 2000 through August 31, 2004
R828598C002	Hollow Fiber Membrane Bioreactors for Treating Water and Air Streams Contaminated with Chlorinated Solvents	Center	September 1, 2000 through August 31, 2004
R828598C003	Fugitive Emissions of Hazardous Air Pollutants from On-Site Industrial Sewers	Center	September 1, 2000 through August 31, 2004
R828598C004	Biofiltration Technology Development	Center	September 1, 2000 through August 31, 2004
R828598C005	A Risk-Based Decision Analysis Approach for Aquifers Contaminated with DNAPLs	Center	September 1, 2000 through August 31, 2004
R828598C006	In-Situ Remediation for Contaminated Soils Using Prefabricated Vertical Drains	Center	September 1, 2000 through August 31, 2004
R828598C027	Kaolinite Sorbent for the Removal of Heavy Metals from Incinerated Lubricating Oils	Center	September 1, 2000 through August 31, 2004
R828598C722	The Effects of an Oily-Phase on VOC Emissions from Industrial Wastewater	Center	September 1, 2000 through August 31, 2004
R828598C724	Mercury Removal from Stack Gas by Aqueous Scrubbing	Center	September 1, 2000 through August 31, 2004
R828598C725	Transport, Fate and Risk Implications of Environmentally Acceptable Endpoint Decisions	Center	September 1, 2000 through August 31, 2004
R828598C799	Simultaneous Water Conservation/Recycling/Reuse and Waste Reduction in Semiconductor Manufacturing	Center	September 1, 2000 through August 31, 2004
R828598C801	Building Defined Mixed Cultures To Biodegrade Diverse Mixtures Of Chlorinated Solvents	Center	September 1, 2001 through August 31, 2002
R828598C802	Engineering of Nanocrystal Based Catalytic Materials for Hydroprocessing of Halogenated Organics	Center	September 1, 2000 through August 31, 2004
R828773	Hazardous Substance Research Center–South and Southwest	Center	October 1, 2001 through September 30, 2006
R829458	Consortium for Estuarine Ecoindicator Research for the Gulf of Mexico (CEER-GOM)	Center	December 1, 2001 through November 30, 2005
R829458C005	Individual Level Indicators: Reproductive Function in Estuarine Fishes	Center	December 1, 2001 through November 30, 2005
R829480	Hazardous Substance Research Center/South and Southwest	Center	October 1, 2001 through September 30, 2005
R831276C007	Compact Nephelometer System for On-Line Monitoring of Particulate Matter Emissions	Center	December 1, 2003 through November 30, 2004
R831276C009	Linear Polymer Chain and Bioengineered Chelators for Metals Remediation	Center	December 1, 2003 through November 30, 2004
R831276C010	Treatment of Perchlorate Contaminated Water Using a Combined Biotic/Abiotic Process	Center	December 1, 2003 through November 30, 2004
R831276C011	Rapid Determination of Microbial Pathways for Pollutant Degradation	Center	December 1, 2003 through November 30, 2004
R835569	Center for Reinventing Aging Infrastructure for Nutrient Management (RAINmgt)	Center	September 1, 2013 through August 31, 2018
R835602	Water Innovation Network for Sustainable Small Systems (WINSSS)	Center	August 1, 2014 through July 31, 2017
R835872	Regional Air Pollution Mixtures: The past and future impacts of emissions controls and climate change on air quality and health	Center	December 1, 2015 through November 30, 2020
R835872C004	A Causal Inference Framework to Support Policy Decisions by Evaluating the Effectiveness of Past Air Pollution Control Strategies for the Entire United States	Center	December 1, 2015 through November 30, 2020
R835950	A Sustainable Center for Crowd-Sourced Water Infrastructure Modeling	Center	September 1, 2016 through August 31, 2021
X832317	Texas Joint Center for Air Quality	Center	September 1, 2005 through August 31, 2008
F07A20355	Surface Complexation Model to Describe Competitive Arsenic Adsorption onto Iron Oxides	Fellowship	January 1, 2007 through January 1, 2010
F07B20468	Evaluating the Impact of Brush Clearing on Recharge to a Karst Aquifer	Fellowship	January 1, 2007 through January 1, 2009
F08A10194	System Level Implications of Flexible CO₂ Capture Operation	Fellowship	January 1, 2008 through December 31, 2008
F13A10018	Mitigating the Role of Buildings in the Environmental Impact of the Energy Supply Chain	Fellowship	August 1, 2014 through August 1, 2016
F13B20374	Managing Nitrosamines in Amine Scrubbing for Post-Combustion Carbon Capture	Fellowship	May 13, 2014 through May 13, 2016
F13D10740	Infant Inhalation Exposure to Indoor Air Pollutants while Sleeping and Crawling	Fellowship	August 1, 2014 through August 1, 2016
F5D10695	Interactions between thyroid and corticosteroid systems during the early life history of an estuarine dependent fish: A possible target for endocrine disruption by atrazine	Fellowship	August 31, 2005 through June 1, 2008
F6A20041	The Effects of Sediment Capping on Mercury Methylation	Fellowship	September 1, 2006 through September 1, 2009
F6C40888	The Next Generation of VMT Reduction Programs	Fellowship	September 1, 2006 through September 1, 2008
FP916320	Sustainable Yield for Aquifers: Management Using Hydrogeologic and Economic Evaluation Methods With Hybridized Decision Support Systems	Fellowship	January 1, 2004 through December 31, 2006
FP916398	Worldwide Traffic, Impact, and the Evolutionary Trajectory of Invasive Populations in the Little Fire Ant Wasmannia auropunctata	Fellowship	January 1, 2004 through December 31, 2004
FP916407	Simultaneous Precipitation and Flocculation in Water Treatment: Modeling and Experiments	Fellowship	January 1, 2004 through December 31, 2006
FP916412	Cometabolism of Trihalomethanes by Nitrifying Biofilters Under Drinking Water Treatment Plant Conditions	Fellowship	January 1, 2004 through December 31, 2006
FP917114	Investigating Surface Water Quality Impacts on Groundwater Quality Under Varying Flow Conditions in the Barton Springs Segment of the Edwards Aquifer, Central Texas	Fellowship	August 25, 2010 through August 24, 2013
FP917176	Calcined Clays as a Low Emission Cement Substitute	Fellowship	August 1, 2010 through July 31, 2013
FP917180	Removal of Aldehydes from Indoor Air: Elucidating Adsorption Mechanisms, Modeling Competitive Adsorption, and Predicting Removal in Gas-phase Air Cleaners	Fellowship	September 1, 2010 through August 31, 2013
FP917284	Enzymatic Wastewater Treatment: An Innovative Technology for Removing Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products	Fellowship	September 1, 2011 through August 31, 2014
FP917330	Porous Materials in Indoor Environments: Investigating Transport and Reaction Mechanisms of Pollutant Removal to Porous Indoor Surfaces	Fellowship	August 1, 2011 through July 31, 2014
FP917475	Particulate Reactive Oxygen Species: Prevalence and Health Effects	Fellowship	August 27, 2012 through August 26, 2015
FP917487	Assessing the Effects of Hypoxia on Fish Population Ecology Using Elements and Isotopes	Fellowship	August 29, 2012 through August 28, 2015
FP917814	Effects of Ocean Acidification on Algal and Invertebrate Assemblages In Crustose Coralline Algae Dominated Kelp Systems	Fellowship	September 1, 2016 through August 31, 2018
GF9502150	Intrinsic Bioremediation: Process Demonstration and Evaluation	Fellowship	August 15, 1995 through
GF9502211	Land Use and Natural Butterfly Populations: Assessing Anthropogenic Effects	Fellowship	August 1, 1995 through
U915135	Central Texas Cave Speleothems as Tracers of Long-Term Variations in Groundwater Chemistry and Flow Routes: Implications for Regional Paleoclimate	Fellowship	September 1, 1997 through September 1, 2000
U915323	Development and Demonstration of a Hollow Fiber Membrane Bioreactor for Cometabolic Degradation of Chlorinated Solvents	Fellowship	August 26, 1998 through July 1, 2001
U915396	Liquid Phase Mass Transfer in Spray Contactors	Fellowship	September 1, 1998 through August 1, 2001
U915731	The Roles of Calcium-dependent Signal Transduction and Environmental Xenobiotic Chemicals in Modulating Ovarian Steroidogenesis in Sciaenids	Fellowship	August 1, 2000 through August 1, 2003
U915887	The Contribution of Chlorine Radicals to Tropospheric Ozone Formation in Southeastern Texas	Fellowship	January 1, 2001 through May 1, 2003
U915929	In-home Formation of Halogenated Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs): Implications for Human Exposure and Indoor Air Quality	Fellowship	January 1, 2001 through January 1, 2002
U916014	Biological Activated Carbon: Understanding the Role of Cometabolism in Extending Service Life and Improving Process Performance	Fellowship	January 1, 2001 through January 1, 2003
U916148	The Simultaneous Absorption of Sulfur Dioxide, Chlorine, and Mercury	Fellowship	January 1, 2003 through January 1, 2006
R821268	NMR Imaging of Biofilm Growth in Porous Media	Grant	September 1, 1995 through August 1, 1999
R823335	VOC Emissions from Sewers Process Drains and Drop Structures	Grant	October 1, 1995 through September 1, 1998
R824310	How People Respond to Contingent Valuation Questions	Grant	October 1, 1995 through April 30, 1998
R824740	A Framework to Compare Polices for Source Reduction	Grant	October 1, 1995 through September 30, 1997
R824799	Water and Sustainable Development in the Binational Lower Rio Grande/Bravo Basin	Grant	November 1, 1995 through January 1, 1998
R825241	Measurement and Source Apportionment of Human Exposures to Toxic Air Pollutants in the Minneapolis - St. Paul Metropolitan Area	Grant	February 10, 1997 through February 9, 2000
R825355	Developing a New Monitoring Tool for Benthic Organisms in the Gulf of Mexico: Loss of Genetic Variability in Meiofaunal Populations	Grant	December 1, 1996 through November 30, 1998
R825405	A Multi-Scale Investigation of Mass Transfer Limitations in Surfactant-Enhanced Aquifer Remediation	Grant	October 1, 1996 through October 31, 1999
R826125	Reproductive and endocrine effects of o,p'-DDT, an environmental estrogen, and p,p'-DDE, an antiandrogen in male and female Atlantic croaker during critical periods of their reproductive life history cycles	Grant	October 1, 1997 through September 30, 2000
R826168	Innovations in Vapor Phase Bioreactor Design	Grant	December 1, 1997 through November 30, 2000
R826170	Role of Microbial Metabolism and Cometabolism in Treating Mixtures of Biodegradable and Nonbiodegradable Chemicals in Granular Activated Carbon Columns	Grant	December 1, 1997 through November 30, 2000
R827116	Theoretical Evaluation of the Interfacial Area between Two Fluids in Soil	Grant	October 1, 1998 through September 30, 2001
R827399	Evaluation of Endocrine-Distrupting Chemical Effects Across Multiple Levels of Biological Organization: Integration of Physiology Behavior and Population Dynamics In Fishes	Grant	October 1, 1997 through September 30, 1999
R827677	Regional Ecological Resource Assessment of the Rio Grande Riparian Corridor: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Understanding Anthropogenic Effects on Riparian Communities in Semi-arid Environments	Grant	September 1, 1999 through August 31, 2002
R827928	Hazardous Air Pollutant Mixtures: Measuring and Modeling Complex Exposure	Grant	December 20, 1999 through December 19, 2002
R827930	Municipal Sewers as Sources of Hazardous Air Pollutants	Grant	January 2, 2000 through December 31, 2002
R828208	Development of Life Cycle Inventory Modules for Semiconductor Processing	Grant	April 1, 2000 through March 31, 2003
R829009	Riverbank Filtration Effectiveness in an Arid Environment	Grant	September 1, 2001 through August 31, 2004
R830399	Induction of Plant Allergens by Environmental Agents	Grant	December 1, 2002 through November 30, 2005
R831452	Impacts of Climate Change and Land Cover Change on Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds (BVOCs) Emissions in Texas	Grant	November 1, 2003 through October 31, 2006
R831837	Integrating Land Use, Transportation, and Air Quality Modeling	Grant	September 16, 2004 through September 15, 2007
R831839	Predicting the Relative Impacts of Urban Development Policies and On-Road Vehicle Technologies on Air Quality in the United States: Modeling and Analysis of a Case Study in Austin, Texas	Grant	December 20, 2004 through December 19, 2007
R832515 aka R832098	Current-Use Pesticides: Assessing Exposure and Spermatoxicity	Grant	September 1, 2005 through August 31, 2010
R833839	Aptamer Capture and Optical Interferometric Detection of Cyanobacteria	Grant	June 1, 2008 through April 30, 2011
R834384	Expert-Based Development of a Site-Specifc Standard in CO2 Sequestration Monitoring Technology	Grant	December 1, 2009 through November 30, 2012
R834580	Analytical Strategies for Assessing Cumulative Effects of Chemical and Nonchemical Stressors	Grant	June 1, 2010 through May 31, 2014
R835163	High Information Content Toxicity Screening Using Mouse and Human Stem Cell Models of Endocrine Development and Function	Grant	March 1, 2012 through February 28, 2015
R835176	Fluoride, DBP Precursors, and Particles: Simultaneous Removal with Aluminum Salts a Solution for Small Drinking Water Systems	Grant	December 1, 2011 through November 30, 2014
R835191	Response of Regional Air Quality to Severe Drought	Grant	June 1, 2012 through May 31, 2015
R835216	Analysis of Dynamic, Flexible NOx and SO2 Abatement from Power Plants in the Eastern U.S. and Texas	Grant	June 1, 2012 through May 31, 2016
R835638	Healthy High School PRIDE (Partnership in Research on InDoor Environments)	Grant	February 1, 2015 through January 31, 2019
R840466	Estimating the missing benefits of water quality by nesting recreation demand and hedonic modeling	Grant	September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025
R840482	Building Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change in Alaska Native Communities by Reducing Health Risks from Water Infrastructure, Quality, and Security	Grant	September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025
R840607	Consortium On Disinfection by-products and Opportunistic pathogens in Water Networks (CO-DOWN)	Grant	August 1, 2023 through July 31, 2026
R840617	Protecting Water Quality during Enhanced Aquifer Recharge: A Geochemical Compatibility Assessment of Various Water Sources and Co-located Aquifers in the United States	Grant	October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2026
SU831877	Zero Net Energy Homes Project	Grant	September 30, 2004 through May 30, 2005
SU835075	Use of Vermicomposting to Reduce Solid Waste Accumulations, Alleviate Flooding and Further Sustainable Development in Slum Settlements in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	Grant	August 15, 2011 through August 14, 2012
SU836762	Nano-Silver and Zeolite for Ceramic Water Filters	Grant	November 1, 2016 through October 31, 2017
X3832351	Benchmarking Sustainability Engineering Education	Grant	January 12, 2005 through January 22, 2007

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