Virginia Water Resources Research Center

Competitive Grants Program

Under the Competitive Grants Program, the Water Center considers proposals for funding up to $20,000/year and project durations of 1 to 2 years.

The call for proposals is issued in late February with a submittal deadline of early April. Successful proposals are announced by late May. The starting date for funded projects is July 1, with an ending date of June 15 of the following year.

Proposals are considered in all areas of water resources. Submitted proposals are reviewed and ranked by peers and a subset of members from the Water Center’s Technical Advisory Panel. Review criteria include intellectual merit, innovation, likelihood of success, broader impacts on Virginians, and alignment with state or regional water resources challenges.

A list of the recent recipients of the Water Center's competitive grants is available here.

  • For more information please e-mail Dr. Kevin McGuire at kevin.mcguire@vt.edu or call (540) 231-6017
  • Proposal guidelines and current Call for Proposals: click here

 

Recent Competitive Grants recipients

2008

  • David T. Gauthier, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, The College of William and Mary: "Ecology of Mycobacterial Striped Bass Pathogens in Water and Sediments of the Rappahannock River, VA"
  • Zhiyou Wen, Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech: "Molecular Assessment of the Fate of Pathogenic Organisms in Dairy Manure"

2007

  • Paul Bukaveckas, Department of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University: "Nutrient Retention in Tributary Streams of the James River"
  • Madeline Schreiber, Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech: "The Role of Epikarst in Controlling Recharge, Water Quality and Biodiversity in Karst Aquifer Systems in Virginia"

2006

  • Brooks Crozier, Roanoke College: "DNA-Sequence Based Micorbial Source Tracking (MST) of Enterococcus spp"
  • Howard Kator, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, The College of William and Mary: "Detection of Norovirus in Sewage Effluent and Its Persistence in Estuarine Water Using Real-Time PCR"
  • Nancy Love, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech: "Evaluating the Extent of Pollution-Induced Antibiotic Resistance in Environmental Bacterial Strains"

2005

    • Marc Edwards, Via Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech: "Effect of Chloramines on Lead Leaching, Bacterial Growth and Non-Uniform Copper Corrosion"
    • Katharine Knowlton, Department of Diary Science, Virginia Tech: "Fate of Endocrine Disrupting Compounds in Dairy Manure During Storage and Treatment"
    • Madeline Schreiber, Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech: "Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Recharge in Karst Agricultural Watersheds"
    • Peter van Veld, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, The College of William and Mary: "Biomarker Responses in Eastern Mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) During Life-Cycle Exposure to Biosolids"

    2004

    • Howard Kator, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, The College of William and Mary: "Role of Sediment as a Source and Reservoir of Fecal Coliforms with Regard to Shellfish TMDL in Virginia"
    • William Knocke, Via Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech: "Development of Soluble Manganese Sorptive Contractors for Enhancing Potable Water Treatment Practices"
    • Michal Kowalewski, Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech: "Industrial Mercury Pollution of the North Fork Holston River (Virginia): New Non-Invasive Strategies for Assessing Anthropogenic Deterioration of Freshwater Ecosystems"

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